Essays, Tales, Etc., EtcA. Hall, 1862 - 204 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquainted Alpaca Amadei appearance beautiful become Buondelmonte called Cambridgeshire character Colley Cibber consider Coventry Crick daughter dinner Doctor Elkanah emigration England eyes fancy father feel felt fens flannel Forever-never give gold habits hands Hanwell Asylum heard heart Holcroft Huddersfield Imelda Jennings Jervis Julia kind knew labour Lady Pearson lectures Lincolnshire look manufacture Maria market days marriage matter ment mind Miss Mitford Molière Monroe morning never Never-forever night occupation ordinary passed pauper perhaps Persian person pieces poor produced profit railway mania remarks reply require ribbons river Nene rivers Witham Rochdale Rodenstein scene seat seen Sir John Smith sufficient Sydney Smith tell thing Thomas Holcroft thought tion told town truth Union whilst wife Wisbech wish woman wool write young
Popular passages
Page 184 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 129 - By day its voice is low and light; But in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes along the vacant hall, Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber-door, — "Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 184 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 129 - Half-way up the stairs it stands,. And points and beckons with its hands From its case of massive oak, Like a monk, who, under his cloak, Crosses himself, and sighs alas ! With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Forever — never ! Never — Forever...
Page 184 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 130 - Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of death and days of birth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Page 130 - Forever — never ! Never — forever! " There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told,— " Forever — never! Never — forever!
Page 132 - Horatio— heavens, what a transition ! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene ; old things were done away and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to the prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.
Page 183 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 126 - Gaffer Gray. And warm thy old heart with a glass. " Nay, but credit I've none, And my money's all gone ; Then say how may that come to pass ? Well-a-day!" Hie away to the house on the brow, Gaffer Gray ; And knock at the jolly priest's door.