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Pagina 15
... England of Sir Walter Scott and George the Fourth was a very different nation from that of George the Second , Fielding , Richardson , and Hogarth . After Scott's days came the England of Theodore Hook , young Bulwer , young Disraeli ...
... England of Sir Walter Scott and George the Fourth was a very different nation from that of George the Second , Fielding , Richardson , and Hogarth . After Scott's days came the England of Theodore Hook , young Bulwer , young Disraeli ...
Pagina 24
... England for the English ; nay- " A TRUE - BORN ENGLISHMAN's a contradiction : In speech an irony , in fact a fiction ; A metaphor , invented to express A man akin to all the universe . " In And he tells us , moreover , that if we choose ...
... England for the English ; nay- " A TRUE - BORN ENGLISHMAN's a contradiction : In speech an irony , in fact a fiction ; A metaphor , invented to express A man akin to all the universe . " In And he tells us , moreover , that if we choose ...
Pagina 25
... England , and he laughs and sneers at a strange title of honour . When Peter the Great went to see our House of Lords , a fellow with a porter's knot and a load ran against him and nearly knocked him “ JOHN BULL . ” 25.
... England , and he laughs and sneers at a strange title of honour . When Peter the Great went to see our House of Lords , a fellow with a porter's knot and a load ran against him and nearly knocked him “ JOHN BULL . ” 25.
Pagina 27
... England is England . What are the elements of that power which England holds over other nations ? If there be one test of natural genius universally accepted , it is success ; and if there be one suc- cessful country in the universe for ...
... England is England . What are the elements of that power which England holds over other nations ? If there be one test of natural genius universally accepted , it is success ; and if there be one suc- cessful country in the universe for ...
Pagina 28
... England had as many enemies as he had hairs on his head , no harm could happen to him ; " nor can it , if he keep on the right side of the law , as many rascals know . But if you touch his rights , John will cry out and fight to the ...
... England had as many enemies as he had hairs on his head , no harm could happen to him ; " nor can it , if he keep on the right side of the law , as many rascals know . But if you touch his rights , John will cry out and fight to the ...
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Æsop amongst aquiline Basil Montagu beauty believe Ben Jonson better brain called character Christian classes common crime criminal cruel cursed doubt dream dress eating England English evil eyes face faith feeling fellow fool gentleman GEORGE HICKS give Goodwyn Barmby Greek fire grow handsomely bound happiness HARRISON WEIR heart human hundred Ireland Irish John Bull Jonas Hanway judgment Julius Cæsar King labour ladies lawyers lips live London look Lord matter means memory mind morocco murder nation nature neckerchief never noble nose observation once pawnbroker peace perhaps philosopher Plato poet poor Pope pounds sterling priests punishment rich Samuel Romilly Shakspeare society soldiers soul sure teetotallers tell temperance things thought tion told true truth Utopian whilst wife wise wishes woman women wonderful words writes young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 299 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Pagina 240 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Pagina 5 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
Pagina 95 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Pagina 208 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard - yes!
Pagina 227 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Pagina 252 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Pagina 2 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar...
Pagina 309 - Choice Editions of Choice Books. New Editions. Illustrated by CW Cope, RA, T. Creswick, RA. Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, JC Horsley, ARA. George Hicks. R. Redgrave, RA, C.
Pagina 268 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.