The Three Perils of Woman; Or, Love, Leasing and Jealousy: A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales, Հատոր 1E. Duyckinck, 1823 |
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Արդյունքներ 91–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... Bell , as she first awakened in her solitary bed in the garret room of her father's farm - house . " And what a business I am like to have of it ! I have had such a night dream dreaming , and all about one person ; and now I shall have ...
... Bell , as she first awakened in her solitary bed in the garret room of her father's farm - house . " And what a business I am like to have of it ! I have had such a night dream dreaming , and all about one person ; and now I shall have ...
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... Bell talked about markets , and his pastoral vocations . Mrs. Bell knew but little of these matters , yet , good woman , she pretended to know a great deal , and to give her husband most sapient ad- vices , which sometimes were not ...
... Bell talked about markets , and his pastoral vocations . Mrs. Bell knew but little of these matters , yet , good woman , she pretended to know a great deal , and to give her husband most sapient ad- vices , which sometimes were not ...
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... Bell , that's astonishing ; did you actually sell a single sheep for fifty pounds ? " said the good dame . " I did that , hinney ; but then it was a toop , ye maun recollect , and nae common toop either . " 66 A toop ! What do you mean ...
... Bell , that's astonishing ; did you actually sell a single sheep for fifty pounds ? " said the good dame . " I did that , hinney ; but then it was a toop , ye maun recollect , and nae common toop either . " 66 A toop ! What do you mean ...
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... Bell ; there are plenty of gentlemen and farmers in Britain and Ireland who want an improved breed of sheep ; and supposing they did not bring all fifty pounds each , say that a part of them brought only forty pounds a head , I conceive ...
... Bell ; there are plenty of gentlemen and farmers in Britain and Ireland who want an improved breed of sheep ; and supposing they did not bring all fifty pounds each , say that a part of them brought only forty pounds a head , I conceive ...
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... Bell , I am going to say what I have said always , that she will learn much more of what is useful and estimable in life here with me than in Edinburgh ; and that I conceive all the money expend- ed on a boarding - school education as ...
... Bell , I am going to say what I have said always , that she will learn much more of what is useful and estimable in life here with me than in Edinburgh ; and that I conceive all the money expend- ed on a boarding - school education as ...
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Էջ 92 - O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple hell? O fie! Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
Էջ 92 - That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin ; That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded...
Էջ 247 - O all-mighty an' just God, who can fathom the depth of thy judgment? It is higher than heaven, what can we do; it is deeper than hell, what can we understand? What shall we, or what can we, do to appease thy displeasure? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, or the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? If thou requirest it, I must; but, in the mean time, we leave with thee this night two broken an' contrite spirits, an' bow to thy decision, whatever it may be.
Էջ 247 - It is higher than heaven, what can we do: it is deeper than hell, what can we know: the measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea...