The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & RomanceGeo. Henderson, 1868 |
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Pagina 15
... dark page in the romance of history which records the sad fate of Amy Robsart . Anna , or Annie ( Hebrew , Hannah ) , signifies Adelaide is of German derivation , and has the kind or gracious . meaning of a princess . " A little maid ...
... dark page in the romance of history which records the sad fate of Amy Robsart . Anna , or Annie ( Hebrew , Hannah ) , signifies Adelaide is of German derivation , and has the kind or gracious . meaning of a princess . " A little maid ...
Pagina 19
... dark cloud's shining lid , A gentle zephyr mov'd the trees ; Perfume of rose was in the breeze . The carpet turf beneath our feet Was soft in moss , in fragrance sweet : The bushes round the lawn were ringing With nightingales all ...
... dark cloud's shining lid , A gentle zephyr mov'd the trees ; Perfume of rose was in the breeze . The carpet turf beneath our feet Was soft in moss , in fragrance sweet : The bushes round the lawn were ringing With nightingales all ...
Pagina 28
... dark pool lying between the sister hamlets often bubbled up to the surface the hideous secret of some babe's foul murder . In the year 1745 , the year after Pope had laid down a life that , owing to his deformity and other causes , has ...
... dark pool lying between the sister hamlets often bubbled up to the surface the hideous secret of some babe's foul murder . In the year 1745 , the year after Pope had laid down a life that , owing to his deformity and other causes , has ...
Pagina 40
... dark woods , of whose dangers so many tales had been told , Liuchen stood awhile and hesitated , for she was little more than a child after all . Still , her determination was stronger than her fears , and she went on . The woods were ...
... dark woods , of whose dangers so many tales had been told , Liuchen stood awhile and hesitated , for she was little more than a child after all . Still , her determination was stronger than her fears , and she went on . The woods were ...
Pagina 42
... dark bodies glimmered with faint electric light , as they darted to and fro in the darker parts of the marsh , with their spark - like eyes bent on her , and all seemed by their gestures to be jeering and mocking at poor Liuchen . As ...
... dark bodies glimmered with faint electric light , as they darted to and fro in the darker parts of the marsh , with their spark - like eyes bent on her , and all seemed by their gestures to be jeering and mocking at poor Liuchen . As ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alice appearance Arabs asked beautiful brother called Cardington chain child Coalhurst colour Comminge cotton forward dance dark Darliston dear door dragoman dress eyes face father Faust fear feel feet flowers Fredrika Gainsborough garden girl give Grant Wainwright Hall Hampstead hand happy head heard heart Helen Hethel honour hope hour husband John Biggs knit lady leave letter light little Lotta Liuchen live look Lord Lord Byron Madame Mainwaring Marchwood marriage Merrivale Miss Mormon morning mother Nanny never night once passed poor Préfet present pretty rose round scene School for Scandal seemed side soon speak stitches stood suppose sweet tarlatane tell thing thought throw the cotton tion told took turned TUXFORD Undine voice walk wife wish Witham woman words young
Populaire passages
Pagina 206 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Pagina 128 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Pagina 35 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Pagina 88 - The trivial round, the common task, Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Pagina 323 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Pagina 320 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Pagina 212 - Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness : according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. Wash me throughly from my wickedness : and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my faults : and my sin is ever before me.
Pagina 207 - In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard — but witness mine!
Pagina 308 - ... enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake. And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
Pagina 320 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.