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Sketches of Young Gentlemen

By: Charles Dickens

...heriff, that clever little creature Horton, and so on. In the same manner he prefixes Christian names when he mentions actors, as Charley Young, Jemmy... ... to receive the young gentleman’s original impromptu contribution, ‘how very si lent you are! I think you must be in love.’ ‘Love!’ cries the poetic... ...l suddenly fast asleep; and the young gentleman, winking upon us to preserve si lence, won a pair of gloves from each, thereby causing them to wake w...

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Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ure you speak no more than is true. A man may have one of those honourable prefixes to his name, yet be born far from Saint Michael’s Mount.” Mine hos... ... Tressilian from reading them. The tenor of the original ran as follows:— “Si fixum solvas, faciasque volare solutum, Et volucrem figas, facient te vi... ...vas, faciasque volare solutum, Et volucrem figas, facient te vivere tutum; Si pariat ventum, valet auri pondere centum; Ventus ubi vult spirat—Capiat ... ...am pietas, in egenos grata voluntas, Accedunt reliquis annumeranda bonis. Si quod cuncta rapit, rapuit non omnia Lethum, Si quod Mors rapuit, vivida...

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