Romance and Reality, Volumen1J. J. Harper, 1832 |
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... talk of , and other and faultless dinners to redeem aught of failure in the last . Sometimes Emily might think it was rather dull , and lay down the Morning Post with a sigh , or close her novel with a hope ; but in general her spirits ...
... talk of , and other and faultless dinners to redeem aught of failure in the last . Sometimes Emily might think it was rather dull , and lay down the Morning Post with a sigh , or close her novel with a hope ; but in general her spirits ...
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... talking , smiling , and singing her very best not that Mr. Delawarr was , génerally speak- ing , at all like the knights of old , voués aux dames . Mar- ried metaphorically to his place in the ministry , and actually to the daughter of ...
... talking , smiling , and singing her very best not that Mr. Delawarr was , génerally speak- ing , at all like the knights of old , voués aux dames . Mar- ried metaphorically to his place in the ministry , and actually to the daughter of ...
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... talking , while the daugh- ters sat such complete personifications of indifference , that Mrs. Granville might very well have addressed her ode to either of them . " Mrs. De Lisle's rooms were so crowded last night- very brilliant ...
... talking , while the daugh- ters sat such complete personifications of indifference , that Mrs. Granville might very well have addressed her ode to either of them . " Mrs. De Lisle's rooms were so crowded last night- very brilliant ...
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... talk of his wife and family , I consider his designs on my purse and time to be quite desperate . Descendants of the sea - kings ! I am sure I shall not drown ; and if you do , I promise to increase your donation , till your widows may ...
... talk of his wife and family , I consider his designs on my purse and time to be quite desperate . Descendants of the sea - kings ! I am sure I shall not drown ; and if you do , I promise to increase your donation , till your widows may ...
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... talk learnedly of tone and touch , all in vain - a musical ear is no more to be acquired than Lady H.'s beauty or Mrs. T.'s grace . " What a pity , " said old Lord E. , a man whom a peerage spoilt for a professor , whose heart had ...
... talk learnedly of tone and touch , all in vain - a musical ear is no more to be acquired than Lady H.'s beauty or Mrs. T.'s grace . " What a pity , " said old Lord E. , a man whom a peerage spoilt for a professor , whose heart had ...
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Página 236 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Página 160 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Página 215 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Página 71 - The Monk gazed long on the lovely moon, Then into the night he looked forth; And red and bright the streamers light Were dancing in the glowing north. So had he seen, in fair Castile, The youth in glittering squadrons start, Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.
Página 66 - To again quote the oracles of my high-priest, Wordsworth, there is nothing like ' The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on its own heart.' What ' truths divine ' crowd every page of Wordsworth's writings ! I sometimes wish to be a modern Alexander, that I might have Mount Athos carved into, not my own statue, but his.
Página 160 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Página 215 - Clan-Alpine's best are backward borne,— Where, where, was Roderick then ! One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
Página 183 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time; the autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves.