Tales and Novels: HelenHarper & brothers, 1886 |
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Sida 158 - A countenance in which did meet 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.
Sida 218 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of wo To midnight dances, and the public show...
Sida 30 - Depend on th, importance of our conversations : Whereas some objections are thrown in our way, And words have been construed to mean what they say, — Be it known from henceforth to each friend and each brother, Whene'er we say one thing we mean quite another., Sir Benjamin gravely remarked that it was good law practice.
Sida 60 - Here she was wont to go ! and here ! and here !' Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow: The world may find the Spring by following her; For other print her airy steps ne'er left. Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk ! But like the soft west wind she shot along, And where she went, the flowers took thickest root. As she had sowed them with her odorous foot.
Sida 32 - IF good people," said Archbishop Usher, " would but make goodness agreeable, and smile, instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.
Sida 62 - ... it is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Sida 32 - Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before ; Can ready compliments supply On all occasions, cut and dry ; Such hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon $ For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing...
Sida 32 - Graceful in the midst of all his pranks, he never goes too far — though far enough he has been known to go — he has crept into the armour of the great hero, convulsed the senate in the wig of a chancellor, and becomingly, decorously, put on now and then the mitre of an archbishop. "If good people," said Archbishop Usher, "would but make goodness agreeable, and smile, instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause!
Sida 129 - Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken hearted." As Cecilia listened, she cast her eyes upon a card which lay on the table —
Sida 75 - To my face?' said I, smiling, for I tried to command my temper. '"Better than behind your back, as others do,