Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Том 321877 - 2 стор. |
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... wish to choose for his wife . Their physical tendencies would be so admirably counteracted , so beauti- fully balanced in the children ! And then she was so sweet and charming personally . It was such a glorious chance that inclina ...
... wish to choose for his wife . Their physical tendencies would be so admirably counteracted , so beauti- fully balanced in the children ! And then she was so sweet and charming personally . It was such a glorious chance that inclina ...
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... wish to live well , and to become really civilized , is to stop all unwise marriages . If a family has madness , for instance , in it'- he looked at her narrowly , but she went on working as calmly as before - still went on working ...
... wish to live well , and to become really civilized , is to stop all unwise marriages . If a family has madness , for instance , in it'- he looked at her narrowly , but she went on working as calmly as before - still went on working ...
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... wish her good - bye , he repeated the various items of the engagement as a lesson not to be forgotten : the first waltz ; the first galop - the coquette galop - poor Muriel ! the first mazurka and the first quadrille at the Brown de ...
... wish her good - bye , he repeated the various items of the engagement as a lesson not to be forgotten : the first waltz ; the first galop - the coquette galop - poor Muriel ! the first mazurka and the first quadrille at the Brown de ...
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... wish to be dishonourable even to a bad waltzer and on such a trifle as an engagement for a few dances , nor yet to quarrel with Mr. Perceval at all , she put in a little word of remonstrance , and said : ' But how can it be helped now ...
... wish to be dishonourable even to a bad waltzer and on such a trifle as an engagement for a few dances , nor yet to quarrel with Mr. Perceval at all , she put in a little word of remonstrance , and said : ' But how can it be helped now ...
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... wishes ? It is a pity to interfere , ' said Arthur , still stiff and unpleasant , in his secret heart too annoyed at Derwent's tone . It is such wretched taste for a man to assume this kind of command over a sister before other men ! He ...
... wishes ? It is a pity to interfere , ' said Arthur , still stiff and unpleasant , in his secret heart too annoyed at Derwent's tone . It is such wretched taste for a man to assume this kind of command over a sister before other men ! He ...
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Сторінка 32 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Сторінка 299 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Сторінка 445 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Сторінка 498 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green...
Сторінка 445 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Сторінка 210 - I must confess, had so much of the common notion of such things in my head, that I was apt to look upon them as the forerunners and warnings of God's judgments; and especially when, after the Plague had followed the first, I yet saw another of the like kind, I could not but say, God had not yet sufficiently scourged the city.
Сторінка 48 - America, the electric signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station in Norway the telegraphic apparatus was set fire to ; and at Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper.
Сторінка 197 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Сторінка 209 - The apprehensions of the people were likewise strangely increased by the error of the times, in which, I think, the people, from what principle I cannot imagine, were more addicted to prophecies and astrological conjurations, dreams, and old wives' tales than ever they were before or since. Whether this unhappy temper was originally raised by the follies of some people who got money by it, that is to say, by printing predictions and prognostications, I know not ; but certain it is, books...
Сторінка 97 - By the time I was four years old I read English perfectly, and having a great memory, I was carried to sermons; and while I was very young could remember and repeat them exactly, and being caressed, the love of praise tickled me, and made me attend more heedfully.