The Ladies' CompanionBradbury and Evans, 1861 |
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... dear sir , we'll be back to - morrow . I have seen a Nubian sunset , a few miles farther south than Juvenal was , when he considered himself banished to the limits of the great Roman Empire . And shall I condescend to record my ...
... dear sir , we'll be back to - morrow . I have seen a Nubian sunset , a few miles farther south than Juvenal was , when he considered himself banished to the limits of the great Roman Empire . And shall I condescend to record my ...
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... dear , Might stir thine heart and give thy brow The glow of joy which lights it now . Ah ! thy thoughts are far away , Dreaming of a bygone day , Whose blissful hours still can cheer ; When a voice was in thine ear , Whose tones are ...
... dear , Might stir thine heart and give thy brow The glow of joy which lights it now . Ah ! thy thoughts are far away , Dreaming of a bygone day , Whose blissful hours still can cheer ; When a voice was in thine ear , Whose tones are ...
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... dear old lady a letter - ay , and a note , too ; for the butler gave him one when he carried up the bag , an hour ago , to Lestwardine House . So he turns ( still whistling ) through a wide white gate , into a short winding steep road ...
... dear old lady a letter - ay , and a note , too ; for the butler gave him one when he carried up the bag , an hour ago , to Lestwardine House . So he turns ( still whistling ) through a wide white gate , into a short winding steep road ...
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... dear ! many and many a one mourns it ; for there's no like for his skill hereabouts . " " Poor Charles ! Poor brother ! " says the aged woman , mournfully , as she presses her hands one into the other , with a mute expression of woe ...
... dear ! many and many a one mourns it ; for there's no like for his skill hereabouts . " " Poor Charles ! Poor brother ! " says the aged woman , mournfully , as she presses her hands one into the other , with a mute expression of woe ...
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... dear Will , " she says , " but we will have a fire here presently , and play the part of gentility in the afternoon . I am obliged to be economical of labour amongst other things . " " You keep no servant ? " " No ! not at present ...
... dear Will , " she says , " but we will have a fire here presently , and play the part of gentility in the afternoon . I am obliged to be economical of labour amongst other things . " " You keep no servant ? " " No ! not at present ...
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Էջ 143 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Էջ 142 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Էջ 143 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Էջ 273 - Marner's face and figure shrank and bent themselves into a constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life, so that he produced the same sort of impression as a handle or a crooked tube, which has no meaning standing apart.
Էջ 210 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Էջ 159 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Էջ 150 - ... of supplicating terror, as perfectly overcame me. I immediately untied it, and restored it to life and liberty. The agonies of a prisoner at the stake, while the fire and instruments of...
Էջ 180 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Էջ 234 - They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the great wave that echoes round the world...
Էջ 245 - We are glad, the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present, and your pains, we thank you for : When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set. Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard...