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... Novel . 8vo , Paper , 25 cts . Henry Esmond . A Novel . 8vo , Paper , 25 cents . Lovell the Widower . 25 cents . A Novel . Engravings . 8vo , Paper The Newcomes . A Novel . Engravings . 8vo , Cloth , $ 2 00 . Pendennis . A Novel ...
... Novel . 8vo , Paper , 25 cts . Henry Esmond . A Novel . 8vo , Paper , 25 cents . Lovell the Widower . 25 cents . A Novel . Engravings . 8vo , Paper The Newcomes . A Novel . Engravings . 8vo , Cloth , $ 2 00 . Pendennis . A Novel ...
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... ( more tempt- ing still to sons of Eve ) the pretty girls with their apple cheeks , who laughed and prattled round the fountain ? What was the book ? Do you suppose it was Livy , or the Greek grammar ? NOVEL 12 ROUNDABOUT PAPERS .
... ( more tempt- ing still to sons of Eve ) the pretty girls with their apple cheeks , who laughed and prattled round the fountain ? What was the book ? Do you suppose it was Livy , or the Greek grammar ? NOVEL 12 ROUNDABOUT PAPERS .
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William Makepeace Thackeray. it was Livy , or the Greek grammar ? NOVEL that you were reading , you No ; it was a lazy ... novels without love or talking , or any of that sort of nonsense , but contain- ing plenty of fighting , escaping ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. it was Livy , or the Greek grammar ? NOVEL that you were reading , you No ; it was a lazy ... novels without love or talking , or any of that sort of nonsense , but contain- ing plenty of fighting , escaping ...
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... novels every night when he was not at whist ? As for that lazy , naughty boy at Chur , I doubt whether he will like novels when he is thirty years of age . He is taking too great a glut of them now . He is eating jelly until he will be ...
... novels every night when he was not at whist ? As for that lazy , naughty boy at Chur , I doubt whether he will like novels when he is thirty years of age . He is taking too great a glut of them now . He is eating jelly until he will be ...
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... novels cloy on thee . I wonder , do novel writers themselves read many novels ? If you go into Gunter's , you don't see those charming young ladies ( to whom I present my most respectful compli- ments ) eating tarts and ices , but at ...
... novels cloy on thee . I wonder , do novel writers themselves read many novels ? If you go into Gunter's , you don't see those charming young ladies ( to whom I present my most respectful compli- ments ) eating tarts and ices , but at ...
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Página 290 - God bade him ; each honest in his life ; just and irreproachable in his dealings ; dear to his friends; honored by his country; beloved at his fireside. It has been the fortunate lot of both to give incalculable happiness and delight to the world, which thanks- them in return with an immense kindliness, respect, affection. It may not be our chance, brother scribe, to be endowed with such merit, or rewarded with such fame.
Página 297 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
Página 296 - HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN EUROPE AND THE EAST: being a Guide through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Austria, Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, Turkey. Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and Great Britain and Ireland. By W. PEMBROKE FETRIDGE. With a Map embracing Colored Routes of Travel in the above Countries, and a new Railroad Map. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Large 12mo, Cloth, $3 00; Leather Tucks, $3 50. rpLEANOR'S VICTORY. A Novel. By the Au•^ thor of " Aurora Floyd" (In...
Página 280 - Washington's name: he came amongst us bringing the kindest sympathy, the most artless, smiling goodwill. His new country (which some people here might be disposed to regard rather superciliously) could send us, as he showed in his own person, a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, easy, witty, quiet; and, socially, the equal of the most refined Europeans.
Página 98 - We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
Página 292 - MOTLEY'S DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange.
Página 160 - My dear ! I am going away for a few days to Brighton. Here are all the keys of the house. You may open every door and closet, except the one at the end of the oak-room opposite the fireplace, with the little bronze Shakespeare on the mantel-piece (or what not).
Página 284 - ... society, a delightful example of complete gentlemanhood; quite unspoiled by prosperity; never obsequious to the great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as some public men are forced to be in his and other countries); eager to acknowledge every contemporary's merit; always kind and affable...
Página 280 - It would have been easy to speak otherwise than he did: to inflame national rancors, which, at the time when he first became known as a public writer, war had just renewed: to cry down the old civilization at the expense of the new: to point out our faults, arrogance, short-comings, and give the republic to infer how much she was the parent state's superior. There are writers enough in the United States, honest and otherwise, who preach that kind of doctrine. But the good Irving, the peaceful, the...
Página 282 - I had seen many pictures of his house, and read descriptions of it, in both of which it was treated with a not unusual American exaggeration. It was but a pretty little cabin of a place ; the gentleman of the press who took notes of the place, whilst his kind old host was sleeping, might have visited the whole house in a couple of minutes.