Some account of my cousin Nicholas, by Thomas Ingoldsby. To which is added, The rubber of life (by Dalton Ingoldsby). |
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... hope not ; but -there has been an action , a severe one , and it is as well to be prepared – - Mrs. Stafford's worst fears were confirmed ; she fainted , and was carried from the room . In the confusion of the moment , no one thought of ...
... hope not ; but -there has been an action , a severe one , and it is as well to be prepared – - Mrs. Stafford's worst fears were confirmed ; she fainted , and was carried from the room . In the confusion of the moment , no one thought of ...
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... again , his only son ! -- the beloved of his heart , -the de- light of his eyes ; -the youthful scion destined to transmit the blood of the Bullwinkles down to the remotest posterity ; the last , sole hope 62 MY COUSIN NICHOLAS .
... again , his only son ! -- the beloved of his heart , -the de- light of his eyes ; -the youthful scion destined to transmit the blood of the Bullwinkles down to the remotest posterity ; the last , sole hope 62 MY COUSIN NICHOLAS .
第 63 頁
Richard Harris Barham. to the remotest posterity ; the last , sole hope of an honourable name ! -True , indeed , Nick was , certainly , rather too bad — rather too much de- voted to pleasantry , and of a disposition re- quiring the curb ...
Richard Harris Barham. to the remotest posterity ; the last , sole hope of an honourable name ! -True , indeed , Nick was , certainly , rather too bad — rather too much de- voted to pleasantry , and of a disposition re- quiring the curb ...
第 81 頁
... hope to ob- tain permission to secede one hour before the appointed time . This unlucky circumstance , however , he found means to obviate , by placing his name on the sick - list , or " pricking ager , " as he technically termed it ...
... hope to ob- tain permission to secede one hour before the appointed time . This unlucky circumstance , however , he found means to obviate , by placing his name on the sick - list , or " pricking ager , " as he technically termed it ...
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... myself of the little services which I had been fortunate enough to render my god- dess the night before , by calling to " hope she had experienced no serious ill effects from her alarm . " I was , besides , in a MY COUSIN NICHOLAS . 95.
... myself of the little services which I had been fortunate enough to render my god- dess the night before , by calling to " hope she had experienced no serious ill effects from her alarm . " I was , besides , in a MY COUSIN NICHOLAS . 95.
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alarm Amelia appeared arrival Augustus Stafford Baronet believe Broughton Captain chaise Charles Stafford Clara Colonel companion Coryton countenance course Cousin Nicholas cried dear door doubt Drench effect endeavoured exclaimed expression eyes father favour feelings felt Fortescue Frank gazed glance Grosvenor Square Hanbury hand Hazeldine head heard heart Heaven honour hope hour immediately INGOLDSBY LEGENDS instant Isaaks James Arbuthnot Jermyn Street Julia lady late length less letter London Long-tail'd Coat looked Lord Manningham Major Faulkland means ment mind Miss Kitty Miss Magge Miss Pyefinch morning mother never occasion old gentleman once party paused perhaps person Pozzlethwayte present proceeded rendered replied returned Russell Square scarcely seemed Sherborne Sir Oliver Sir Oliver's smile Smithson Smith soon Stafford stood THOMAS INGOLDSBY thought Thugg tion tone turned Uncle uncon Underdown Hall whole words young
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第 88 頁 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
第 248 頁 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
第 231 頁 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
第 137 頁 - Where gates impregnable, and coercive chains, In durance strict detain him, till, in form Of money, Pallas sets the captive free. Beware, ye debtors! when ye walk, beware, Be circumspect; oft...
第 218 頁 - I'll tell thee what, my friend, He is a very serpent in my way ; And wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread He lies before me : dost thou understand me ? Thou art his keeper.
第 252 頁 - I give as they are found in the corrected edition of his works, published after his death. In Dodsley's collection the stanza ran thus : — ' Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Whate'er his -various tour has been, May sigh to think how oft he found His warmest welcome at an inn.
第 223 頁 - This is the place, the centre of the grove ; Here stands the oak, the monarch of the wood. How sweet and solemn is this midnight scene The silver moon, unclouded, holds her way Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets...
第 33 頁 - I was so weak as to remain insensible to his merit, and even to look upon these sprightly sallies with some degree of anger and indignation. I have little doubt but that I must have appeared to him a very dull dog, and should in all probability have soon incurred his supreme contempt, but for an event which, I have since had reason to imagine, changed in some degree the nature of his feelings toward me.
第 51 頁 - ... direction. Becoming every moment more eager to relieve himself from so disgraceful and inconvenient an adjunct as that which now encumbered and annoyed his rear, he at length took the resolution of starting off at score, and soon deviated so much from his usually rectilinear mode of progression as to convey his unfortunate rider to the edge of a large sewer, into which all the filth and drainings of the Hall stables, with other not less noisome concomitants, eventually flowed.
第 201 頁 - Where, mindful of the nymph, whose wanton eye Transfix'd his soul, and kindled amorous flames, Chloe, or Phillis, he each circling glass Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals, and small acid tiff, (Wretched repast!) my meagre corpse sustain: Then solitary walk, or doze at home In garret vile, and with a warming...