Peveril of the Peak, Volume 3Archibald Constable and Company ... and Hurst, Robinson, and Company, London., 1822 - Great Britain - 320 pages |
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Page 108 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 222 - GAY'S Trivia. JULIAN PEVERIL, half leading, half supporting Alice Bridgenorth, had reached the middle of Saint James's Street ere the doubt occurred to him which way they should bend their course. He then asked Alice whither he should conduct her, and learned, to his surprise and embarrassment, that...