The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen AnneWilliam Makepeace Thackeray H. Frowde, 1904 - 448 頁 |
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第 16 頁 - ... who never moved but to measure, who lived and died according to the laws of his Court-marshal, persisting in enacting through life the part of Hero; and, divested of poetry, this was but a little wrinkled old man, pockmarked, and with a great periwig and red heels to make him...
第 70 頁 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
第 441 頁 - was not of our laying ; it is not we that invited you. We came to avenge, and not to compass, the dishonor of our family." " Dishonor ! Morbleu, there has been no dishonor," says the Prince, turning scarlet, "only a little harmless playing.
第 271 頁 - I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way, like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again. . Silent receptacle of death ; tranquil depth of calm, out of reach of tempest and trouble ! I felt as one who had been walking below the sea, and treading amidst the bones of shipwrecks.
第 211 頁 - ... and from one of these, a wax candle in her hand, and illuminating her, came Mistress Beatrix — the light falling indeed upon the scarlet ribbon which she A wore, and upon the most brilliant white neck in youthful the world.
第 231 頁 - I have said, this of the godlike in him, that he could see a hero perish or a sparrow fall, with the same amount of sympathy for either. Not that he had no tears: he could always order up this reserve at the proper moment to battle; he could draw upon tears or smiles alike, and whenever need was for using this cheap coin. He would cringe to a shoeblack, as he would flatter a minister or a monarch; be haughty, be humble, threaten, repent, weep, grasp your hand (or stab you whenever he saw occasion)....
第 251 頁 - Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war: In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
第 16 頁 - Park slopes, after her stag-hounds, and driving her one-horse chaise — a hot, red-faced woman, not in the least resembling that statue of her which turns its stone back upon St. Paul's, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser than you and me, though we knelt to hand her a letter or a washhand-basin. Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time ? I am for having her rise up off "her knees, and take a natural posture...
第 443 頁 - I lay this at your feet and stamp upon it : I draw this sword, and break it and deny you ; and, had you completed the wrong you designed us, by Heaven I would have driven it through your heart, and no more pardoned you than your father pardoned Monmouth. Frank will do the same, won't you, cousin...
第 70 頁 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.