Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre, Հատոր 2B. Tauchnitz, 1846 - 440 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 99–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 11
... less reluctance to enter into com- munication with him : but it was difficult to convey this fact to her without wounding her feelings . When he reached the house and knocked , he was still undecided as to the course he should pursue ...
... less reluctance to enter into com- munication with him : but it was difficult to convey this fact to her without wounding her feelings . When he reached the house and knocked , he was still undecided as to the course he should pursue ...
Էջ 12
... less step , the poor woman who during the past week had so much occupied his thoughts . Her shrunken form and flushed cheeks revealed the fatal progress of a disease which betrays its victims all the more surely , by imparting to them ...
... less step , the poor woman who during the past week had so much occupied his thoughts . Her shrunken form and flushed cheeks revealed the fatal progress of a disease which betrays its victims all the more surely , by imparting to them ...
Էջ 16
... less wildly , or to hate less fiercely . Forgive me , forgive me , Mr. Lacy ! Oh , do not turn away from me ! God has sent you to me as an angel of mercy , not as the minister of his wrath . You bade me confess my sins . See , I confess ...
... less wildly , or to hate less fiercely . Forgive me , forgive me , Mr. Lacy ! Oh , do not turn away from me ! God has sent you to me as an angel of mercy , not as the minister of his wrath . You bade me confess my sins . See , I confess ...
Էջ 18
... less calmly reproved when I was wrong , and more warmly praised when I was right . 1 Till the age of six years old , I am not conscious of having loved any human being . From accidental circumstances my nurses had been so often changed ...
... less calmly reproved when I was wrong , and more warmly praised when I was right . 1 Till the age of six years old , I am not conscious of having loved any human being . From accidental circumstances my nurses had been so often changed ...
Էջ 20
... less excitement in conversing with my aunt , than in reading with her . She never took a common - place view of any subject , or shrunk from ex- pressing her real opinion upon it , whatever it might be . With regard to her own feelings ...
... less excitement in conversing with my aunt , than in reading with her . She never took a common - place view of any subject , or shrunk from ex- pressing her real opinion upon it , whatever it might be . With regard to her own feelings ...
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Էջ 59 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Էջ 264 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Էջ 55 - is wife (Not to mention the 'ousemaid an' cook), To come in an' 'ands up an' be still, An' honestly work for my bread, My livin' in that state of life To which it shall please God to call Me!
Էջ 166 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in ! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin, — Ay, there, look grim as hell ! Des.
Էջ 14 - PEACE be to this house, and to all that dwell in it. IT When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say, kneeling down, REMEMBER not, LORD, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers ; Spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood ; and be not angry with us for ever.
Էջ 88 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Էջ 30 - I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within. MACB. Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Էջ 234 - If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Էջ 182 - I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Էջ 259 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!