The Tale Book: Second SeriesBaudry's European Library, 1835 - 423 páginas |
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... wishes , Paris . There was wild work in Paris then . The poor king , Charles the Sixth , now sane , now mad , now a monarch , now an abject slave , was the very mockery of humanity . The queen , the dauphin , the Duke of Burgundy ...
... wishes , Paris . There was wild work in Paris then . The poor king , Charles the Sixth , now sane , now mad , now a monarch , now an abject slave , was the very mockery of humanity . The queen , the dauphin , the Duke of Burgundy ...
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... wish to play me false , to render up the unlawful spoil . Our warm life - blood must mingle to make and to mar the charm . Enough of this unholy theme . I was persuaded — the thing was done . The morrow dawned upon me as I lay upon the ...
... wish to play me false , to render up the unlawful spoil . Our warm life - blood must mingle to make and to mar the charm . Enough of this unholy theme . I was persuaded — the thing was done . The morrow dawned upon me as I lay upon the ...
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... of social life , nor wear before you the mask of reserved politeness . I cannot say farewell to one whom I wish every ill . I leave you now , my living , loathed , and loathing foe ; when next we separate 5 * MISERRIMUS . 67.
... of social life , nor wear before you the mask of reserved politeness . I cannot say farewell to one whom I wish every ill . I leave you now , my living , loathed , and loathing foe ; when next we separate 5 * MISERRIMUS . 67.
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... wish , I was conscious that I still loved her whose destruction was the object of it ? -Yet such was my inmost feeling , for such is mortal consistency ! But , resolved as I am to endure the pang of representing my character minutely ...
... wish , I was conscious that I still loved her whose destruction was the object of it ? -Yet such was my inmost feeling , for such is mortal consistency ! But , resolved as I am to endure the pang of representing my character minutely ...
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... wish to woo her ? or , did I wish to devote her to the fate of her brother ? I was inflamed by neither of these motives separately , but by a combination of them all , and of all the inconsistent passions which ever agitated the human ...
... wish to woo her ? or , did I wish to devote her to the fate of her brother ? I was inflamed by neither of these motives separately , but by a combination of them all , and of all the inconsistent passions which ever agitated the human ...
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Adoni-bezek agony Alick appeared arms beautiful beneath bless bosom brother cheek cottage count countenance countess cousin Cressingham cried dark daughter death despair dread Dublin mountains Duc de Valois earth Ehrenbreitstein Esdras exclaimed eyes face father fear feelings felt Francis gazed girl grew Guahiba hand happiness Harold's Cross head heard heart heaven honour hope hour husband Jessie Kearneys Keswycke knew lady Lelia Leoni light lips living Lolah looked lord lover marriage Mary Mary of England Medora Milicent mind morning mother nature never night once pale Palermo passed passion poor priest replied rose round Saint Stephen seemed Shawfield side sister smile soon sorrow soul spirit step stood Suffolk tears tell Therese thing thou thought tion tone tree trembled turned Upas Tree utter Venice VIROFLAY voice Watty wife wild woman words y'er young youth Zuleika
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Página 33 - I loved display, and, above all, I threw all control far from me. Who could control me in Paris ? My young friends were eager to foster passions which furnished them with pleasures. I was deemed handsome — I was master of every knightly accomplishment. I was disconnected with any political party. I grew a favourite with all : my presumption and arrogance was pardoned in one so young: I became a spoiled child. Who could control me ? not the letters and advice of Torella — only strong necessity...
Página 125 - And it came to pass, when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying lay hold on him. And his band, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
Página 117 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die : I think, there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him : — A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Página 30 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Página 275 - Beauteous in a wilderness, Who, praying always, prays in sleep. And, if she move unquietly, Perchance, 'tis but the blood so free Comes back and tingles in her feet. No doubt, she hath a vision sweet. What if her guardian spirit 'twere, What if she knew her mother near? But this she knows, in joys and woes, That saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all!
Página 116 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Página 169 - That refusal," continued the lady, " my poor mother could not forgive ; she never did forgive it, and I believe that her anger is still over me, for what I have since suffered seems like a curse. My mother's disapprobation of my refusal of this desirable match had a complicated origin. She believed, and rightly too, that I discarded her favourite, not only upon the negative feeling of indifference or dislike towards him, but because I secretly preferred another. She was right " " And you " " Stay,"...
Página 125 - Adoni-bezek said, Three-score and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Página 163 - still flourishes ; in that, is the principal scene of my embarrassment laid ; and to that admirable, neat, and expeditious equipage must I endeavor to attract your attention for some ten minutes. It was one day in the autumn of 1829, just as the Pavilion clock was striking three, that I stepped into Mr. Goodman's coach. In it, I found already a thin stripling enveloped in a fur pelisse, the only distinguishing mark of whose sex was a tuft of mustachio on his upper lip. He wore a travelling-cap on...
Página 38 - ... fellow-creatures, battling, how hopelessly, with annihilation. Methought I saw them struggling — too truly did I hear their shrieks, conquering the barking surges in their shrill agony. The dark breakers threw hither and thither the fragments of the wreck : soon it disappeared. I had been fascinated to gaze till the end: at last I sank on my knees — I covered my face with my hands : I again looked up ; something was floating on the billows towards the shore. It neared and neared. Was that...