A Modern ChronicleMacmillan, 1910 - 524 էջ |
Բովանդակություն
| 1 | |
| 8 | |
| 18 | |
| 32 | |
| 44 | |
| 45 | |
| 47 | |
| 81 | |
| 94 | |
| 106 | |
| 124 | |
| 140 | |
| 146 | |
| 154 | |
| 172 | |
| 220 | |
| 234 | |
| 246 | |
| 258 | |
| 280 | |
| 394 | |
| 405 | |
| 414 | |
| 430 | |
| 440 | |
| 452 | |
| 464 | |
| 476 | |
| 487 | |
| 508 | |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
answered arms asked Honora Aunt Mary believe carriage Cecil Grainger Chandos cigarette colour Cousin Eleanor Cuthbert dear declared dinner door dress exclaimed Honora eyes face Farwell father feel felt friends gazing glanced gone gown Grenoble Hanbury hand happiness heard Holt Holt family Holt's Howard Spence husband Joshua Kame kissed knew lady laughed Leffingwell letters light Lily Dallam LION TAMING live looked lunch madame maid marriage married Mathilde Miss morning never Newport night once paused perhaps Peter Erwin phaëtons porch Quicksands remark replied Honora Rindge Rivington rose seemed Shorter silent Silverdale Simpson smiled stared stood strange suddenly sure surprised Susan talk tell things thought to-day to-night told took Trixton Brent Trixy Trowbridge turned Uncle Uncle Tom Vicomte voice walked watched window Wing wish woman women wonderful words York young
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 85 - The Man shall answer, I will. If Then shall the Minister say unto the Woman, NWILT thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony ? Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honour, . and keep him in sickness and in health; and, / forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, / so long as ye both shall Ywe 1 MATRIMONY. IT The Woman shall answer, I will. ' Then shall the Minister say, Who giveth this Woman to be married to this Man...
Էջ 271 - No such piece of inimitable comedy in a literary way has appeared for years. ... It is the purest, keenest fun." — Chicago Inter-Ocean. Richard Carvel Illustrated ". . . In breadth of canvas, massing of dramatic effect, depth of feeling, and rare wholesomeness of spirit, it has seldom, if ever, been surpassed by ail American romance." — Chicago Tribune. The Crossing Illustrated " ' The Crossing ' is a thoroughly interesting book, packed with exciting adventure and sentimental incident, yet faithful...
Էջ 271 - The Dial. The Crisis Illustrated " It is a charming love story, and never loses its interest. . . . The intense political bitterness, the intense patriotism of both parties, are shown under standingly.
Էջ 25 - I made, thirty years back. My only excuse for giving them is that they are so singularly prophetic. The reminding tune (an old French chime which my father used to sing) is very simple and touching; and the old French words run thus: "Orleans, Beaugency! Notre Dame de Cleryl Vendome! Vendome! Quel chagrin, quel ennui De compter toute la nuit Les heures — Les heures!
Էջ 272 - Schools of fiction have come and gone, but Mr. Crawford has always remained in favor. There are two reasons for this continued popularity; he always had a story to tell, and he knew how to tell it. He was a born story-teUer, and what is more rare, a trained one.
Էջ 9 - What in the world are we going to do with all these things ? " said Peter. " We ? " cried Honora. " When we get married, I mean," said Peter, smiling at Uncle Tom.
Էջ 270 - ... of me. If I had only been able to see clearly from the first, Peter, I should be another woman to-day, a whole woman, a wise woman. Oh, I have thought of it much. The secret of life was there at my side from the time I was able to pronounce your name, and I couldn't see it. You had it. You stayed. You took duty where you found it, and it has made you great.
Էջ 245 - Perhaps, at sight of the relentlessness in his eyes, hope left her, and she sank down on a chair and buried her face in her hands, her voice broken by sobs.
Էջ 22 - Mrs. Wharton is not guilty of expressing the fact in the same cloying terms; it is this rose-colored future which is withheld from Honora Leffingwell in Churchill's Modern Chronicle until she has learned that "The greatest wonders are not at the ends of the earth, but near us" 50 and that being 49 Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rose o'the River (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905), p.
Էջ 133 - ... suffragette"; her highest praise comes from a country woman who says she will "make a good wife for somebody." She is a feminine feminist, "one that might have governed a province and yet still have been a woman." Although each heroine wishes at least once that she were a man, although each possesses a "quality which, in a man, leads to a career and fame...