Jack Hornet; or, The march of intellect, by the author of 'The adventures of an Irish gentleman'. 3 vols. [in 1].R. Bentley, 1845 |
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... fortune came in with it as a make - weight . You are now rich ; and Louisa and I are poor : were I to call a baronet Tom , Jack , or Harry , some inso- lent coxcomb would call me as impertinent a fellow as himself ; and as I never allow ...
... fortune came in with it as a make - weight . You are now rich ; and Louisa and I are poor : were I to call a baronet Tom , Jack , or Harry , some inso- lent coxcomb would call me as impertinent a fellow as himself ; and as I never allow ...
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... fortune of 250l . per annum . he spent in Germany , the only country where nobility ( he fancied himself a noble ) meets with proper respect , and punctilious attention to precedence and etiquette ; and he would have remonstrated with ...
... fortune of 250l . per annum . he spent in Germany , the only country where nobility ( he fancied himself a noble ) meets with proper respect , and punctilious attention to precedence and etiquette ; and he would have remonstrated with ...
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... up to town , to see some of his distant relations , and seek what a title and a tolerable fortune might attain . was not a marriage suitable to his rank that It he sought , for in a great measure he was JACK HORNET . 11.
... up to town , to see some of his distant relations , and seek what a title and a tolerable fortune might attain . was not a marriage suitable to his rank that It he sought , for in a great measure he was JACK HORNET . 11.
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... fortune has not smiled , he attributed his present position , and his father's disappointment , to the injustice and ingratitude of society ; and , blind to his follies and absurdities , he did not consider that he himself had been the ...
... fortune has not smiled , he attributed his present position , and his father's disappointment , to the injustice and ingratitude of society ; and , blind to his follies and absurdities , he did not consider that he himself had been the ...
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... fortune ; and if young men who have received a polished and a worldly education cannot pass through the crucible of prosperity without decomposition , it might be feared that one whose knowledge of society never extended beyond a ...
... fortune ; and if young men who have received a polished and a worldly education cannot pass through the crucible of prosperity without decomposition , it might be feared that one whose knowledge of society never extended beyond a ...
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第 198 頁 - Ha, you gods ! why this / what this, you gods / Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads: This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accurs'd ; Make the hoar leprosy ador'd ; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation With senators on the bench...
第 7 頁 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?
第 131 頁 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
第 217 頁 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
第 92 頁 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
第 46 頁 - Castalio, you must go along with me. And see Monimia. Cast. Sure, my lord but mocks me : Go see Monimia ! Pray, my lord, excuse me ; And...
第 250 頁 - tis a busy, talking world, That with licentious breath blows like the wind, As freely on the palace as the cottage.
第 115 頁 - Tis plain enough he was no such; We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it; As being loth to wear it out. And therefore bore it not about, Unless on holy-days, or so, As men their best apparel do.
第 133 頁 - Nora's gown for me, That floats as wild as mountain breezes, Leaving every beauty free To sink or swell as Heaven pleases. Yes, my Nora Creina, dear, My simple, graceful Nora Creina, Nature's dress Is loveliness — The dress you wear, my Nora Creina.
第 286 頁 - I'm ne'er so blest as when I hear thy vows, And listen to the language of thy heart.