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... feel compelled to speak out and tell you that I am perfectly happy at this instant , " I exclaimed , as we threw ourselves back in the comfortable carriage which had been sent to meet us . " What - not one drawback ? " asked Clair ...
... feel compelled to speak out and tell you that I am perfectly happy at this instant , " I exclaimed , as we threw ourselves back in the comfortable carriage which had been sent to meet us . " What - not one drawback ? " asked Clair ...
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... feel . I mean the wide difference between talent and genius . My aunt , much as she speaks about them , is as ignorant on the subject as you are . " " Allow me to ask you , Ella , which you fancy you possess ? " Ella paused . Slowly the ...
... feel . I mean the wide difference between talent and genius . My aunt , much as she speaks about them , is as ignorant on the subject as you are . " " Allow me to ask you , Ella , which you fancy you possess ? " Ella paused . Slowly the ...
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... the falling cause ; would feel his own will at each step . He had al- for , of late , the Earl of Flanders has been every - ready resolved ; but his love to Adriana troubles 1 Art . ( to Van Ryk . ) I THE DRAMAS OF HENRY TAYLOR . 21.
... the falling cause ; would feel his own will at each step . He had al- for , of late , the Earl of Flanders has been every - ready resolved ; but his love to Adriana troubles 1 Art . ( to Van Ryk . ) I THE DRAMAS OF HENRY TAYLOR . 21.
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... feel the truth of this last expression , ) gives us at the very commencement the necessary explanation- Leolf . How ... feeling of sympathy with Dunstan ! When Dunstan . Another and a third . Queen Mother . St. Dunstan . Oh , man of God ...
... feel the truth of this last expression , ) gives us at the very commencement the necessary explanation- Leolf . How ... feeling of sympathy with Dunstan ! When Dunstan . Another and a third . Queen Mother . St. Dunstan . Oh , man of God ...
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... feel this more particularly in Edwin the Fair . We seem to see the artist sorting and putting together again the elements of human nature . His Wulfstan , the ever - absent sage , his tricksy Emma , and her very silly lover , Ernway ...
... feel this more particularly in Edwin the Fair . We seem to see the artist sorting and putting together again the elements of human nature . His Wulfstan , the ever - absent sage , his tricksy Emma , and her very silly lover , Ernway ...
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admiration appeared army Assembly aunt Austrian beauty believe British called cause character Comte Comte de Montmorin Constance constitution coup d'état crocodile doubt Elizabeth England English Europe eyes father fear feel force foreign France French give hand Hazeldean head heard heart honor hope Horace Walpole Hungary interest Kate Thornton king knew Kossuth lady land less letter living look Lord Lord Palmerston Louis Napoleon Marck Mary means ment military mind minister Mirabeau Mont Blanc morning nation nature never night officers once opinion Paris party passed perhaps person Philip Van Artevelde political present Prince Prince Schwarzenberg queen Randal replied revolution Riccabocca Ripplestone scarcely seemed Sir Robert Peel smile speak spirit things thought tion troops truth turned turtle Vaincy Vienna whilst words young
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Página 324 - What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story...
Página 346 - My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Página 276 - Unhappily, while the. natural growth of society went on, the artificial polity continued unchanged. The ancient form of the representation remained ; and precisely because the form remained, the spirit departed. Then came that pressure almost to bursting, the new wine in the old bottles, the new society under the old institutions.
Página 243 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Página 275 - We talk of the wisdom of our ancestors ; and in one respect at least they were wiser than we. They legislated for their own times. They looked at the England which was before them. They did not think it necessary to give twice as many members to York as they gave to London, because York had been the capital of Britain in the time of Constantius Chlorus...
Página 206 - The wolves, having regained their feet, sprang directly towards me. The race was renewed for twenty yards up the stream ; they were already close on my back, when I glided round and dashed directly past my pursuers.
Página 302 - Robert Peel had a great deficiency ; he was without imagination. Wanting imagination, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him ; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his long career, that while he always was looked upon as the most prudent and safest of leaders, he ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded...
Página 275 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet restingplace to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Página 195 - We may be quite sure that they were not invented without being needed, that they have each a correlative in the world of realities. I open the first letter of the alphabet; what means this "ah...
Página 276 - They framed a representative system, which was not indeed without defects and irregularities, but which was well adapted to the state of England in their time. But a great revolution took place. The character of the old corporations changed. New forms of property came into existence. New portions of society rose into importance. There were in our rural districts rich cultivators, who were not freeholders. There were in our capital rich traders, who were not liverymen. Towns shrank into villages....