Viola; or, 'Tis an old tale and often told, by I. Goldsmid, Volumen2G. Routledge, 1852 - 212 páginas |
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Isabel Goldsmid. VIOLA , OR , ' TIS AN OLD TALE , AND OFTEN TOLD . CHAPTER I. Earth has one boon for all her children - death : Open thy arms , O mother ! and receive me ! Take off the bitter burthen from the slave , Give me my ...
Isabel Goldsmid. VIOLA , OR , ' TIS AN OLD TALE , AND OFTEN TOLD . CHAPTER I. Earth has one boon for all her children - death : Open thy arms , O mother ! and receive me ! Take off the bitter burthen from the slave , Give me my ...
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... 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 . " " Ah ! that is what every one says at first , Miss ; but you ...
... 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 . " " Ah ! that is what every one says at first , Miss ; but you ...
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... told a tale of neglected housewifery . He then seated himself , and after balancing the chair to and fro for a few seconds , com- menced as follows : - : - " This is a sad affliction , cousin Dorothy . " I bowed my head , for I could ...
... told a tale of neglected housewifery . He then seated himself , and after balancing the chair to and fro for a few seconds , com- menced as follows : - : - " This is a sad affliction , cousin Dorothy . " I bowed my head , for I could ...
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... the swollen eyelid , the cheek yet blistering with the tears they have shed on quitting the paternal roof for the first time , or on leaving the adopted home dearer to them , perchance , than the home of AND OFTEN TOLD . 7.
... the swollen eyelid , the cheek yet blistering with the tears they have shed on quitting the paternal roof for the first time , or on leaving the adopted home dearer to them , perchance , than the home of AND OFTEN TOLD . 7.
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... dressed , so I purpose adding five pounds per annum to your little stock , which will make your yearly income twenty - five pounds : my wife thinks that upon this sum you may do very well . Only be careful . Never run AND OFTEN TOLD . 9.
... dressed , so I purpose adding five pounds per annum to your little stock , which will make your yearly income twenty - five pounds : my wife thinks that upon this sum you may do very well . Only be careful . Never run AND OFTEN TOLD . 9.
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Viola; or, 'Tis an old tale and often told, by I. Goldsmid, Volumen2 Isabel Goldsmid Vista completa - 1852 |
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agony Allonby answer apartment arms asked asso beautiful believe brow carriage CHAPTER cheek child counting-house daughter Dear cousin Dorothy dear Viola Dick Sidney dread dress exclaimed eyes father fear feel felt Frank Herbert gaze gentleman girl give Green Hoskins 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 Middleton mind mingled Miss Brookes Miss Page Miss Sharpe Miss Sidney morning mother never night observed once pale passed pause perhaps person poor quadrille replied rose scarcely seemed seen Sidney's sighed sister smile sorrow speak spirit spoke sure tears tell thing thou thought threw to-morrow told tone trousseau Turretcliff Viola Sidney voice weep whilst wife woman word young ladies youth
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Página 204 - 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 13 - 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 58 - 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 27 - ... 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 25 - Rigour now is gone to bed, And advice, with scrupulous head, Strict age, and sour severity, With their grave saws, in slumber lie.
Página 204 - 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, our sides...
Página 77 - 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 83 - 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 106 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Página 135 - See where she stands ! a mortal shape indued With love and life and light and deity, And motion which may change but cannot die; An image of some bright Eternity...