The Three Perils of Woman; Or, Love, Leasing and Jealousy: A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales, Հատոր 1E. Duyckinck, 1823 |
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... Answer . Guilty . Again , ' You measure all excellencies by his person and qua- lities . ' Sure it is impossible you can do that ? Answer in conscience . 66 I am afraid I cannot plead off . " You long and desire to look on him , yet ...
... Answer . Guilty . Again , ' You measure all excellencies by his person and qua- lities . ' Sure it is impossible you can do that ? Answer in conscience . 66 I am afraid I cannot plead off . " You long and desire to look on him , yet ...
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... answer with marked indifference , if not rather with disdain . She retired to a distant seat at the end of the sofa , leaned her rosy cheek on the points of her thumb and fingers , and assumed a look of cold abstraction , fre- quently ...
... answer with marked indifference , if not rather with disdain . She retired to a distant seat at the end of the sofa , leaned her rosy cheek on the points of her thumb and fingers , and assumed a look of cold abstraction , fre- quently ...
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... answer it , because I know it is not spoken with your wonted sincerity . It is easy to know affectation from simple truth . Who is so pur- blind as not to see how differently you feel from what you express ? " " Honest Mrs. Johnson had ...
... answer it , because I know it is not spoken with your wonted sincerity . It is easy to know affectation from simple truth . Who is so pur- blind as not to see how differently you feel from what you express ? " " Honest Mrs. Johnson had ...
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... answering , like a true Scotsinan , one question with another . Would you have me to stay here and be your gentleman usher ? What is to become of a ' at hame , or wha's to keep you here if I neglect my ewes and my lambs , my Cheviot woo ...
... answering , like a true Scotsinan , one question with another . Would you have me to stay here and be your gentleman usher ? What is to become of a ' at hame , or wha's to keep you here if I neglect my ewes and my lambs , my Cheviot woo ...
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... answer me , for I was grieved at being left behind . And I saw a winding - path through flow- ery shrubs , and ran alongst it , asking every one whom I saw , if that was the way ; and they all said , ' Yes . ' I asked my mother , and ...
... answer me , for I was grieved at being left behind . And I saw a winding - path through flow- ery shrubs , and ran alongst it , asking every one whom I saw , if that was the way ; and they all said , ' Yes . ' I asked my mother , and ...
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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...