Eustace Conway, Or, The Brother and Sister: A Novel, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1834 |
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Eustace Conway, Or, the Brother and Sister: A Novel;, Volume 1 Frederick Denison Maurice No preview available - 2018 |
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abducer acquaintance affection aunt beautiful believe brother Burschen Burschenschaft called Captain Marryatt Carbonari character conversation dare dear delight dili dreams Edward Mortimer England Eustace Eustace Conway exclaimed eyes faith fancy father fear feelings felt footman Francisca Franklin Freemasons gentleman German girl Grosvenor Place happy Hartenfield hear heard heart Heaven hero Honoria hope Johnson kind knew Kreutzner Lady Edward laugh letter living London looked Maria mean ment mind Miss Conway Miss Duncan Miss Vyvyan Miss Wharton mistress morning Morton never night notion once opinion Pantheism passed person physiognomy Quakeress racter recollections Rumbold scarcely seemed servant Seville sister smile society soon soul speak spirit strange suppose sure tain talk tell thing thou thought tion told truth turned uttered voice walked Weissenfels Wilhelm Schroeder wish woman words young lady Zieschen
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Page 103 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 74 - As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own. Learning has borne such fruit in other days On all her branches; piety has found Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer Has flowed from lips wet with Castalian dews.
Page 80 - ... a supply of good ordinary men is to attempt nothing higher. I know that nine-tenths of those whom the University sends out must be hewers of •wood and drawers of water ; but, if I train the ten-tenths to be so, depend upon it the wood will be badly cut, the water will be spilt.
Page 247 - More like a grave reality: Thou art to me but as a wave Of the wild sea : and I would have Some claim upon thee, if I could, Though but of common neighbourhood. What joy to hear thee, and to see ! Thy elder brother I would be, Thy father, anything to thee.
Page 247 - Adopt your homely ways, and dress, A Shepherd, thou a Shepherdess ! But I could frame a wish for thee More like a grave reality: Thou art to me but as a wave Of the wild sea; and I would have Some claim upon thee, if I could, Though but of common neighbourhood. What joy to hear thee, and...
Page 162 - That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced it not, though he foresaw the will.
Page 150 - Yet cousin, Even from the bottom of these miseries, From all that fortune can inflict upon us, I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings, If the gods please to hold here ; a brave patience, And the enjoying of our griefs together.
Page 26 - Oh, most noble sir, Though I have lost my fortune, and lost you For a worthy father, yet I will not lose My former virtue ; my integrity Shall not yet forsake me : But as the wild ivy Spreads and thrives better in some piteous ruin Of tower, or defaced temple, than it does Planted by a new building, so shall I Make my adversity my instrument To wind me up into a full content.
Page 188 - Faith evermore looks upwards and descries Objects remote ; but reason can discover Things only near — sees nothing that's above her : They are not matches— often disagree, And sometimes both are clos'd, and neither see.
Page 26 - I have lost my fortune, and lost you For a worthy father, yet I will not lose My former virtue ; my integrity Shall not yet forsake me : but, as the wild ivy Spreads and thrives better in some piteous ruin Of tower or defac'd temple than it does Planted by a new building, so shall I Make my adversity my instrument To wind me up into a full content. Alb. 'Tis worthily resolved. Our first adventure Is to stop the marriage : for thy other losses, Practised by a woman's malice, but account them Like...