The story of my wardship, Volym 3Richard Bentley, 1856 |
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... Grey remained with us . I felt truly wretched , exposed to the biting wind , and heartily wished either that our journey was at an end , or that we had not ventured out at all ; and in this unpleasant mood , I sat quiet in my corner ...
... Grey remained with us . I felt truly wretched , exposed to the biting wind , and heartily wished either that our journey was at an end , or that we had not ventured out at all ; and in this unpleasant mood , I sat quiet in my corner ...
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... ; and filled with the fear of his recognition , I did not even like to mention the fact of his near neighbourhood to Lady Ravensden , lest she should be inclined to speak to him . Mr. Grey , however , had eyes as sharp as 4 THE STORY.
... ; and filled with the fear of his recognition , I did not even like to mention the fact of his near neighbourhood to Lady Ravensden , lest she should be inclined to speak to him . Mr. Grey , however , had eyes as sharp as 4 THE STORY.
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... Grey , ' I cried , with something like terror , quite forgetful for the moment of everything save my dislike to my guardian . " But he would wish to see you , I should think , " he continued provokingly . ( 6 Never mind - please not to ...
... Grey , ' I cried , with something like terror , quite forgetful for the moment of everything save my dislike to my guardian . " But he would wish to see you , I should think , " he continued provokingly . ( 6 Never mind - please not to ...
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... Grey also greeted him warmly . ' Well , Miss Brand ! " said Mr. St. Leger , " I've wandered far and wide since I last had the pleasure of seeing you ; and now I feel almost like a stranger in my own land , for skipping the London season ...
... Grey also greeted him warmly . ' Well , Miss Brand ! " said Mr. St. Leger , " I've wandered far and wide since I last had the pleasure of seeing you ; and now I feel almost like a stranger in my own land , for skipping the London season ...
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... Grey ; " why you're a converted character . ” 66 Quite so , but I'm afraid my conversion is not of a lasting kind , for to confess the honest truth , I felt like a child returned home for the holidays , when I found myself at the club ...
... Grey ; " why you're a converted character . ” 66 Quite so , but I'm afraid my conversion is not of a lasting kind , for to confess the honest truth , I felt like a child returned home for the holidays , when I found myself at the club ...
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Sida 300 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Sida 110 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Sida 171 - Oh Love ! no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, — A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart...
Sida 73 - I have pass'da miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night Though 't were to buy a world of happy days ; So full of dismal terror was the time.
Sida 190 - Fates, severely kind, ordain A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain ; Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose : No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving spirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiven, And mild as opening gleams of promis'd Heaven.
Sida 44 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. 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.
Sida 175 - The swallows all have wing'd across the main; But here the autumn Melancholy dwells, And sighs her tearful spells Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain. Alone, alone, Upon a mossy stone, She sits and reckons up the dead and gone With the last leaves for a love-rosary, Whilst all the...
Sida 140 - Effie come — To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast — And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest THE LOTOS-EATERS "COURAGE!
Sida 3 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Sida 320 - I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. Cleo. She's wholly yours. My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love, in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.