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... grew indistinct among the crowd on shore - the windings of the river soon shut the well - known town from his view - and Ernest Basil was fairly launched upon the world . CHAPTER III . A NEW YORK BELLE - SOMETHING MORE 32 ERNEST BASIL .
... grew indistinct among the crowd on shore - the windings of the river soon shut the well - known town from his view - and Ernest Basil was fairly launched upon the world . CHAPTER III . A NEW YORK BELLE - SOMETHING MORE 32 ERNEST BASIL .
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... York , and brought our story to the period represented in our first chapter . No wonder then if he enjoyed the change from a town , comparatively speaking a village , to New York . Here he went into society , judged entirely by his own ...
... York , and brought our story to the period represented in our first chapter . No wonder then if he enjoyed the change from a town , comparatively speaking a village , to New York . Here he went into society , judged entirely by his own ...
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... York the profession generally appears to stand higher than in Eng- land , and artists in general go more into what is called the " upper ten thousand , " or by the sans culottes less elegantly , but expressively , " the cod - fish ...
... York the profession generally appears to stand higher than in Eng- land , and artists in general go more into what is called the " upper ten thousand , " or by the sans culottes less elegantly , but expressively , " the cod - fish ...
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... York , and many an artist had formed the foundation of future fame by sending her portrait to the ex- hibition . Often and often as she had been painted she was never tired of sitting , and considered every solicitation as a fresh ...
... York , and many an artist had formed the foundation of future fame by sending her portrait to the ex- hibition . Often and often as she had been painted she was never tired of sitting , and considered every solicitation as a fresh ...
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... York , " " You should go to some of our fashionable watering places , Saratoga , or Newport , during the season , if you want to see American so- ciety . " The conversation now happening to grow rather national , Ernest hazarded a ...
... York , " " You should go to some of our fashionable watering places , Saratoga , or Newport , during the season , if you want to see American so- ciety . " The conversation now happening to grow rather national , Ernest hazarded a ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration affection Aggy Alec appeared artist bathing machines beautiful began character colour Constance Fairweather conversation Danvers daugh dear Elinor Ellen Douglas Ernest Basil eyes Fairwea fear feel felt forget Free Church lady gentleman girl give Grafton Street Grainger hand happy hear heard heart hope hour idea knew lassie laugh letter listen living look lover marry mind Miss Blair Miss Fair Miss Fairweather Miss Fairweather's Miss Flaccid Miss Greenshields Miss Lawrence Miss Norton Miss Saunders Miss Scunnerweel mother Mucklewhackit never night painter painting party Paul Pearson Pennywise Close perhaps picture poor portrait possessed Prince rence Scotland seemed sing song speak strange studio sure talk tell things thought tion to-night uncon voice walk wish woman wonder words write York young lady
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Página 190 - Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Long'd for a deathless lover from above, And madden'd in that vision — are exprest All that ideal beauty ever bless'd The mind with in its most unearthly mood...
Página 129 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Página 89 - Give me my robe, put on my crown ; I have Immortal longings in me : Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of...
Página 320 - FILL the goblet again ! for I never before Felt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core ; Let us drink ! — who would not ? — since, through life's varied round, In the goblet alone no deception is found. I have tried in its turn all that life can supply ; I have bask'd in the beam of a dark rolling eye ; I have loved ! — who has not ? — but what heart can declare That pleasure existed while passion...
Página 198 - Ye Elements, in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted, can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot, Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot...
Página 190 - ... and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance : in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 271 - Where shall the traitor rest, He, the deceiver, Who could win maiden's breast, Ruin, and leave her? In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying; Eleu loro There shall he be lying.
Página 59 - Tis o'er, but never from my heart Shall time thine image blot ; The dreams of other days depart, Thou shalt not be forgot ; And never in the suppliant sigh Poured forth to Him who sways the sky, Shall mine own name be breathed on high, And thine remembered not...
Página 169 - I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth ? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
Página 242 - I stooped upon the pebbly strand, To cull the toys that round me lay. But, as I took them in my hand, I threw them one by one away. Oh, thus, I said, in ev'ry stage, By toys our fancy is beguiled ; We gather shells from youth to age, And then we leave them, like a child.