Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins, Volumen1R. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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... dinner . For any one tired of the conventionality and friction of London life , a dinner at Knowl Hill with Mortimer Collins and his wife was a thing to be re- membered with pleasure through many years . Byron said he hated " the author ...
... dinner . For any one tired of the conventionality and friction of London life , a dinner at Knowl Hill with Mortimer Collins and his wife was a thing to be re- membered with pleasure through many years . Byron said he hated " the author ...
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... dinner we go on the lawn , and sit and smoke a cigarette , while our host tells us how the nightingales sing in the lime avenue which runs down one side of his “ quiet lawn , a triangle scalene ; " how they keep him company in the ...
... dinner we go on the lawn , and sit and smoke a cigarette , while our host tells us how the nightingales sing in the lime avenue which runs down one side of his “ quiet lawn , a triangle scalene ; " how they keep him company in the ...
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... dinner . " He would swing along at an easy pace , seeming to make no exertion , but we found it difficult to keep up with him . His powers of digestion seemed equally good , and the fault which critics ( dyspeptic perhaps ) found with ...
... dinner . " He would swing along at an easy pace , seeming to make no exertion , but we found it difficult to keep up with him . His powers of digestion seemed equally good , and the fault which critics ( dyspeptic perhaps ) found with ...
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... dinner will do it , especially if you bring from town a friend from White's or Brooks's who dwells within the pale of exclusive society , and who will , like Theodore Hook , know a man in the country whom he couldn't possibly know in ...
... dinner will do it , especially if you bring from town a friend from White's or Brooks's who dwells within the pale of exclusive society , and who will , like Theodore Hook , know a man in the country whom he couldn't possibly know in ...
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... dinner , that " the question arose whether those who wrote much were happy " : — 66 Why in the world should the question arise ? Is the course that bright - winged Pegasus flies To be measured by means mechanic ? There's a power and ...
... dinner , that " the question arose whether those who wrote much were happy " : — 66 Why in the world should the question arise ? Is the course that bright - winged Pegasus flies To be measured by means mechanic ? There's a power and ...
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Página 156 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Página 188 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Página 250 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Página 154 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 58 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 248 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Página 87 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 33 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 140 - RED o'er the forest peers the setting sun. The line of yellow light dies fast away That crowned the eastern copse : and chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Página 230 - Thou printest all — and sellest some — My Murray. Upon thy table's baize so green The last new Quarterly is seen, — But where is thy new Magazine, My Murray ? Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine — The " Art of Cookery,