'Tis an old tale, and often told [by I. Goldsmid].I. Goldsmid, 1839 - 322 páginas |
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... person . Still have we thought it in- cumbent on us to insert a few notes , as the lapse of fifteen years between the close of the first , and opening of the second book , would incline us to think there must be many anachronisms in the ...
... person . Still have we thought it in- cumbent on us to insert a few notes , as the lapse of fifteen years between the close of the first , and opening of the second book , would incline us to think there must be many anachronisms in the ...
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... persons in your rank of life can be guilty ; and now good - bye , -I'm off to the city . Where is my hat and stick ? — you'll find them in the closet , just outside the door ; -there , that will do , -it cannot but be your own fault if ...
... persons in your rank of life can be guilty ; and now good - bye , -I'm off to the city . Where is my hat and stick ? — you'll find them in the closet , just outside the door ; -there , that will do , -it cannot but be your own fault if ...
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... person he was tall , stout , and inflexibly erect ; his eye was deep set , and penetrat- ing ; his brow thoughtful ... persons who are , at this present day , so rife in the world ; -persons whom La Bruyère has described as " portés par ...
... person he was tall , stout , and inflexibly erect ; his eye was deep set , and penetrat- ing ; his brow thoughtful ... persons who are , at this present day , so rife in the world ; -persons whom La Bruyère has described as " portés par ...
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... rise politely to greet me on my entering the room , " Oh don't disturb yourself ! ' tis only cousin Dorothy . ' 99 I had certainly no right to claim deference or attention from any person , much less from young men 18 ' TIS AN OLD TALE ,
... rise politely to greet me on my entering the room , " Oh don't disturb yourself ! ' tis only cousin Dorothy . ' 99 I had certainly no right to claim deference or attention from any person , much less from young men 18 ' TIS AN OLD TALE ,
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Isabel Goldsmid. attention from any person , much less from young men , for I was very plain , and , worse than that , I was unpardonably dowdy looking ; even dress failed to improve me - it was not true in my case , that , " fine ...
Isabel Goldsmid. attention from any person , much less from young men , for I was very plain , and , worse than that , I was unpardonably dowdy looking ; even dress failed to improve me - it was not true in my case , that , " fine ...
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acquaintance agony Allonby answer apartment appeared arms asked beautiful canker-worm carriage CHAPTER cheek counting-house daugh daughter Dear cousin Dorothy dear Viola Dick Sidney door dread dress exclaimed eyes father fear feelings felt Frank Herbert gaze girl give hair hand happy head hear heard heart Helen Helen Page honour hope hour husband knew Lady Glenalbert Lady Sarah Herbert laughed leave letter light lips live look Lord Glenalbert Lucy Lucy's Lyndham mamma manner Marables Margaret married ment Middleton mind mingled Miss Brookes Miss Page Miss Sharpe Miss Sidney morning mother never night observed once pale passed pause perhaps person poor quadrille racter rejoined replied rose scarcely seemed Sidney's sighed sister smile sorrow speak spirit spoke sure tears tell thing thou thought threw tion to-morrow tone Turretcliff Viola Sidney voice weep whilst wife woman word young ladies youth
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Página 39 - Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.