Memoirs of Thomas HolcroftH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1816 - 390 halaman ...First published in 1816. In Ê»The World's classicsÊ3⁄4 they were first published in 1926. |
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Halaman vii - How much he had it at heart," says the editor of the manuscript, which was given to the world some years after the death of the author, " may, however, be inferred from the extraordinary pains he then took to make some progress in it. He told his physicians that he did not care what severity of treatment he was subjected to, provided he could live six months longer to complete what he had begun. By dictating a word at a time, he succeeded in bringing it down to his fifteenth year. When the clearness,...
Halaman 184 - Gray, Warmly fenced both in back and in front." " He will fasten his locks, And will threaten the stocks, Should he ever more find me in want, Well-a-day!
Halaman 5 - The task at first I found difficult, till the idea one day suddenly seized me of catching all the sounds I had been taught from the arrangement of the letters ; and my joy at this amazing discovery was so great, that the recollection of it has never been effaced. After that, my progress was so rapid, that it astonished my father. He boasted of me to every body ; and that I might lose no time, the task he set me was eleven chapters a day in the Old Testament. I might indeed have deceived my father...
Halaman 157 - Not so good as von of our parish porpers ! And you ! You purtend to compare yourself to the united houses of the Peckhams and the Pringles ! Your family indeed ! Yourn ! Vhere's your settlement ? Yourn ! Vus'nt my great uncle, Mr. Peter Pringle, the cheese-monger of Cateaton-street, a major in the Train Bands before you vus born, or thought of ? Edmund [Aside.] So, so ! I'm too late ! [Aloud] Let me intreat your ladyship — Lady P.
Halaman 90 - Boys and the Frogs, which entirely turned the tide of popular opinion in her favour. What must the feelings of the same mother have been, when this child (afterwards Mrs.
Halaman 165 - It was in the preceding year that Mr. Holcroft met with the severest blow that fortune had yet inflicted on him, the death of his son. This unhappy event has been sometimes misrepresented by persons unacquainted with the character and feelings of Mr. Holcroft : the best answer to these misrepresentations will be to state the circumstances as they happened, without any other comment. William Holcroft was his only son, and favourite child, and this very circumstance perhaps led to the catastrophe,...
Halaman 38 - It was no difficult matter to meet with John Watson ; he was so attentive to stable-hours, that, except on extraordinary occasions, he was always to be found. Being first careful to make myself look as much like a stable-boy as I could, I came at the hour of four, (the summer hour for opening the afternoon stables, giving a slight feed of oats, and going out to evening exercise,) and ventured to ask if I could see John Watson. The immediate answer was in the affirmative. John Watson came, looked...
Halaman 45 - Nothing; perhaps,' can exceed the enjoyment of a stableboy's breakfast: what, then, may not be said of mine, who had so long been used to suffer hunger, and so seldom found the means of satisfying it ?"
Halaman 70 - having its own somewhat peculiar bias, circumstances had rather concurred to disgust me than to invite my stay. I despised my companions for the grossness of their ideas, and the total absence of every pursuit in which the mind appeared to have any share. It was even with sneers of contempt that they saw me intent on acquiring some small portion of knowledge; so that I was far from having any prompter either as a friend or a rival.*' He was at this time nearly sixteen.
Halaman 297 - I have not put my morality sufficiently in action [false again, the law part excepted], that probability is not quite enough regarded [perhaps not], and that, to make Trevor so suddenly a wealthy man is entirely in the novel style [true ; blamable]. The following are the concluding remarks :