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Mrs. Lirripers Lodgings

By: Charles Dickens

...ays “Sophy what do you seriously think of my helping you away to New South Wales where it might not be noticed?” Nor did I ever repent the money which...

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The Gentleman of Fifty and the Damsel of Nineteen

By: George Meredith

... And I: ‘The girl must be studied. The family is good. While Charles is in Wales, you must have her at Dayton. She laughs rather vacantly, don’t you t...

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The Bickerstaff- Partridge Papers

By: Jonathan Swift

...t brother. v Yonge Symnele, etc. By Symnele is meant the pretended Prince of Wales, who, if he offers to attempt anything against England, shall misca...

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Underwoods

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...he faithfu’ French, an’ twa-three mair; The auld prezentor, hoastin’ sair, Wales out the portions, An’ yirks the tune into the air Wi’ queer contortio...

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Under the Storm or Steadfasts Charge

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...vehement outcry of “God save the King! God save the 51 Yo n g e Prince of Wales!” Everyone thronged after him, and Stead- fast had a hard struggle t... ...rue and faithful to King and church what- ever might betide. The Prince of Wales had long since moved away, indeed there were reports that the plague ... ...tience, you seem as if you were making ready for some guest, the Prince of Wales at least!” said Emlyn, on Saturday night. Patience smiled a sweet lit... ...they had then been much more boyish. It was when he had seen the Prince of Wales going to the Cathedral on Christmas Day, in the midst of all his plum...

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Sketches of Young Gentlemen

By: Charles Dickens

...M OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES, AND LIKEWISE THE YOUNG LADIES RESI DENT IN THE ISLES OF GUERNSEY,...

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The Point of View

By: Henry James

...ill- iam and the Czar of Russia, about Lord Beaconsfield and the Prince of Wales. I used to get so tired of their Mumbo- Jumbo of a Bismarck, of his s...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...a guinea a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life... ...d money he broke away entirely from his home by exchanging the solitude of Wales for the greater wilderness of London. Failing there to raise money on... ...istorian; one of his chief works is the Itinerarium Cambrica, or Voyage in Wales. 47 2 QUARTERING: De Quincey’s derivation of this word in his footnot...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

..., earl of March, and placed both under the nominal charge of the Prince of Wales, a youth of a few years older. Unjust as was the detention, it had be... ...but King Harry had learnt the art of war as a boy, first under Hotspur, in Wales; nor doth he love that northern fashion of ours of keeping up feud fr... ...was for the King of Castille, that same Peter for whom the Black Prince of Wales fought, and of whom such grew- some tales were told. The pretty princ... ...ad heeded appearances as little as of old when roughing it with Hotspur in Wales; but now his dress was of the most royal. On his head was a small gre... ...t me have him to hold up to my brave fellows in the court!’ ‘The Prince of Wales?’ said Catherine. ‘You never spake of my bringing him.’ ‘If I spake n...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...lasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years minister... ...ssing the violated equi- librium to our feelings, we subscribed throughout Wales to extort six horses from the astonished innkeepers, most of whom dec... ...nce or distress. A century and a half ago such a Lady Carbery was in South Wales, at the “Golden Grove;” now such another Lady Carbery was in central ... ...a weekly allowance, which would have enabled me to live in any district of Wales, either North or South; for Wales, both North and South, is (or at an... ... the people that it was “sin- ful” to charge less than three shillings. In Wales, meantime, I suffered grievously from want of books; and fancying, in... ...art, I had the unpardonable folly to quit the deep tranquillities of North Wales for the uproars, and perils, and the certain miseries, of London. I h... ... Manx half-pennies, which lately I had con- tinually seen current in North Wales, bearing for their heral- dic distinction three human legs in armor, ... ...tles to consid- eration. Dr. Cyril Jackson had been tutor to the Prince of Wales (George IV.); he had repeatedly refused a bishopric; and that, perhap... ...sions,” a thousandth part of the sufferings I under- went in London and in Wales; partly because the misery was too monotonous, and, in that respect, ...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...t fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmon or Cader Idris in Wales, like Skiddaw or Helvellyn in England, constitutes a central object o... ... be ready for sunrise—a common practice with tourists both in Switzerland, Wales, Cumberland, &c.; but, as all must see who take the trouble to reflec... ...miles after leaving Shrewsbury, somewhere about Oswestry, it entered North Wales; a stage farther brought us to the celebrated vale of Llangollen; and... ...the New Forest, or the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. The mountains of Wales range at about the same elevation as those of Northern England; three... ... round them. Of this, however, I was not aware at the time of first seeing Wales; although the striking effect from the op- posite form of the Cumberl... ...eam much beyond a brook. This is cer- tainly a conspicuous defect in North Wales, considered as a region of fine scenery. The few lakes I have since b... ...ncy of Anglesea; which, again, is a little insu- lated dependency of North Wales. The packets on this sta- tion were at that time lucrative commands; ...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... over the hill-slopes, and past the waterfall, and down the gullies where the land drains off into the ocean, the scattered quarrymen and fishermen in... ...s, he had left it where it was. It was the kind and wholesome face I have made mention of as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to se... ...but I doubt if they will ever do their Master’s service half so well, in all the time they last, as the Heavens have seen it done in this bleak spot u... ... the good ship Nameless swarming up and down the scale as if they had never swarmed up and down the rigging. This done, we threw our whole power into ... ...f the Great Salt Lake suits well for raising indigo. Uncommercial. I am told that these people now on board are principally from the South of England?... ...upil teachers rather tawdrily dressed, than any other classes of young women. I noticed, among many little ornaments worn, more than one photograph-br... ...ts in any of its phases. It is religiously believed at Titbull’s that people push more than they used, and likewise that the foremost object of the po...

