The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 27

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F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature
 

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Page 245 - But suppose the poor would not serve them?" " Then they must starve." " And so poor people are permitted to live, only upon condition that they wait upon the rich ?" "Is that a hard condition'? or if it were, they will be rewarded in a better world than this V " Is there a better world than this ?" " Is it possible you do not know there is?
Page 346 - After-reflection made her check those worldly transports as unfit for the present solemn occasion. But, alas ! to her earth and William were so closely united that till she forsook the one she could never cease to think without the contending passions of hope, of fear, of joy, of love, of shame and of despair on the other.
Page 325 - Some persons, I know, estimate happiness by fine houses, gardens, and parks, — others by pictures, horses, money, and various things wholly remote from their own species : but when I wish to ascertain the real felicity of any rational man, I always inquire whom he has to love. If I find he has nobody — or does not love those he has — even in the midst of all his profusion of finery and grandeur, I pronounce him a being in deep adversity.
Page 349 - The piercing shriek which accompanied these words prevented their being heard by part of the audience, and those who heard them thought little of their meaning, more than that they expressed her fear of dying. Serene and dignified as if no such exclamation had been uttered, William delivered the fatal speech ending with,
Page 253 - You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
Page 351 - And she acknowledges the justice of her sentence, not only in respect of the crime for which she suffers, but in regard to many other heinous sins of which she has been guilty, more especially that of once attempting to commit a murder upon her own helpless child, for which guilt she now considers the vengeance of God has overtaken her, to which she is patiently resigned, and departs in peace and charity with all the world, praying the Lord to have mercy on her parting soul.
Page 247 - But the rest are massacred?" The dean answered, "The number who go to battle unwillingly, and by force, are few ; and for the others, they have previously sold their lives to the state." "For what?" " For soldiers' and sailors
Page 219 - ... side with a peer. But yet, in the midst of this powerful occasion for rejoicing, Henry, whose heart was particularly affectionate, had one grief which eclipsed all the happiness of his new life ; — his brother William could not play on the fiddle ! consequently, his brother William, with whom he had shared so much ill, could not share in his good fortune. One evening, Henry, coming home from a dinner and concert at the Crown and Anchor found William, in a very gloomy and peevish humour, poring...
Page 250 - The dean's wife being a fine lady — while her husband and his friend pored over books or their own manuscripts at home, she ran from house to house, from public amusement to public amusement ; but much less for the pleasure of seeing than for that of being seen.
Page 246 - He would call compliments, lies — reserve he would call pride — stateliness, affectation — and for the words war and battle, he constantly substituted the word massacre. " 'Sir', said William to his father, one morning as he entered the room, 'do you hear how the cannons are firing, and the bells ringing?' ' 'Then I dare say", cried Henry, 'there has been another massacre'.

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