Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 51Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1862 - Literature |
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... better . I hope he may hear what we think of him in the City . " The " Favourite " did hear of it , and contemptuously remarked that Sir Gresham Lorimer was a meddlesome blockhead , who had better stick to his shop , instead of ...
... better . I hope he may hear what we think of him in the City . " The " Favourite " did hear of it , and contemptuously remarked that Sir Gresham Lorimer was a meddlesome blockhead , who had better stick to his shop , instead of ...
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... better ? " " Why , Sir John Dawes was twelve years older than myself , cried Sir Gresham . " I remember him when I was a boy and dwelling in Bucklersbury . " " Don't refer to that period , I beg of you , Sir Gresham . Sir John's years ...
... better ? " " Why , Sir John Dawes was twelve years older than myself , cried Sir Gresham . " I remember him when I was a boy and dwelling in Bucklersbury . " " Don't refer to that period , I beg of you , Sir Gresham . Sir John's years ...
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... better than that ! " " And what better could he do than follow the business which his father and grandfather have conducted before him ? Zounds ! I'll have none of these fine airs . Tradescant is a son of a trades- man , and ought not ...
... better than that ! " " And what better could he do than follow the business which his father and grandfather have conducted before him ? Zounds ! I'll have none of these fine airs . Tradescant is a son of a trades- man , and ought not ...
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... Better acquainted than her husband with Tradescant's mode of life , Lady Lorimer was not without anxiety about him , but partly deluded by the representations of Captain Chatteris , and blinded by partiality , she persuaded herself his ...
... Better acquainted than her husband with Tradescant's mode of life , Lady Lorimer was not without anxiety about him , but partly deluded by the representations of Captain Chatteris , and blinded by partiality , she persuaded herself his ...
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... better pleased if you had come before . How was it you never wrote to me , or conveyed to me any tidings of your father's decease , or your own existence ? How was I to know I had a nephew or niece if I never heard of them before ...
... better pleased if you had come before . How was it you never wrote to me , or conveyed to me any tidings of your father's decease , or your own existence ? How was I to know I had a nephew or niece if I never heard of them before ...
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Page 45 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Page 45 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?
Page 53 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.
Page 323 - I saw thee seek the sounding shore, Delighted with the dashing roar; Or when the North his fleecy store Drove thro' the sky, I saw grim Nature's visage hoar Struck thy young eye.
Page 313 - ... of the pavement. It is the time when, in summer, between the expired and the not yet relumined kitchen-fires, the kennels of our fair metropolis give forth their least satisfactory odours.
Page 646 - Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you : and lo, I am with you always unto the end of the world.
Page 199 - We walked for miles and miles on dark brown heaths overlooking the Channel, with the Welsh hills beyond, and at times descended into little sheltered valleys close by the sea-side, with a smuggler's face scowling by us, and then had to ascend conical hills with a path winding up through a coppice to a barren top, like a monk's shaven crown...
Page 240 - For the king himself, he seems all good nature, and wishing to satisfy every body ; all his speeches are obliging. I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the leveeroom had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news ; he walks about, and speaks to every body.
Page 192 - Close by on a side-table — not that he drank hard, But because at that day, I hardly need say, The Hong Merchants had not yet invented How Qua, Nor as yet would you see Souchong or Bohea At the tables of persons of any degree : How our ancestors managed to do without tea I must fairly confess is a mystery to me ; Yet your Lydgates and Chaucers Had no cups and saucers ; Their breakfast, in fact, and the best they could get, Was a sort of a...
Page 45 - Johnson, indeed, had thought more upon the subject of acting than might be generally supposed. Talking of it one day to Mr. Kemble, he said, " Are you, sir, one of those enthusiasts who believe yourself transformed into the very character you represent ?" Upon Mr. Kemble's answering — that he had never felt so strong a persuasion himself; " To be sure not, sir (said Johnson) ; the thing is impossible. And if Garrick really believed himself to be that monster, Richard the Third, he deserved to be...