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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: H. G. Wells

...e English Channel, eastward to the crossing at the Straits and westward to Wales, to ferries over the Severn, and southwestward into Devon and Cornwal... ...ready, and then, still lamer, about whether Monmouthshire is in England or Wales, silence fell again. The silence lengthened, assumed a significance, ... ...nia….” “I’ll take all reasonable care.” “Is your wife at home!” “She is in Wales with her people. But the household is well trained. I can manage.” “G...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ange of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the north side of it... ...ligently surveying his ground;— returned for his family, who were still in Wales but ready to move, in the beginning of August; took them immedi- atel... ...aims and acts. She sets out, with her daughter and two boys, for a Tour in Wales to-morrow morning. Her talk of you is always most affectionate; and f... ...bot, son, I think, of another Ilchester lady, and brother of the Talbot of Wales, but himself a man of large fortune, and known for photogenic and oth...

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King Henry Vi, Part Iii

By: William Shakespeare

...bout 1591 1592) DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY : the Sixth. EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES : his son. (PRINCE ED WARD:) KING LEWIS XI : King of France. (KING...

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King Henry Vi, Part Ii

By: William Shakespeare

...ird, my lords, had seven sons: The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales; The second, William of Hatfield, and the third, Lionel Duke of Cla...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...gency would then settle (ipso facto of that incapacity) upon the Prince of Wales; overlooking altogether the case in which there should be no Prince o... ...les; overlooking altogether the case in which there should be no Prince of Wales, and the case in which such a Prince might be as incapable, from yout... ...the office, as his father from dis- ease. Mr. Pitt denied that a Prince of Wales simply as such, and apart from any moral fitness which he might posse... ...pted neither view; for by offering the regency of Ireland to the Prince of Wales, they negatived Mr. Fox’s view, who held it to be the Prince’s by inh...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...men in England; some parts of Norfolk, and a spot or two in Cumberland and Wales, and the island over there, I know thoroughly. Those Jutes have turne... ...yond the merely womanly. Thus she was assisted to endure a journey down to Wales, where Nevil would surely not be. She passed a Winter with- out seein... ...oin, for services rendered by him on a trying occasion among the miners in Wales during the first spring month. ‘I dare say he can speak effectively t... ...rench gunpow- der notions in his head. He works for us down at the mine in Wales a good part of the year, and has tided us over a threat- ening strike... ...nk that she sees you as you are, more than in what you do. They are now in Wales. They will be in town after Easter. Then you must expect that her fee... ...on the benefit to health of a change of scene. ‘We have just returned from Wales,’ she said. He remarked that it was hardly a change to be within shot... ...soon after our return. We have been travelling incessantly. The cottage in Wales is not home. It is hardly fair to Mount Laurels to quit it without ob... ...fully to poor Blackburn T uckham, who was to be dropped at a town in South Wales, and de- scended greenish to his cabin as soon as they had crashed on...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Three

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...shall henceforth call Viscount Castlewood here, was H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, born in the same year and month with Frank, and just proclaimed at S... ...to arrest him in a midnight prank; he gave a dinner-party on the Prince of Wales’s birthday, which was within a fortnight of his own, and the twenty y...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...ant. The King told him that he might die in peace respecting the Prince of Wales, whom he would recognise as King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. T... ...de promptly, if not publicly. It was seen, that to recognise the Prince of Wales was to act in direct opposition to the recognition of the Prince of O... ...lland to become allies of the Emperor against France. As for the Prince of Wales, this recognition was no solid advantage to him, but was calculated t... ...Filles de Sainte Marie, of Chaillot. Immediately afterwards, the Prince of Wales was received by the King as King of England, with all the formalities... ...ce, ceased to appear at Versailles after this recognition of the Prince of Wales by the King, and immediately quitted his 203 Saint-Simon post and le... ...r had been declared between the King of England and his son, the Prince of Wales, which had caused much scandal; and which had enlisted the Court on o... ... and shut up his wife in a chateau for the rest of her days. The Prince of Wales, who found himself ill-treated for a cause of which he was personally... ...the presence of his mother and the aversion of his father. The Princess of Wales, who had much sense, intelligence, grace, and art, had softened thing... ...e of the most accredited and the most distinguished persons. The Prince of Wales feeling his strength, no longer studied his father, and blamed the mi...

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