Romance and Reality, Volumen2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 - 1003 páginas |
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... society than his melan- choly ; perhaps that shame attendant on change of opinion , however justifiable , ( we hate to con- tradict ourselves , it is so rude ) , also supported the claims of a seclusion which had long been somewhat ...
... society than his melan- choly ; perhaps that shame attendant on change of opinion , however justifiable , ( we hate to con- tradict ourselves , it is so rude ) , also supported the claims of a seclusion which had long been somewhat ...
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... a degree to hers . Naturally of quiet and retired habits , the seclusion of his library , at first a refuge , soon became a necessity . At 1 home he had no society ; his wife's conversa- tion 54 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
... a degree to hers . Naturally of quiet and retired habits , the seclusion of his library , at first a refuge , soon became a necessity . At 1 home he had no society ; his wife's conversa- tion 54 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
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... society , Mrs. Arundel still more missed his authority . The delightful feeling of opposition - obsti- nacy is the heroism of little minds - was past ; she had , however , found a great resource in the society of a Mrs. Clarke . That ...
... society , Mrs. Arundel still more missed his authority . The delightful feeling of opposition - obsti- nacy is the heroism of little minds - was past ; she had , however , found a great resource in the society of a Mrs. Clarke . That ...
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... of existence . How irksome , how wearying , to be doomed always to the society of those who are like people speaking different languages ! It re- sembles travelling through the East , with a few phrases ROMANCE AND REALITY . 83.
... of existence . How irksome , how wearying , to be doomed always to the society of those who are like people speaking different languages ! It re- sembles travelling through the East , with a few phrases ROMANCE AND REALITY . 83.
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... society - heaven defend me from localities , your highways and by- ways of conversation ; where a squire , with a cast - iron and crimson countenance , details the covey of fourteen , out of which he killed five ; or his lady , with the ...
... society - heaven defend me from localities , your highways and by- ways of conversation ; where a squire , with a cast - iron and crimson countenance , details the covey of fourteen , out of which he killed five ; or his lady , with the ...
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Adelaide admiration affection 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'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 replied riston rose round seat seemed selfishness sentiment shew soon sorrow Stanmore step sweet Swiss guards sympathy talk taste thing thought tion 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 211 - 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 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 232 - 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 237 - 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 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 299 - 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 298 - 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...
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.