The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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Page 13
... scene was a new one , and every part of it af- forded her pleasure ; the people - the chandeliers - the house -the scenery - by turns extorted exclamations of childish delight ; and she was perpetually directing her mother's atten- tion ...
... scene was a new one , and every part of it af- forded her pleasure ; the people - the chandeliers - the house -the scenery - by turns extorted exclamations of childish delight ; and she was perpetually directing her mother's atten- tion ...
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... scene from the still - straining eyes of Agnes . And which of us does not remember the regret with which we in ... scenes of her own existence , 14 THE ROUÉ .
... scene from the still - straining eyes of Agnes . And which of us does not remember the regret with which we in ... scenes of her own existence , 14 THE ROUÉ .
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... scenes and circumstances recurred to her imagina- tion and remembrance , she mentally exclaimed- " Ought I not rather to school her into the insensibility of her sister , than encourage feelings which may blossom only to be blight- ed ...
... scenes and circumstances recurred to her imagina- tion and remembrance , she mentally exclaimed- " Ought I not rather to school her into the insensibility of her sister , than encourage feelings which may blossom only to be blight- ed ...
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... scenes in which active talent is employed , together with the perpetual exercise of ingenuity and eloquence , it generally makes the younger brother who is brought up to the bar , a pleasanter fellow and a more agreeable lover than the ...
... scenes in which active talent is employed , together with the perpetual exercise of ingenuity and eloquence , it generally makes the younger brother who is brought up to the bar , a pleasanter fellow and a more agreeable lover than the ...
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... scene that its cliffs and arid promenades pre- sented . - Young ladies were seen equestrianising on donkeys to the Devil's Dyke ; and elderly matrons airing in flies , with bodies which , in comparison with their carriages , appeared ...
... scene that its cliffs and arid promenades pre- sented . - Young ladies were seen equestrianising on donkeys to the Devil's Dyke ; and elderly matrons airing in flies , with bodies which , in comparison with their carriages , appeared ...
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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...