The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... passed away as the advocate sat down among the approving murmurs of the court , and his countenance became immediately clouded by the domestic grief which weighed upon his heart . This was a powerful lesson to the young Augustus , that ...
... passed away as the advocate sat down among the approving murmurs of the court , and his countenance became immediately clouded by the domestic grief which weighed upon his heart . This was a powerful lesson to the young Augustus , that ...
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... passed along , her eye was observed to wander in every direction , and to peruse every countenance that gazed at her , with an intensity which seemed to imply an expectation which she dreaded , yet wished to realize . As she entered the ...
... passed along , her eye was observed to wander in every direction , and to peruse every countenance that gazed at her , with an intensity which seemed to imply an expectation which she dreaded , yet wished to realize . As she entered the ...
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... passed from servant to servant , till they reached the doors of the reception - room . Even Amelia's quiet and controlled heart beat a little quicker as she was condescendingly noticed en passant by one of those sentences which are the ...
... passed from servant to servant , till they reached the doors of the reception - room . Even Amelia's quiet and controlled heart beat a little quicker as she was condescendingly noticed en passant by one of those sentences which are the ...
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... passed to others of more im- mediate interest to themselves . The whole of their own little histories were detailed to each other . Before their ice and quadrille was ended , Agnes had told her partner all the secrets of her nursery ...
... passed to others of more im- mediate interest to themselves . The whole of their own little histories were detailed to each other . Before their ice and quadrille was ended , Agnes had told her partner all the secrets of her nursery ...
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... passed the evening of her life as a divorcée , has been the mere victim of a tempo- rary and overwhelming passion , created and directed by some master - spirit of a libertine ; or whether her childhood had been characterized by that ...
... passed the evening of her life as a divorcée , has been the mere victim of a tempo- rary and overwhelming passion , created and directed by some master - spirit of a libertine ; or whether her childhood had been characterized by that ...
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Page 53 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 234 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 231 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 156 - I render you ; Only, this one : — Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see.
Page 72 - Which come, in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 223 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.
Page 212 - To charm me with thy softness : 'tis in vain : Thou can'st no more betray, nor I be ruin'd. The hours of folly, and of fond delight, Are wasted all, and fled ; those that remain Are doom'd to weeping, anguish, and repentance.
Page 226 - 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.
Page 84 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII She knew the Latin — that is, 'the Lord's prayer...
Page 241 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...