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Pagina 1
... remember what good advice he had given to Pen in former days , how an early wisdom and knowledge of the world had manifested itself in the gifted youth ; how a con- stant course of self - indulgence , such as becomes a gentleman of his ...
... remember what good advice he had given to Pen in former days , how an early wisdom and knowledge of the world had manifested itself in the gifted youth ; how a con- stant course of self - indulgence , such as becomes a gentleman of his ...
Pagina 6
... remember at Drummington , when I was a little girl , in a buff waistcoat and black satin small - clothes . My brother Erith never played as a young man , nor sat up late- he had no health for it ; but my boy must do as everybody does ...
... remember at Drummington , when I was a little girl , in a buff waistcoat and black satin small - clothes . My brother Erith never played as a young man , nor sat up late- he had no health for it ; but my boy must do as everybody does ...
Pagina 17
... remember Lady Agnes , sir , an exceedingly fine woman . But what did she do ? - of course she married her father's man . Why , Mr. Foker sat for Drummington till the Reform Bill , and paid dev'lish well for his seat , too . And you may ...
... remember Lady Agnes , sir , an exceedingly fine woman . But what did she do ? - of course she married her father's man . Why , Mr. Foker sat for Drummington till the Reform Bill , and paid dev'lish well for his seat , too . And you may ...
Pagina 19
... remember his mother coming up . " " You are not a literary man , Foker , " Pen said , laughing , and hooking his arm into his friend's . " You must know I have been writing a novel , and some of the papers have spoken very well of it ...
... remember his mother coming up . " " You are not a literary man , Foker , " Pen said , laughing , and hooking his arm into his friend's . " You must know I have been writing a novel , and some of the papers have spoken very well of it ...
Pagina 29
... remember the many that fail , I do not say deservedly or other- wise , and wholesomely abstain : or if they venture , at least let them do so at their own peril . As for those who have already written novels , this warning is not ...
... remember the many that fail , I do not say deservedly or other- wise , and wholesomely abstain : or if they venture , at least let them do so at their own peril . As for those who have already written novels , this warning is not ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 380 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; the reason why I cannot tell,
Pagina 248 - ... solutions to those come to by our friend. We are not pledging ourselves for the correctness of his opinions, which readers will please to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer being no more answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story: our endeavor is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truthavoiding man.
Pagina 22 - If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Pagina 249 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest...