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... true in a moral sense , whatever it may be in a literal one . How many abhorrent words , just or unjust , probably both , is every one obliged to swal- low before he dies ! How many abhorrent truths must he hear ! It is in vain to ...
... true in a moral sense , whatever it may be in a literal one . How many abhorrent words , just or unjust , probably both , is every one obliged to swal- low before he dies ! How many abhorrent truths must he hear ! It is in vain to ...
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... true ; he will exactly suit one of the Miss Elvins . " Lord Altamont was full - dressed in his draw- ing - room precisely ten minutes before he ex- pected his guests , attended by his daughter , Miss Delamere and her brother , and the ...
... true ; he will exactly suit one of the Miss Elvins . " Lord Altamont was full - dressed in his draw- ing - room precisely ten minutes before he ex- pected his guests , attended by his daughter , Miss Delamere and her brother , and the ...
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... True , Lord Altamont was a good horseman and a bold rider ; but he cared little for sporting , and understood it less . He had promised himself some interest in Lord Jacob Wynne , who was a man on the turf- one who might be useful as ...
... True , Lord Altamont was a good horseman and a bold rider ; but he cared little for sporting , and understood it less . He had promised himself some interest in Lord Jacob Wynne , who was a man on the turf- one who might be useful as ...
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... true , he'll never bear it again . ' Meanwhile , Captain Blake , having inform- ed Billy White of his total failure in the scheme of the preceding night , the latter made use of this knowledge to be off ; and as yet he has evaded all ...
... true , he'll never bear it again . ' Meanwhile , Captain Blake , having inform- ed Billy White of his total failure in the scheme of the preceding night , the latter made use of this knowledge to be off ; and as yet he has evaded all ...
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... true to your patron , and so do I. But one good turn deserves another ; and it is high time that we assert our own rights . Life must not pass away thus ; we must lay our heads together , and see what can be done to right ourselves ...
... true to your patron , and so do I. But one good turn deserves another ; and it is high time that we assert our own rights . Life must not pass away thus ; we must lay our heads together , and see what can be done to right ourselves ...
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The Devoted, by the Authoress of 'The Disinherited' Charlotte Susan M Bury Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2015 |
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Сторінка 174 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Сторінка 192 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Сторінка 192 - I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I '11 so offend to make offence a skill ; Redeeming time when men think least I will.
Сторінка 319 - Tis done ! dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies ! How dumb the tuneful! Horror wide extends His desolate domain. Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Сторінка 55 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being...
Сторінка 224 - early to bed and early to rise, is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Сторінка 156 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Сторінка 132 - This makes the madmen who have made men mad By their contagion; Conquerors and Kings, Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool; Envied, yet how unenviable!
Сторінка 294 - Above, below, aerial murmurs swell, From hanging wood, brown heath, and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills, that shun the light, Stealing soft music on the ear of night.
Сторінка 56 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.