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Pagina 7
... replied she , apologetically , as she paused on the threshold . The Capels were universally pronounced a very happy family ; nevertheless , this specimen of their domestic felicity was by no means solitary of its kind . 66 " A nosegay ...
... replied she , apologetically , as she paused on the threshold . The Capels were universally pronounced a very happy family ; nevertheless , this specimen of their domestic felicity was by no means solitary of its kind . 66 " A nosegay ...
Pagina 18
... replied she , apologetically , as she paused on the threshold . " A nosegay ! " cried Mr. Capel , with an inde- scribable mixture of wrath and contempt , while George and Julia could not restrain their laughter , and the younger members ...
... replied she , apologetically , as she paused on the threshold . " A nosegay ! " cried Mr. Capel , with an inde- scribable mixture of wrath and contempt , while George and Julia could not restrain their laughter , and the younger members ...
Pagina 21
... replied without hesitation . " Because she could feel no security that she was beloved till she was actually told so ; no woman could ; and not to give her that security would be to deprive her of her only comfort in the after ...
... replied without hesitation . " Because she could feel no security that she was beloved till she was actually told so ; no woman could ; and not to give her that security would be to deprive her of her only comfort in the after ...
Pagina 22
... replied Annie ; " I have not got into four syllables . " " That's a pleasure to come , " answered her friend ; and opening her writing - book he volun- teered to provide her next copy , and solemnly set down in huge text - hand the ...
... replied Annie ; " I have not got into four syllables . " " That's a pleasure to come , " answered her friend ; and opening her writing - book he volun- teered to provide her next copy , and solemnly set down in huge text - hand the ...
Pagina 23
... replied he ; " in- tellect in a wife gives one so much trouble . It is rather in the way than otherwise . Let her be positively stupid , dull , slow of perception , if only she looks handsome , and flatters one's vanity , by seeming to ...
... replied he ; " in- tellect in a wife gives one so much trouble . It is rather in the way than otherwise . Let her be positively stupid , dull , slow of perception , if only she looks handsome , and flatters one's vanity , by seeming to ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Pagina 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Pagina 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Pagina 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Pagina 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Pagina 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Pagina 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Pagina 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Pagina 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Pagina 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...