Romance and reality, by L.E.L. |
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... asked and obtained ! Not a cottage but she had been in the habit of visiting . And who does not know that notice is often more grate- fully remembered than service ? -the one flat- ters , the other only obliges us . All the child- ren ...
... asked and obtained ! Not a cottage but she had been in the habit of visiting . And who does not know that notice is often more grate- fully remembered than service ? -the one flat- ters , the other only obliges us . All the child- ren ...
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... asking him- self , where was the embarrassment of it ? But neither showers nor any other means of human felicity , ever last . The clouds broke away , and the sun shone most provokingly in at the windows - a fact instantly stated by ...
... asking him- self , where was the embarrassment of it ? But neither showers nor any other means of human felicity , ever last . The clouds broke away , and the sun shone most provokingly in at the windows - a fact instantly stated by ...
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... asked herself , " that I am the same person who , last spring , fancied a visit to London the summit of earthly enjoyment ? I remember how my heart beat while reading Mr. Delawarr's letter : what did I hope for ? what did I expect ? -no ...
... asked herself , " that I am the same person who , last spring , fancied a visit to London the summit of earthly enjoyment ? I remember how my heart beat while reading Mr. Delawarr's letter : what did I hope for ? what did I expect ? -no ...
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... asked ; for one of those breaks of sunshine , so like reality in his pictures , came from the half- opened glass door , and fell full on the large old crimson arm - chair , where Lady Mandeville was seated with a little work - table ...
... asked ; for one of those breaks of sunshine , so like reality in his pictures , came from the half- opened glass door , and fell full on the large old crimson arm - chair , where Lady Mandeville was seated with a little work - table ...
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... asked , which is your favourite poet ? ' Authors who appeal to the feelings are those of whom our opinions must inevitably vary most : I judge according to my mood . " " Another odious fashion of conversation is that of comparison : I ...
... asked , which is your favourite poet ? ' Authors who appeal to the feelings are those of whom our opinions must inevitably vary most : I judge according to my mood . " " Another odious fashion of conversation is that of comparison : I ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adelaide admiration Algernon amusement aunt beautiful Boyne Sillery brother called child Clarke cold coloured corn laws crimson dear death deep purple Delawarr delight dinner dress Edward Lorraine Emily Emily's enjoyment expression exquisite eyes face fairy favourite feelings Fitzroy Square flowers gave gentleman give grace green happiness heart hope human husband imagination indolent interest John Arundel Lady Lauriston Lady Mandeville Lady Mandeville's laugh light London look Lord Etheringhame Lord Mandeville Lorraine's lover Margaret Lindsay marriage married memory ment Merton mind Miss Arundel Morland morning natural ness never night once passed passion picture pleasant pleasure poet racter remember riston romantic rose round seemed sentiment shew smile soon sorrow Stanmore step sweet Swiss guards sympathy talk taste thing thought tion took Trevyllian truth turned uncle uncle's vanity walk wife window woman young youth
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Página 162 - 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 117 - 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 235 - Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 230 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Página 51 - 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.
Página 1 - 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 297 - Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burn'd hair, She had not known her child.
Página 1 - 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 209 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 296 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...