The Moneyed Man, Or, The Lesson of a Life, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1841 - 211 pages |
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Abraham Newlands admiration Alderman Arthur Conway attach Augusta Maynard bank banking-house Beddington Park beneath better Blackfriars Bridge blind goddess Borough Botany Bay called character Charter House clerk confess Conway cottage dear Mark death delighted diamonds doubt dress duty ejaculated Epsom excited exclaimed eyes face Fanny Hartopp fashionable father feel fellow flatter Fleet Prison fortune girl give gratify Guy Welford hand happy Harmer Hawkwood head heard heart Heaven honor hurried Jacobins Lady late laugh less living London look Lord marriage means mind monomania morning mother nature never Neville night occasion partner party perhaps person pickpocket Poole poor Edith possession pounds present Prince of Wales recollect render replied seems Simmons smile sort strange sure talents tell thing thought tion Tom Neville Tycho voice vulgar wealth whole wish young
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Page 155 - Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman Shall e'er have power upon thee." Then fly, false thanes, And mingle with the English epicures: The mind I sway by and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
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Page 73 - Barrington," said Alderman Trecothick, in his usual patronising and pompous manner, "allow me, sir, to inquire why, with your education and talents, and gentlemanly deportment, you ever betook yourself to the low and disreputable calling of a pickpocket?" "Will you allow me to ask, Mr. Alderman, why I was ever born a poor man with a rich man's tastes? Why I ever found myself without a shilling in my pocket while I wanted to spend a guinea? Had you been placed in my situation, and I in your's, will...
Page 73 - Will you allow me to ask, Mr. Alderman, why I was ever born a poor man with a rich man's tastes? Why I ever found myself without a shilling in my pocket while I wanted to spend a guinea? Had you been placed in my situation, and I in your's, will you, can you undertake to say that we should not have changed fates as well as fortunes? Not you! you rich fellows are none of you half grateful enough for the guineas which, by removing temptation, have saved some of you from the hulks and Botany Bay, and...
Page 59 - Join the lullaby above — But, oh ! more sweet than these Is the voice of one we love. 'Tis sweet to wake in June To the skylark's matin lay; To hear the thrush at noon Pouring music from the spray ; At eve to lend our ear To the wooing of the dove; But naught so sweet and clear As the voice of one we love. Although...
Page 13 - These just observations may, perhaps, be further illustrated by the following notices. Dr. J. Warton has informed the world that many of our poets have been handsome. This, certainly, neither concerns the world, nor the class of poets. It is trifling to tell us that Dr. Johnson was accustomed " to cut his nails to the quick.
Page 183 - there are natural and simple pleasures, of whose existence I had no previous knowledge ; pleasures which a pauper may command, and which are far more exquisite than all the sensual indulgences of the wealthiest voluptuary.