The Life of Charles Lever, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1879 |
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... fancy , old Monsoon's son went over to Brussels , when I was there , for the express purpose of shooting me , in duello of course , for having exaggerated too grossly , as he thought , the gallant major's sentiments on a variety of ...
... fancy , old Monsoon's son went over to Brussels , when I was there , for the express purpose of shooting me , in duello of course , for having exaggerated too grossly , as he thought , the gallant major's sentiments on a variety of ...
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... old Lever tell the story a hundred times , will have more to say about it later on . + The entire scene was a fancy sketch , see vol . i . , p . 144 . VISIT TO MISS EDGEWORTH . 29 a serenade , playing 28 LIFE OF CHARLES LEVER .
... old Lever tell the story a hundred times , will have more to say about it later on . + The entire scene was a fancy sketch , see vol . i . , p . 144 . VISIT TO MISS EDGEWORTH . 29 a serenade , playing 28 LIFE OF CHARLES LEVER .
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... fancy ; what he says in print must be taken cum grano . Before the weather broke he strongly praised the picturesque gran- deur of the lakes , which far surpass , he said , those of Cumberland ; and told Mr. Hayman that he was wild ...
... fancy ; what he says in print must be taken cum grano . Before the weather broke he strongly praised the picturesque gran- deur of the lakes , which far surpass , he said , those of Cumberland ; and told Mr. Hayman that he was wild ...
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... fancy they were greatly over - rated . After the first zest of composition ( which was generally at a white heat , for I wrote 380 lines of one between break- fast and dinner ) I never thought anything of them myself . " Lever invited ...
... fancy they were greatly over - rated . After the first zest of composition ( which was generally at a white heat , for I wrote 380 lines of one between break- fast and dinner ) I never thought anything of them myself . " Lever invited ...
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... fancy they detect some deep sense of obligation to the man , and infer that he is your patron or your protector , that he has lent you money , or dragged you out of some awkward scrape , and that you are bound to treat him with all ...
... fancy they detect some deep sense of obligation to the man , and infer that he is your patron or your protector , that he has lent you money , or dragged you out of some awkward scrape , and that you are bound to treat him with all ...
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Page 157 - One of the most genial spirits I ever met,' he wrote, ' his conversation is like summer lightning— brilliant, sparkling, but harmless. In his wildest sallies I never heard him give utterance to an unkind thought.
Page 318 - Kilgobhin, and few will read without emotion his allusion to the fact that they were ' written in breaking health and broken spirits. The task that was once my joy and pride, I have lived to find associated with my sorrows. It is not, then, without a cause I say, 'I hope this effort may be my last.
Page 312 - ... very tangible advantages, too — I do not think the present occupants make, the house as pleasant as their fathers did, and for the very simple reason that they never try. "Indifferentism is the tone of the day. No one must be eager, pleased, displeased, interested, or anxious about anything. Life is to be treated as a tiresome sort of thing, but which is far too much beneath one to be thought of seriously — a wearisome performance, which good manners require you should sit out, though nothing...
Page 283 - The agent that acts so favourably with others goes wrong with me. Something or other has been omitted in my temperament, or something has been mixed up with it that ought not to have been there. I cannot tell which. Whatever it be, it renders me incapable of practising that sage and well-regulated economy by which other men secure themselves against difficulties, and " show a surplus" in their-annual balance-sheet.
Page 410 - Thackeray paid Lever the very handsome compliment of saying that he would rather have written Lorrequer's English version of the student song, The Pope he leads a Happy Life, than anything he had himself hitherto done in literature.
Page 228 - With him we encounter no repetitions; all is varied, novel, and interesting as nature herself; and this great master of humour moves us to tears or laughter without the semblance of an effort on his part; and as for those "inexpensive guests...
Page 63 - ... Cheapside, scarce yet the gayer spark Achieves the Sunday triumph of the Park ; Scarce yet you see him, dreading to be late, Scour the New Road and dash through Grosvenor Gate ; Anxious — yet timorous too — his steed to show, The hack Bucephalus of Rotten Row.
Page 417 - No second-rate imitator can write in that way ; no coarse scene-painter can charm us with an allusion so delicate and perfect. But what bitter satire, what relentless dissection of diseased subjects ! Well, and this, too, is right, or would be right, if the savage surgeon did not seem so fiercely pleased with his work. Thackeray likes to dissect an ulcer or an aneurism ; he has pleasure in putting his cruel knife or probe into quivering, living flesh. Thackeray would not like all the world to be...
Page 67 - Cultivate not only the corn-fields of 284 285 the mind, but the pleasure-grounds also,' •was a motto of Dr. Whately's. This cultivation was often a labor rather than a luxury. His hilarity was not always the result of happiness. ' Gay spirits,' he once said, 'are always spoken of as a sign of happiness, though every one knows to the contrary. A cockchafer is never so lively as when a pin is stuck through his tail ; and a hot floor makes Bruin dance.
Page 271 - All the way from the hotel to the Rotunda (a mile), I had to contend against the stream of people who were turned away. When I got there, they had broken the glass in the payboxes, and were offering freely for a stall. Half of my platform had to be taken down, and people heaped in among the ruins. You never saw such a scene.