Aline, an old friend's story, by the author of 'The gambler's wife'.T.C. Newby, 1848 |
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... to behold -the unconscious Sir Alexander , absent and absorbed , his brow clouded with the ever pres- sing care and business of his official calling- entered the library . " Children ! " he exclaimed , just discerning that 16 ALINE .
... to behold -the unconscious Sir Alexander , absent and absorbed , his brow clouded with the ever pres- sing care and business of his official calling- entered the library . " Children ! " he exclaimed , just discerning that 16 ALINE .
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... singing mistress , that she had happened to be so well off , - Ma- dame C. , besides being an old friend of the young Italian professor , preserved a tender in- terest in her chere éleve - her bellee rosignole , as she used to call ...
... singing mistress , that she had happened to be so well off , - Ma- dame C. , besides being an old friend of the young Italian professor , preserved a tender in- terest in her chere éleve - her bellee rosignole , as she used to call ...
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... sing the sweeter for it some of these days . " 66 Sing ! " murmured Aline in a tone partaking almost of disgust- then added with a bitter smile , " Sing - poor darling ! ah nurse ! I think he had better never learn to sing . " * The ...
... sing the sweeter for it some of these days . " 66 Sing ! " murmured Aline in a tone partaking almost of disgust- then added with a bitter smile , " Sing - poor darling ! ah nurse ! I think he had better never learn to sing . " * The ...
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... singing lesson , that I can in- terrupt as I once chanced to do - and to so little purpose after all ! " and he shrugged his shoulders with half affected , half genuine feel- ing " Lord Mervyn , " said Aline , after a slight pause ...
... singing lesson , that I can in- terrupt as I once chanced to do - and to so little purpose after all ! " and he shrugged his shoulders with half affected , half genuine feel- ing " Lord Mervyn , " said Aline , after a slight pause ...
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... singing - that cursed singing -- which ruined me ! —and — I must say it -ruined yourself ! " " Again Lord Mervyn ! -I pray you speak for yourself - but I see you are bent on pro- voking - on wounding me - on rendering your presence ...
... singing - that cursed singing -- which ruined me ! —and — I must say it -ruined yourself ! " " Again Lord Mervyn ! -I pray you speak for yourself - but I see you are bent on pro- voking - on wounding me - on rendering your presence ...
Términos y frases comunes
Ada's Adelaide's Aline replied Aline's Amina amongst Anderson answered appearance beautiful beheld carriage Castle Mervyn cerning child cold coldly countenance daughter dear delight door Elvino enquired entered excited exclaimed expression eyes face fair fair lady fancy father feelings felt festival gallery gaze gelo gentle girl glanced guests hand head heart Hereford husband idea imagination innocent interest Lady Adelaide Lady Mervyn Lady Mountjoy ladyship light look Lord Mervyn Madame Angelo Madame Lucetti Mamma Marchmont ment Merriford Mervyn Castle mind Miss Seyton morning mother murmured never niece night object once pale party paused perhaps playfully pleasure poor returned scarcely seat seemed servant Signor Angelo sing singer Sir Alexander Sir Michael sister smile Somnambula soon spirit stood strange stranger sweet thing thought tion tone turned uncle voice whilst wife words young Italian young lord
Pasajes populares
Página 229 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 121 - But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 42 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 88 - Oh find me, prosperous or undone ! Or, if the grave be now thy bed, Why am I ignorant of the same, That I may rest ; and neither blame Nor sorrow may attend thy name ? Seven years, alas ! to have received No tidings of an only child ; To have...
Página 45 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Página 257 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds whistle, and the tempests roar...
Página 182 - And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy. But as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low; To me that morning did it happen so; And fears and fancies thick upon me came; Dim sadness— and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name.
Página 144 - I know you, Clara Vere de Vere, You pine among your halls and towers : The languid light of your proud eyes Is wearied of the rolling hours. In glowing health, with boundless wealth, But sickening of a vague disease, You know so ill to deal with time, You needs must play such pranks as these.
Página 215 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince...