Rosamund Gray: Recollections of Christ's Hospital, Etc. EtcEdward Moxon, 1835 - 356 pages |
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... believe , that thou canst take a perverse pleasure in distorting the brains of us poor mortals . Lunatics ! moonstruck ! Calumny invented , and folly took up , these names . I would hope better things from thy mild aspect and benign ...
... believe , that thou canst take a perverse pleasure in distorting the brains of us poor mortals . Lunatics ! moonstruck ! Calumny invented , and folly took up , these names . I would hope better things from thy mild aspect and benign ...
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... believe , was something of a physiognomist , and thought she could trace in the countenance and manner of Rosamund qualities , which no brother of hers need be ashamed to love . The time was now come , when Elinor was desirous of ...
... believe , was something of a physiognomist , and thought she could trace in the countenance and manner of Rosamund qualities , which no brother of hers need be ashamed to love . The time was now come , when Elinor was desirous of ...
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... believe , Allan , on a second thought , was not very sorry to be spared the awkwardness of introducing two persons to each other , both so dear to him , but either of whom might happen not much to fancy the other . At times , indeed ...
... believe , Allan , on a second thought , was not very sorry to be spared the awkwardness of introducing two persons to each other , both so dear to him , but either of whom might happen not much to fancy the other . At times , indeed ...
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... believe , got little sleep that night . I know not whether joy be not a more troublesome bed - fellow than grief - hope keeps a body very wakeful , I know . Elinor Clare was the best good creature - the least selfish human being I ever ...
... believe , got little sleep that night . I know not whether joy be not a more troublesome bed - fellow than grief - hope keeps a body very wakeful , I know . Elinor Clare was the best good creature - the least selfish human being I ever ...
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... and sang a song about " an old woman clothed in grey , " and said " he did not believe in a devil . " -- Presently he bid us " not tell Allan Clare " - Allan was hanging over him at that very moment , 68 ROSAMUND GRAY .
... and sang a song about " an old woman clothed in grey , " and said " he did not believe in a devil . " -- Presently he bid us " not tell Allan Clare " - Allan was hanging over him at that very moment , 68 ROSAMUND GRAY .
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1st Footman 1st Gent 1st Lady 2d Footman 2d Lady 2d Waiter Allan Clare appetite beautiful Belvil better boys character CHARLES LAMB Christ's Hospital cottage countenance creature curiosity dear death deformity delight dizzard dream Elinor expression eye of mind eyes face fancy feel gentleman Gin Lane girl give grandmother Hamlet hanging happy hath hear heart Hogarth honour human humour images Industry and Idle innocence JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES John Tomkins kind Landlord Lear living look Lord Macbeth Madam maid Margaret Maria Matravis melancholy Melesinda mind mirth Miss Clare moral Mother Damnable nature never old lady Othello passion person physiognomy play pleasure poet poor Rake's Progress ROSAMUND GRAY scene seems servants Shakspeare shew smile sort soul speak spirit suffer sweet Tamburlaine tender thing thought tion Widford WILLIAM ROWLEY woman wonder young
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Page 122 - A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him.
Page 114 - ... between Hamlet and Ophelia there is a stock of supererogatory love (if I may venture to use the expression), which in any great grief of heart, especially where that which preys upon the mind cannot be communicated, confers a kind of indulgence upon the grieved party to express itself, even to its heart's dearest object, in the language of a temporary alienation...
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Page 159 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Page 116 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
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Page 123 - ... living martyrdom that Lear had gone through — the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him. If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy ? As if the childish pleasure of getting his gilt robes and sceptre again could tempt him to act over again his misused station ; as if, at his years, and with...