A Reed Shaken with the WindAdams, Victor, & Company, 1873 - 286 páginas |
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... eyes the curious combination of intellectual power and instability of purpose portrayed in Tiny Harewood ; I have watched with an aching heart the shifting weaknesses and faint struggles for redemption described in these pages ; I have ...
... eyes the curious combination of intellectual power and instability of purpose portrayed in Tiny Harewood ; I have watched with an aching heart the shifting weaknesses and faint struggles for redemption described in these pages ; I have ...
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... eyes had been fixed upon a fair young face until it could no longer be distinguished . He had watched the slight figure of a girl who was looking earnestly at the receding pier , as she leant over the side of the boat , with her hand ...
... eyes had been fixed upon a fair young face until it could no longer be distinguished . He had watched the slight figure of a girl who was looking earnestly at the receding pier , as she leant over the side of the boat , with her hand ...
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... eyes were fixed upon his face , after that strange fashion of hers which always made it difficult for him to control himself . He lost all power to do so now : —the book fell from his hand , his arm stole round her waist , and their ...
... eyes were fixed upon his face , after that strange fashion of hers which always made it difficult for him to control himself . He lost all power to do so now : —the book fell from his hand , his arm stole round her waist , and their ...
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... eyes . Now , Charlotte had views of her own for Tiny . There was a certain young baronet , with £ 10,000 a year , who was desperately in love with her sister ; and as Charlotte had discovered , after many exertions worthy of a better ...
... eyes . Now , Charlotte had views of her own for Tiny . There was a certain young baronet , with £ 10,000 a year , who was desperately in love with her sister ; and as Charlotte had discovered , after many exertions worthy of a better ...
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... eyes to the advantages of such a connection to the family . When he thought over the many kindnesses he had received from his aunt , he shrank from the very idea of acting in an apparently ungrateful manner . Essentially a proud man ...
... eyes to the advantages of such a connection to the family . When he thought over the many kindnesses he had received from his aunt , he shrank from the very idea of acting in an apparently ungrateful manner . Essentially a proud man ...
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Términos y frases comunes
A. C. SWINBURNE aunt beautiful believe Bellingham Castle breakfast Captain Foy CHAPTER Charlotte Chislehurst cousin darling daughters deck delight Drummond Dunoon eyes face feeling Fitzroy Somerset Foy's fred Lane friends gave girl give Grosvenor Crescent happiness heart Highflyer hope hour knew Lady Hare Lady Harewood Lady Isabella Lady Lothian Lane's leave letter London look Lord Lothian Lucy Scott Madeline mamma manner marriage ment mind miserable Miss Foy morning mother nature never night once pain passionate Philip Foy position present promised quiet Reginald Macnaghten Rome seemed Sir Anthony Claypole Sir Guy Sir Thomas Slade sisters soon spirit strong sure talk tell thee things thought Tiny Harewood Tiny's tion told took walked War Office week whole wife Wilfred Lane Wilfred's Windsor winter wishes wonderful words write Wroughton yacht young
Pasajes populares
Página 27 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints...
Página 26 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Página 40 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Página 63 - And even since, and now, fair Italy ! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature (') can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste ; More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 121 - BETTER trust all, and be deceived. And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
Página 149 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Página 40 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Página 118 - Though they bloom and look gay like the rose; Yet all our fond care to preserve them is vain, Time kills them as fast as he goes. Then I'll not be proud of my youth or my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade; But gain a good name by well doing my duty, This will scent like a rose when I'm dead.
Página 225 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife, More plentiful than hope.