The Three Perils of Woman; Or, Love, Leasing and Jealousy: A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales, Հատոր 1E. Duyckinck, 1823 |
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... head appeared quite deformed with a great protuberance on the one side . " It is not yet my accustomed time of rising , " said Gatty again to herself . " I will examine myself with regard to these feelings , that are as strange as they ...
... head appeared quite deformed with a great protuberance on the one side . " It is not yet my accustomed time of rising , " said Gatty again to herself . " I will examine myself with regard to these feelings , that are as strange as they ...
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... head , and sat for a space the very portrait of contem- plation ; then , after a long - drawn sigh , she said to her- self in a whisper , " Then it is a melancholy fact , that I positively am in love ! What says one who knows the world ...
... head , and sat for a space the very portrait of contem- plation ; then , after a long - drawn sigh , she said to her- self in a whisper , " Then it is a melancholy fact , that I positively am in love ! What says one who knows the world ...
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... head , I conceive your profits would be immense . Gracious heaven , Mr. Bell ! fifty scores of tupes , at fifty pounds each , would be no less than fifty thousand pounds a year . " 99 " Odds curses , woman , dinna drive a body mad wi ...
... head , I conceive your profits would be immense . Gracious heaven , Mr. Bell ! fifty scores of tupes , at fifty pounds each , would be no less than fifty thousand pounds a year . " 99 " Odds curses , woman , dinna drive a body mad wi ...
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... head as the pouch , and turn to as good account too ; and granting that the bits o ' nicky - nacky things that they learn at boarding - schools are rather of a superficial nature , I hae suffered a good deal myself from the want of ...
... head as the pouch , and turn to as good account too ; and granting that the bits o ' nicky - nacky things that they learn at boarding - schools are rather of a superficial nature , I hae suffered a good deal myself from the want of ...
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... head , your hands , your feet , and your heart . Your head will require a little redding up , baith outside and inside . It's no the bobs and curls , the ribbons and the rose- knots , the gildet kames , and the great toppings o ' well ...
... head , your hands , your feet , and your heart . Your head will require a little redding up , baith outside and inside . It's no the bobs and curls , the ribbons and the rose- knots , the gildet kames , and the great toppings o ' well ...
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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...