Real Life: Pages from the Portfolio of a ChroniclerWallis & Newell, 1835 - 148 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... became proud , tyrannical , almost brutal , in the evening . No wonder poor Marian should regret her cousin's departure ; the little acquaintance she had with books and accomplishments she owed to Henry O'Donnell . Henry invariably ...
... became proud , tyrannical , almost brutal , in the evening . No wonder poor Marian should regret her cousin's departure ; the little acquaintance she had with books and accomplishments she owed to Henry O'Donnell . Henry invariably ...
Pagina 17
... became neces- sary for one to speak . ―― " On the morning of my marriage , the last request I made my poor father was , that they should remain untouched . " " You must , " replied Sir Charles , but too evidently mortified , " attach ...
... became neces- sary for one to speak . ―― " On the morning of my marriage , the last request I made my poor father was , that they should remain untouched . " " You must , " replied Sir Charles , but too evidently mortified , " attach ...
Pagina 32
... became sunk , her step languid , and noted that her voice , ever sweetly musical , had grown like the sighing of a wounded bird : but she never told her feelings ; she buried them within her bosom ; and , after a few years , they ...
... became sunk , her step languid , and noted that her voice , ever sweetly musical , had grown like the sighing of a wounded bird : but she never told her feelings ; she buried them within her bosom ; and , after a few years , they ...
Pagina 33
... became acquainted with my favourites . To one at all involved in the necessary ceremonies of English society , there is something bright and reviving in the frank and unconstrained manners of an ani- mated child : the brilliant smile ...
... became acquainted with my favourites . To one at all involved in the necessary ceremonies of English society , there is something bright and reviving in the frank and unconstrained manners of an ani- mated child : the brilliant smile ...
Pagina 37
... became wearisome to the lightest spirit - how it fretted , and festered , and galled , and oppressed , all who imagined that the pleasures of this life could satisfy that craving after happiness and immortality so insep- arable from our ...
... became wearisome to the lightest spirit - how it fretted , and festered , and galled , and oppressed , all who imagined that the pleasures of this life could satisfy that craving after happiness and immortality so insep- arable from our ...
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Agnes Allan Allan Stewart Appin arms bairns beautiful better blessed bosom called Campbell canna captain Charles Barnett cheek child cottage daughter dear Delorme Delphine door dreadful exclaimed eyes face father fear feelings felt Fiesco frae Genoa gentle girl Grace gude hand happy Hartland hear heard heart heaven honour hope Hoskins Hospodar hour husband James Barr Joseph Huntley knew Lady Sarah Lavagna lips live Lochaber look lugger Marian marriage married master Milly mind Montague House mother never night passed Podolia poor poor Jack pray puir replied returned Scotland seemed silent Simon Sir Charles Sir Lionel sister smile soon sorrow soul speak spirit stood Sunderland sweet tears tell thing thought told took truth turned utter voice Wallingford widow wife wish woman wonder words Yarro young
Populaire passages
Pagina 41 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Pagina 117 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires: As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires: — Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
Pagina 182 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Pagina 38 - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they have been good or evil...
Pagina 127 - A something light as air — a look — A word unkind, or wrongly taken, Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, - A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Pagina 85 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Pagina 49 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Pagina 114 - That the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired." "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia." Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Pagina 65 - I therein would have found issue. Hear me profess sincerely : had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Pagina 56 - Grace! you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, if you take the child from his studies.