The History of Henry Esmond, 第 1 卷J.M. Dent, 1898 |
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asked bade beauty better brought called Captain Castle Chelsey child Church coach Colonel court cried daughter Dick Doctor Tusher Dowager eyes face Father Holt fond Francis Frank French friends gentlemen grief hand happy Harry Esmond Harry thought Harry's hath head heard heart Heaven Henry Hexton honour horses Jesuit kind King's kinsman kiss knew Lady Castlewood Lady's Ladyship laugh little Harry live London look Lord Castlewood Lord Marlborough Lord Mohun Lord Viscount Lord's Lordship madam mamma marry Mistress Beatrix mother never night papa patron periwig play poor pretty priest Prince Prince of Orange prison quarrel rode Sark says Harry says my Lord secret seemed small-pox smile spoke sword talk tears Thomas Esmond tion told took Trix twas village Walcote Westbury whilst widow wife woman wood words Worksop young Esmond
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第 85 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 297 頁 - ... idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you — follows your memory with secret blessing — or precedes you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis...
第 331 頁 - ... yet those of the army, who knew him best and had suffered most from him, admired him most of all: and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.
第 2 頁 - Roman shape, but what more than a man for Madame Maintenon, or the barber who shaved him, or Monsieur Fagon, his surgeon ? I wonder shall History ever pull off her periwig and cease to be courtridden ? Shall we see something of France and England besides Versailles and Windsor? I saw Queen Anne at the latter place tearing down the 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...
第 85 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.
第 2 頁 - I would have History familiar rather than heroic: and think that Mr. Hogarth and Mr. Fielding will give our children a much better idea of the manners of the present age in England, than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence.
第 8 頁 - ... end of the gallery ; and, coming back to the lad, with a look of infinite pity and tenderness in her eyes, she took his hand again, placing her other fair hand on his head, and saying some words to him, which were so kind, and said in a voice so sweet, that the boy, who...
第 85 頁 - I went into the room where his body lay; and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa; for.
第 301 頁 - She was a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyelashes were dark : her hair curling with rich undulations, and waving over her shoulders ; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine ; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they might be for a goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was...
第 91 頁 - If the lady looked forward — as what fond woman does not ? — towards the future, she had no plans from which Harry Esmond was left out ; and a thousand and a thousand times, in his passionate and impetuous way, he vowed that no power should separate him from his mistress ; and only asked for some chance to happen by which he might show his fidelity to her. Now, at the close of his life, as he sits and recalls in tranquillity the happy and busy scenes of it, he can think, not ungratefully, that...