The Mysterious Man: A NovelNewby, 1844 |
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Side 166
... Figgins's family - Figgins is a etiahd goceh - you don't mind the smell of the shop - its gone off since he gave up tade . ” " Not a ha'porth if I like the lady , and the tarms of the marriage contract . " " Ah , well , Miss Figgins is ...
... Figgins's family - Figgins is a etiahd goceh - you don't mind the smell of the shop - its gone off since he gave up tade . ” " Not a ha'porth if I like the lady , and the tarms of the marriage contract . " " Ah , well , Miss Figgins is ...
Side 168
... only at the moment when the cork flies out that its worth having . The Count went home to the Cross Keys after the happiest evening that he had spent in London . CHAPTER IX . THE FAMILY ' FIGGINS ' . Some 168 THE MYSTERIOUS MAN .
... only at the moment when the cork flies out that its worth having . The Count went home to the Cross Keys after the happiest evening that he had spent in London . CHAPTER IX . THE FAMILY ' FIGGINS ' . Some 168 THE MYSTERIOUS MAN .
Side 169
A Novel Frederick Chamier. CHAPTER IX . THE FAMILY ' FIGGINS ' . Some men are born great , Some men achieve greatness , And some men have greatness thrust upon them . SHAKSPEARE . 6 THE family Figgins ' dwelt in one of those questionable ...
A Novel Frederick Chamier. CHAPTER IX . THE FAMILY ' FIGGINS ' . Some men are born great , Some men achieve greatness , And some men have greatness thrust upon them . SHAKSPEARE . 6 THE family Figgins ' dwelt in one of those questionable ...
Side 171
... Figgins . " One of La Fontaine's fables gives us a picture of a foolish stag , who prided himself upon his branching antlers , but hated himself on account of his thick legs - his thick legs , however carried him safely through a hard ...
... Figgins . " One of La Fontaine's fables gives us a picture of a foolish stag , who prided himself upon his branching antlers , but hated himself on account of his thick legs - his thick legs , however carried him safely through a hard ...
Side 173
... Figgins was a somewhat short , some- what fat , common place looking person , witha matter of fact countenance , a bald pate , and a pair of ragged , wiery grey whiskers . Mrs. F. was a lady of very ample dimensions , with a red face ...
... Figgins was a somewhat short , some- what fat , common place looking person , witha matter of fact countenance , a bald pate , and a pair of ragged , wiery grey whiskers . Mrs. F. was a lady of very ample dimensions , with a red face ...
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Allan Netherby anxiety Ashburnham aunt BEN BRADSHAWE better bright Brooks Bundle called Cheltenham circumstances coach Count Bundledoff cried dandy dear sir deuce distress doctor door Edwin Latimer Euston Square excited exclaimed face famale Fanny Latimer feel fellow felt fortune gazed gentleman Godwin half hand heard heart hinted honor indignation Jacob Jenkinson Julian kape Kensington Gardens kinson knew Latimer's laugh lawyer London look Lucy Atherly Lucy's Madam Marks's matter mean mind miserable Miss Figgins Miss Latimer Misther morning moss rose mysterious never night O'Sullivin old Marks Oxfordshire party poor girl poor Lucy pretty quoth seemed Silvereel Smith and Stubbs soon sort spirit Spofforth stairs street sure sure as fate tell thing thought tion took turned vereel walk window wish woman words young lady zounds
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Side 168 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Side 37 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Side 127 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Side 108 - Jack! when delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension!
Side 210 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Side 197 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Side 269 - God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood...
Side 173 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next in majesty ; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Side 26 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which seek through the world is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home!
Side 213 - And where's my son Fred?" asked His Lordship. "I am not your son's keeper, my Lord," said I. "No! By the bye," inquired His Lordship, "how is this? I wanted to call upon you about it. I never heard of such a thing, in the whole course of my life! What the Devil can you possibly have to say against my son Fred?" "Good heavens! my Lord, you frighten me! I never recollect to have said a single word against your son, as long as I have live'd. Why should I?