Courtship and wedlock; or, Lovers and husbands, by the author of 'Cousin Geoffrey'. |
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... manner , which make it , to our minds , as original as it is fascinating . All these peculiarities were , however , much more prominently marked in the character of Miss Jenny Macpherson , an old Scotch aunt of Mrs. Orde's , who ...
... manner , which make it , to our minds , as original as it is fascinating . All these peculiarities were , however , much more prominently marked in the character of Miss Jenny Macpherson , an old Scotch aunt of Mrs. Orde's , who ...
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... manner , wounding with coaxing words , and stabbing with a soft smile . She hated her sister - in - law , and she loathed her nieces ; the more so , as even to a mother's eye the Ordes , as they grew to womanhood , surpassed the ...
... manner , wounding with coaxing words , and stabbing with a soft smile . She hated her sister - in - law , and she loathed her nieces ; the more so , as even to a mother's eye the Ordes , as they grew to womanhood , surpassed the ...
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... manner dejected . She spoke hopelessly of herself , disparagingly of her daughters , bitterly of her sons - in - law . " " And na ' withoot cause , I'm thinking , " said Miss Jenny . " Why , yes , afterwards , aunt , it seemed without ...
... manner dejected . She spoke hopelessly of herself , disparagingly of her daughters , bitterly of her sons - in - law . " " And na ' withoot cause , I'm thinking , " said Miss Jenny . " Why , yes , afterwards , aunt , it seemed without ...
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... manner so regardless of expense , but that they meant to defray it all entirely themselves . " " Their regardlessness of expense ought to have con- vinced her , vain fool , that it was her expense they were regardless o❜ - mon is never ...
... manner so regardless of expense , but that they meant to defray it all entirely themselves . " " Their regardlessness of expense ought to have con- vinced her , vain fool , that it was her expense they were regardless o❜ - mon is never ...
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... manner , and gradually gliding ( unconsciously , perhaps ) , in spite of all that had passed , into boasts of her daughters ' splendid matches , and pitying and disparaging prognostics about you , my love . " " I was sa disgusted wi ...
... manner , and gradually gliding ( unconsciously , perhaps ) , in spite of all that had passed , into boasts of her daughters ' splendid matches , and pitying and disparaging prognostics about you , my love . " " I was sa disgusted wi ...
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Términos y frases comunes
actress admiration adored Allworthy aunt aunt Jenny Baron de Saint beauty believe bosom bride Brighton Capitaine Crèvecœur Captain Symons CHAPTER charms cheek chinchilla Clarissa cold Colonel Pevensey Count de Montfaucon countess cousin dare darling daughters dear dearest delight Der Freischutz devotion dreadful dress Earl of Chester exquisite eyes face fancy fear feel felt foreign forgive gentle Gerard Esdaile girl Gonzalve hand happy haughty heard heart honour hope husband jealousy Jeannetta Jenny Macpherson knew Lady Beauchamp laugh letter lips look lover Macpherson mamma marriage marry mind miserable Miss Jenny mother never niece noble once Orde Orde's pale papa passion Patience perhaps Pevensey's Phoebe poor Violet pretty pride proud rienced Rosalie Rosalie's Saint Felix seemed sister smile soul spirit sweet tears tenderness thou thought tion trembling Tunbridge Valentine Woodville vanity watch wife wild woman wretched young young doctor
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Página 65 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Página 9 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit or confectionery plum ; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh they shone and glowed...
Página 66 - Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Página 66 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Página 66 - Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo! If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 72 - Oh, Love ! what is it in this world of ours, Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh...
Página 9 - Which colour'd all his objects:— he had ceased To live within himself; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all: upon a tone, A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, And his cheek change tempestuously— his heart Unknowing of its cause of agony.
Página 103 - If she be not fair for me, what care I how fair she be ? " But he did care, and he told himself that the song did him no good.
Página 279 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 147 - Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow.