Crotchet CastleT. Hookham, 1831 - 300 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 22 筆
第 4 頁
... thought of the English , answered : " they hanna ower muckle sense , but they are an unco braw people to live amang ; " which would be a very good story , if it were not rendered apocryphal , by the incredible circumstance of the ...
... thought of the English , answered : " they hanna ower muckle sense , but they are an unco braw people to live amang ; " which would be a very good story , if it were not rendered apocryphal , by the incredible circumstance of the ...
第 8 頁
... thought , modes of filling up his time that accorded with his Caledonian instinct . The inborn love of disputation , which the excitements and engagements of a life of business had smothered , burst forth through the calmer surface of a ...
... thought , modes of filling up his time that accorded with his Caledonian instinct . The inborn love of disputation , which the excitements and engagements of a life of business had smothered , burst forth through the calmer surface of a ...
第 12 頁
... thought for her faithless Strephon , her melancholy was any thing but green and yellow it was as genuine white and red as occupation , mountain air , thyme - fed mutton , thick : cream , and fat bacon , could make it : 12 CROTCHET CASTLE .
... thought for her faithless Strephon , her melancholy was any thing but green and yellow it was as genuine white and red as occupation , mountain air , thyme - fed mutton , thick : cream , and fat bacon , could make it : 12 CROTCHET CASTLE .
第 14 頁
... occult signification of mortgage , ) and even to one or two sprigs of nobility , who thought * " Let him take castles who has ne'er a groat . " POPE , ubi suprà . that the lining of a civic purse would super- induce 14 CROTCHET CASTLE .
... occult signification of mortgage , ) and even to one or two sprigs of nobility , who thought * " Let him take castles who has ne'er a groat . " POPE , ubi suprà . that the lining of a civic purse would super- induce 14 CROTCHET CASTLE .
第 30 頁
... thought worth knowing , and dare not show your noses be- fore the civilized world in the practice of any one art in which they were excellent . Mo- dern Athens , sir ! the assumption is a per- sonal affront to every man who has a ...
... thought worth knowing , and dare not show your noses be- fore the civilized world in the practice of any one art in which they were excellent . Mo- dern Athens , sir ! the assumption is a per- sonal affront to every man who has a ...
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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...