'Tis an old tale, and often told [by I. Goldsmid].I. Goldsmid, 1839 - 322 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... dread scene when the same withered old crone hung over me , and told me in harsh accents to " cheer up , " for that a gentleman had been each day to inquire after me , -a friend . " Heaven help me ! " I replied , " I have no friends ...
... dread scene when the same withered old crone hung over me , and told me in harsh accents to " cheer up , " for that a gentleman had been each day to inquire after me , -a friend . " Heaven help me ! " I replied , " I have no friends ...
Pagina 15
... dreaded his attention being again attracted to the bills , which lay at his elbow ; but no sooner had he swallowed his tea than he took them up . " I think , cousin Dorothy , these charges are nefarious ; the nurse is a perfect harpy ...
... dreaded his attention being again attracted to the bills , which lay at his elbow ; but no sooner had he swallowed his tea than he took them up . " I think , cousin Dorothy , these charges are nefarious ; the nurse is a perfect harpy ...
Pagina 17
... dread influenced every action , and warped every notion . " What will people say ? " was her watch - word ; " We must do as others do ! " was her favourite aphorism . Alas ! how few there are who dare chalk out AND OFTEN TOLD . 17.
... dread influenced every action , and warped every notion . " What will people say ? " was her watch - word ; " We must do as others do ! " was her favourite aphorism . Alas ! how few there are who dare chalk out AND OFTEN TOLD . 17.
Pagina 26
... dread anathema of blue stockingism shall be fulminated against them . It is the parvenues in knowledge who are ridiculous , it is the ' little learning that is the dan- gerous thing ; ' it was the wisest of the ancient sages who felt ...
... dread anathema of blue stockingism shall be fulminated against them . It is the parvenues in knowledge who are ridiculous , it is the ' little learning that is the dan- gerous thing ; ' it was the wisest of the ancient sages who felt ...
Pagina 97
... dread - a vague and dizzy sense of impending misery ? I could not have defined it . Assuredly there was nothing in her demeanour to give rise to it . I had rarely , if ever , seen her so little animated ; yet was she listening ...
... dread - a vague and dizzy sense of impending misery ? I could not have defined it . Assuredly there was nothing in her demeanour to give rise to it . I had rarely , if ever , seen her so little animated ; yet was she listening ...
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Pagina 39 - Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
Pagina 310 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Pagina 21 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Pagina 41 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Pagina 89 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 1 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Pagina 126 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Pagina 310 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands...
Pagina 117 - Ah ! what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed ; render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
Pagina 69 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.