Quite a GentlemanBickers, 1878 - 72 pagina's |
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adverbs affectionate HARRY answer awfully Bible Blank's counting-house boastful bred people talk chaff CHANCERY LANE charity clergyman coarse course cultivated dear boy DEAR HARRY DEAR MOTHER decent and gracious dress duty ELZEVIR PRESS PRINTED Eton face father feel fellow friends gentility gentle gentlefolks gentlemanlike Goethe head heart Honour or Truth huffy humbug ideas jolly jolly fellow kind lady laugh learning lest living long letter manners Maxwell mean Mercy mind nature ness never noisy noses not-quite gentleman ourselves over-hard upon trifling perhaps personal remarks petual gaiety plain pleasant poor profession proverb question receive visitors respect rude sallies of levity sixth sense snob society sometimes sort of selfishness sort of things speak superior suppose sure sympathy tell thought toadies told ugliness unselfish vulgarity WILKINS AND VERNON wish wonder words write young دل
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Pagina 65 - ... do not like you, Dr. Fell. "The reason why, I cannot tell "But this I know, and know full well, "I do not like you, Dr. Fell...
Pagina 28 - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety ; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter, which is the more freely indulged, as his wit is not of the splendid or ambitious kind, but consists in easy scapes and sallies of levity which make sport, but raise no envy.
Pagina 57 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life.
Pagina 58 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Pagina 57 - In beauty, that of favour, is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour.
Pagina 33 - I say all this to you my friend ? truely that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, and I am still soe full of it, that I cannot forbeare expressing my thoughts to you.
Pagina 18 - Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion.
Pagina 59 - We are told that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. My heart belonged, not to Timothy, but to that poor wretched brother of his that has just ended his days with a rope round his neck — aye, to Peter Dudgeon. You know it: old Eli Hawkins, the man to whose pulpit you succeeded, though...
Pagina 44 - I have seen enough to be contented in, and thankful for, the state of life in which it has pleased God to place me. " We hoped to have seen you on your way back from Elleray. I believe you did not get the ballad of the 'Devil and the Bishop,' which Hartley transcribed for you.