Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1818 |
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... , and she saw that she had completely succeeded . Mary was disliked by her mother , and despised by her sister ; and any attempt to bring her forward , or raise her to a level with themselves , never failed MARRIAGE . 19.
... , and she saw that she had completely succeeded . Mary was disliked by her mother , and despised by her sister ; and any attempt to bring her forward , or raise her to a level with themselves , never failed MARRIAGE . 19.
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... mother and sister , and that was sufficient to make her wish to put a stop to it . She , therefore , earnestly entreated Lady Emily to end the joke . " Excuse me , ” replied her Ladyship , " I shall do no such thing . In the first place ...
... mother and sister , and that was sufficient to make her wish to put a stop to it . She , therefore , earnestly entreated Lady Emily to end the joke . " Excuse me , ” replied her Ladyship , " I shall do no such thing . In the first place ...
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... mother should be so dis- pleased about it She surely cannot sup- pose me so silly , as to be elated by the un- meaning admiration of any one , or so mean- ly aspiring as to marry a man I could not love , mérely because he is a Duke ...
... mother should be so dis- pleased about it She surely cannot sup- pose me so silly , as to be elated by the un- meaning admiration of any one , or so mean- ly aspiring as to marry a man I could not love , mérely because he is a Duke ...
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... mother would feel on the subject , as she never alluded to her husband's family , but with indignation or contempt ; and she therefore resolved to be silent with regard to aunt Grizzy's prospects for the present .. CHAPTER III . - " As ...
... mother would feel on the subject , as she never alluded to her husband's family , but with indignation or contempt ; and she therefore resolved to be silent with regard to aunt Grizzy's prospects for the present .. CHAPTER III . - " As ...
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... mother would with her sick child ; but still there are a thousand little feminine attentions he cannot under- stand . I would not that he did . And then to have him always with me seems so sel- fish ; for , gentle and tender - hearted ...
... mother would with her sick child ; but still there are a thousand little feminine attentions he cannot under- stand . I would not that he did . And then to have him always with me seems so sel- fish ; for , gentle and tender - hearted ...
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Adelaide Adelaide's admiration affection assure aunt Grizzy Beech Park better Bluemits brooch certainly charms Colonel Lennox colour cousin cried Lady Emily daugh daughter dear Mary declare dinner Doctor doubt Downe Wright dress Duchess of Altamont Duke of Altamont Emily's exclaimed eyes faults feel fortune Glenfern going Grace Griz Grizzy's hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope husband idea Lady Ju Lady Juliana Lady Maclaughlan Lady Matilda Ladyship Lochmarlie look Lord Glenallan Lord Lindore lover marriage married Mary felt Mary's ment mind Miss Douglas Miss Grizzy Miss Jacky mother nature neral ness never Nicky niece occasion passed passion pleasure poor Pullens Redgill Rose Hall seemed sentiments shew shirt-buttons sigh Sir Sampson sister smile soon sort soul spirit stupid sure sweet talk taste tears tell ther there's thing thought tion turned virtue wish wonder young
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Página 54 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 181 - I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear. She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 60 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Página 94 - A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god; Affects to nod And seems to shake the spheres.
Página 239 - And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb...
Página 239 - As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.
Página 58 - ... full glory, either at the rising or setting of it, he would be so transported and amazed, and so admire the glory of it, that he would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object to behold all the other various beauties this world could present to him.
Página 175 - ... and be lord paramount over kitchen and larder. His disappointment was therefore great at finding all the solid joys of red deer and moorgame, kippered salmon and mutton hams, ' vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Página 56 - These, and many other field flowers, so perfumed the air, that I thought that very meadow like that field in Sicily, of which Diodorus speaks, where the perfumes arising from the place make all dogs that hunt in it to fall off and lose their scent.
Página 55 - ... then left me ; that he had a plentiful estate, and not a heart to think so ; that he had at this time many law-suits depending, and that they both damped his mirth, and took up so much of his time and thoughts, that he himself had not leisure to take the sweet content that I, who pretended no title to them, took in his fields...