Autobiography and Letters of Arthur CourtenayT. Hookham, 1834 - 216 стор. |
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acquainted Adolphe amongst amusement appeared arrived Arthur attached Bareilly Beau Sejour Lodge beautiful became beheld Benares Brighton brother Calcutta Cashmere charm charming girl child Corfu Courtenay dark daughter dear death delight desire Emily endeavoured England enjoy Eugenie evidently eyes Fanny father feel fell felt fond fortune garden gazing girl Hampstead hand happy HEADLONG HALL heard heart hookah horse hour husband Hussein Khan imagined India intelligence jackall leave letter lips live lute Mainwaring Marquis marriage matchlock Mehtur Mehtur Ali melancholy Merrivale mind morning native Nautch girl never night Noorjehan OLD BOND STREET once palanquin party passed passion pinnace pistol poor possess present resided ride river Rohilla rushed scene scream seated seen servants Shaw sight sister soon sorrow suppose Surrey tastes tears thought tion turned uttered victim Walkinshaw whilst woman words youth Zenana
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Сторінка 117 - They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; A shudder comes o'er me — Why wert thou so dear? They know not I knew thee Who knew thee too well : Long, long shall I rue thee Too deeply to tell.
Сторінка 143 - While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave.
Сторінка 36 - Then there were sighs, the deeper for suppression, And stolen glances, sweeter for the theft, And burning blushes, though for no transgression, Tremblings when met, and restlessness when left...
Сторінка 202 - Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely; And at his elbow, Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. The night drave on wi...
Сторінка 113 - Solomon, there is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the issues thereof are the wages of death; for howsoever a lewd woman please thee for a time, thou wilt hate her in the end, and she will study to destroy thee.
Сторінка 167 - (with that word His trembling hands presented me a sword ;) ' Your father sends you this ; and lets you know That your own crimes the use of it will show.
Сторінка 100 - Furthermore, if it be late ere thou take a wife, thou shalt spend thy prime and summer of thy life with harlots, destroy thy health, impoverish thy estate, and endanger thy life ; and be sure of this, that how many mistresses soever thou hast, so many enemies thou shalt purchase to thyself; for there never was any such affection, which ended not in hatred or disdain. Remember the saying of Solomon, there is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the issues thereof are the wages of death...
Сторінка 56 - In this forest a rebel chief is by many supposed to have lurked the last seven years, for whose apprehension Government have vainly offered no less a sum than 10,000 rupees. Many robberies are, certainly, still perpetrated in his name ; but the opinion of the magistrates at Shahjehanpoor is, that the man is really dead, and that his name only, like that of Captain Rock, remains as the rallying point of mutiny. The military officers of our...
Сторінка 212 - Some portions of the story are such as Goethe himself, in some fit of morbid enthusiasm, might have embodied in poetical prose.
Сторінка 21 - For what rude heart ummoved may brook The magic in a woman's look ? Heaven hath its star, — a woman's eve, Itself a little sky, Makes even saints, contented here, Think these make heaven in every sphere.