Penruddock, by the author of 'Waltzburg'.1835 |
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Page 86
... painful scenes dwell so strongly on the memory ! -there was a dreadful bustle , -frightful shrieks were , and are even now , ringing in my ears ; they came from every part of the house , and I could neither find you nor my lovely friend ...
... painful scenes dwell so strongly on the memory ! -there was a dreadful bustle , -frightful shrieks were , and are even now , ringing in my ears ; they came from every part of the house , and I could neither find you nor my lovely friend ...
Page 88
... painful than his habitual grief . Laura found the most effectual method of drawing her father from his settled sadness was to question him respecting some event of history , or any subject which occurred in her morning's study . Mr ...
... painful than his habitual grief . Laura found the most effectual method of drawing her father from his settled sadness was to question him respecting some event of history , or any subject which occurred in her morning's study . Mr ...
Page 93
... be to the memory of my mother , and how strong must have been his love . Love : I have read much of that passion ; but I have no idea of the feeling . It must be a painful Who state . I hope I shall never experience a PENRUDDOCK . 93.
... be to the memory of my mother , and how strong must have been his love . Love : I have read much of that passion ; but I have no idea of the feeling . It must be a painful Who state . I hope I shall never experience a PENRUDDOCK . 93.
Page 95
... which perhaps contributed to keep alive this painful feeling , and had Laura been of a sombre disposition , they might have saddened her temper , and have given a gloomy and melancholy tinge to her character ; fortunately 95.
... which perhaps contributed to keep alive this painful feeling , and had Laura been of a sombre disposition , they might have saddened her temper , and have given a gloomy and melancholy tinge to her character ; fortunately 95.
Page 126
... painful to me . " " I will , Weston , and promise not again to recur to what you forbid ; but on condition that you answer me one question . " " Do not , pray , my dear Miss Penruddock , my dearest child , ask what I must refuse ! 126 ...
... painful to me . " " I will , Weston , and promise not again to recur to what you forbid ; but on condition that you answer me one question . " " Do not , pray , my dear Miss Penruddock , my dearest child , ask what I must refuse ! 126 ...
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Page 219 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 57 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 103 - midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Page 48 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 99 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 32 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 13 - As nothing did we die; but life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste...
Page 136 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 120 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 69 - Boon nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child. Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale and violet flower Found in each cliff a narrow bower...