Beatrice, Or, The Unknown RelativesSimpkin, Marshall, 1855 - 492 pagina's |
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Pagina 134
... particularly quiet reserved - look- ing woman , in a black bonnet of undefinable shape , and a black serge dress made up to the throat . Mrs. Lorraine , as she caused herself to be announced , had a sort of CHAPTER ...
... particularly quiet reserved - look- ing woman , in a black bonnet of undefinable shape , and a black serge dress made up to the throat . Mrs. Lorraine , as she caused herself to be announced , had a sort of CHAPTER ...
Pagina 135
... Lorraine would look as if it were the very thing she expected ! ' Mrs. Lorraine unhesitatingly undertook whatever duties Lady Edith proposed , made no difficulties , started no objections , dis- covered no surprise , but seemed made up ...
... Lorraine would look as if it were the very thing she expected ! ' Mrs. Lorraine unhesitatingly undertook whatever duties Lady Edith proposed , made no difficulties , started no objections , dis- covered no surprise , but seemed made up ...
Pagina 136
... Lorraine propose to herself by accepting an office the reverse of a sinecure , being labor with scarcely any salary ? It seemed almost undeniably a mystery ! When Mrs. Lorraine returned to receive her final answer , Lady Edith was anew ...
... Lorraine propose to herself by accepting an office the reverse of a sinecure , being labor with scarcely any salary ? It seemed almost undeniably a mystery ! When Mrs. Lorraine returned to receive her final answer , Lady Edith was anew ...
Pagina 137
... Lorraine , in a quiet tone of sad civility and of passive resignation , while she seemed to wipe away a tear with her handkerchief ; ' I am like a stray weed , tossed on the ocean of life , uncaring , and uncared for ! Try me in your ...
... Lorraine , in a quiet tone of sad civility and of passive resignation , while she seemed to wipe away a tear with her handkerchief ; ' I am like a stray weed , tossed on the ocean of life , uncaring , and uncared for ! Try me in your ...
Pagina 138
... Lorraine placed herself before them with downcast eyes beside Lady Edith , who could not but utter her feelings in a tone of benevolent enthusiasm , when she said , " The noblest felicity permitted to human beings on earth , is when we ...
... Lorraine placed herself before them with downcast eyes beside Lady Edith , who could not but utter her feelings in a tone of benevolent enthusiasm , when she said , " The noblest felicity permitted to human beings on earth , is when we ...
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Pagina 388 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Pagina 272 - The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Pagina 414 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though Wisdom wake, Suspicion sleeps At Wisdom's gate, and to Simplicity Resigns her charge, while Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Pagina 67 - Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves, Who all the sacred mysteries of heaven To their own vile advantages shall turn Of lucre and ambition, and the truth With superstitions and traditions taint, Left only in those written records pure, Though not but by the Spirit understood.
Pagina 134 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Pagina 98 - Let our unceasing, earnest prayer Be, too, for light, — for strength to bear Our portion of the weight of care, That crushes into dumb despair One half the human race.
Pagina 346 - Ooze to her skin, and stagnate there to mud, Cased like the centipede in saffron mail, Or darker greenness of the scorpion's scale — ( For drawn from reptiles only may we trace Congenial colours in that soul or face) — Look on her features!
Pagina 171 - No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart...
Pagina 327 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Pagina 327 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T