Crotchet CastleT. Hookham, 1831 - 300 頁 |
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第 13 頁
... nights in enforcing a trial of the virtues of his elder wine . The young lady's personal appear- ance , consequently , formed a very advanta- geous contrast to that of her quondam lover , whose physiognomy the intense anxieties of his ...
... nights in enforcing a trial of the virtues of his elder wine . The young lady's personal appear- ance , consequently , formed a very advanta- geous contrast to that of her quondam lover , whose physiognomy the intense anxieties of his ...
第 16 頁
... to be descended lineally from the illus- trious Gilbert Folliott , the eminent theo- logian , who was a Bishop of London in the twelfth century , whose studies were inter- rupted in the dead of night by the Devil ; 16 CROTCHET CASTLE .
... to be descended lineally from the illus- trious Gilbert Folliott , the eminent theo- logian , who was a Bishop of London in the twelfth century , whose studies were inter- rupted in the dead of night by the Devil ; 16 CROTCHET CASTLE .
第 17 頁
Thomas Love Peacock. rupted in the dead of night by the Devil ; when a couple of epigrams passed between them ; and the Devil , of course , proved the smaller wit of the two . * * The devil began : ( he had caught the bishop musing on ...
Thomas Love Peacock. rupted in the dead of night by the Devil ; when a couple of epigrams passed between them ; and the Devil , of course , proved the smaller wit of the two . * * The devil began : ( he had caught the bishop musing on ...
第 20 頁
... night- cap extinguished her wick : she is a greasy subject , and would have burned like a short mould . " The reverend gentleman exhaled his grievance without looking to the right or to the left ; at length , turning on his pivot , he ...
... night- cap extinguished her wick : she is a greasy subject , and would have burned like a short mould . " The reverend gentleman exhaled his grievance without looking to the right or to the left ; at length , turning on his pivot , he ...
第 46 頁
... night from London , and that he had the good sense to bring with him a basket of lobsters . Sir , I wish you a good morning . The stranger having returned the reve- rend gentleman's good morning , resumed his sketch , and was intently ...
... night from London , and that he had the good sense to bring with him a basket of lobsters . Sir , I wish you a good morning . The stranger having returned the reve- rend gentleman's good morning , resumed his sketch , and was intently ...
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第 217 頁 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
第 295 頁 - He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed for the fruit; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of his steed; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill. "Sure never...
第 172 頁 - My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting ; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice, no book — it is a plaything.
第 294 頁 - DID you hear of the curate who mounted his mare, And merrily trotted along to the fair? Of creature more tractable none ever heard; In the height of her speed she would stop at a word, And again with a word, when the curate said Hey, She put forth her mettle, and galloped away.
第 32 頁 - The sentimental against the rational, the intuitive against the inductive, the ornamental against the useful, the intense against the tranquil, the romantic against the classical; these are great and interesting controversies, which I should like, before I die, to see satisfactorily settled.
第 296 頁 - To the best-loved maid. Through the forests wild, O'er the mountains lonely, They were never weary Honour to pursue : If the damsel smiled Once in seven years only, All their wanderings dreary Ample guerdon knew. Now one day's caprice Weighs down years of smiling. Youthful hearts are rovers, Love is bought and sold : Fortune's gifts may cease, Love is less beguiling ; Wiser were the lovers, In the days of old.
第 24 頁 - DR. FOLLIOTT My principles, sir, in these things are, to take as much as I can get, and to pay no more than I can help. These are every man's principles, whether they be the right principles or no. There, sir, is political economy in a nutshell.
第 5 頁 - Castle, and determined to hand down to posterity the honours of Crotchet of Crotchet. He found it essential to his dignity to furnish himself with a coat of arms, which, after the proper ceremonies (payment being the principal), he obtained, videlicet: Crest, a crotchet rampant in A sharp: Arms, three empty bladders, turgescent, to show how opinions are formed; three bags of gold, pendent, to show why they are maintained; three naked swords, tranchant, to show how they are administered; and three...
第 119 頁 - If I drink water while this doth last, May I never again drink wine : For how can a man, in his life of a span, Do anything better than dine ? We'll dine and drink, and say if we think That anything better can be ; And when we have dined, wish all mankind May dine as well as we.
第 136 頁 - ... ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant ; where they had poetry, we have cant ; where they had patriotism, we have cant ; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant. And, sir, to show my contempt for cant in all its shapes, I have adorned my house with the Greek Venus, in all her shapes, and am ready to fight her battle against all the societies that ever were instituted for the...