The story of my wardship, Volym 3Richard Bentley, 1856 |
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... arrival of country families - nice , substantial - looking people of all ages , who came bustling in , as if the occasion were the most important of their lives . Presently the soldiers made their appear- ance ; but , 2 THE STORY.
... arrival of country families - nice , substantial - looking people of all ages , who came bustling in , as if the occasion were the most important of their lives . Presently the soldiers made their appear- ance ; but , 2 THE STORY.
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... I see now that the report of an engagement ' is nothing but the trick of a bad man to make sure of his prize , and while Lionel Grey lives , Miss Brand shall never be made the victim of the infernal schemes of 62 THE STORY.
... I see now that the report of an engagement ' is nothing but the trick of a bad man to make sure of his prize , and while Lionel Grey lives , Miss Brand shall never be made the victim of the infernal schemes of 62 THE STORY.
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... had conceived a violent dislike to my guardian , in consequence , I suppose , of the discovery she made , on the day she went to visit her friend " who married the pleeceman , and went to live in St. John's Wood ; " OF MY WARDSHIP . 91.
... had conceived a violent dislike to my guardian , in consequence , I suppose , of the discovery she made , on the day she went to visit her friend " who married the pleeceman , and went to live in St. John's Wood ; " OF MY WARDSHIP . 91.
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Mary Catherine Jackson. and went to live in St. John's Wood ; " or it might have been a natural and unaccountable antipathy such , as some natures feel for others ; at all events , to use her own phraseology , she " couldn't abide un ...
Mary Catherine Jackson. and went to live in St. John's Wood ; " or it might have been a natural and unaccountable antipathy such , as some natures feel for others ; at all events , to use her own phraseology , she " couldn't abide un ...
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... live in a degenerate age , a very bad time indeed ; " and the dame would stalk across the room in a style almost tragical ; even the sifflement that playful little habit of hers , was for- gotten . " I am truly sorry , " she would say ...
... live in a degenerate age , a very bad time indeed ; " and the dame would stalk across the room in a style almost tragical ; even the sifflement that playful little habit of hers , was for- gotten . " I am truly sorry , " she would say ...
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amongst amuse Ashwoods asked astonished Barleycrop beauty better bosom breath Captain Howard carriage Charles Compton charm child cold Constantia creature cried Croppy dancing dark dark angel dark shadow dead silence dear endeavour exclaimed expression eyes face fancy fate of nations fear feeling fellow felt gazed girl give going Grace Grey Grey's guardian hand happy hear heard heart Hester imagine interest Isola kind knew Lady Bernard Lady D'Arville Lady Ravensden ladyship laughed Leger Leila length light Lionel lips live look Lord D'Arville lordship Madam manner marry matter mediæval mind Miss Brand Miss Rice Missie mother never night old lady painful pale passion pleasure poor possessed racter Reginald rose scene seemed Serle smile society spirit stood strange sure sweet talk taste tears tell thing thought tion tone trembling truth turned twill wish woman wonder words young lady
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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.