 ... they must be shown the door directly. 'We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna, or a Bonaparte. We should not like to be the second Duke of Wellington, nor Charles Dickens, jr. It is a terrible thing, one would say, to a mind of honorable...  Gleason's Monthly Companion - Page 2381874Full view - About this book
 | George William Curtis - Anecdotes - 1853 - 294 pages
...men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero, — i_ they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...out as somebody's son, or uncle, or granddaughter, E as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...a hero, — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonua, or a Bonaparte. We should not like to be the second...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 724 pages
...men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero, — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna, or ¡i Bonaparte. We should not like to be the second Duke of Wellington, nor Charles Dickens, jr. It... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1854 - 294 pages
...men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero, — they must be shown the door directly. 'We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 150 pages
...living men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero,—they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...not like to be the second Duke of Wellington, nor diaries Dickens, Jr. It is a terrible thing, one would say, to a mind of honorable feeling, to be pointed... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 310 pages
...living men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - English essays - 1885 - 310 pages
...living men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
...living men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
 | American essays - 1900 - 496 pages
...living men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
 | American essays - 1900 - 514 pages
...living men and women because their dead grandfather was a hero — they must be shown the door directly. We should dread to be born a Percy, or a Colonna,...uncle, or granddaughter, as if the excellence were all derived. It must be a little humiliating to reflect that if your great uncle had not been somebody,... | |
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