FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... looked with contempt upon the modern distinctions and the mushroom noblesse which have sprung up to discountenance and eclipse the plainness of more venerable and solid respect- ability . In his youth my father had served in the army ...
... looked with contempt upon the modern distinctions and the mushroom noblesse which have sprung up to discountenance and eclipse the plainness of more venerable and solid respect- ability . In his youth my father had served in the army ...
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... looked to my support in whatever political side they had espoused . I saw in the notes of the mothers their anx- iety for the establishment of their daughters , and their respect for my acres ; and in the cordiality of the sons who had ...
... looked to my support in whatever political side they had espoused . I saw in the notes of the mothers their anx- iety for the establishment of their daughters , and their respect for my acres ; and in the cordiality of the sons who had ...
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... looked rather at the mass than the leaven of mankind ; and while I felt aversion for the few whom I knew , I glowed with philanthropy for the crowd which I knew not . It is in contemplating men at a distance that we be- come benevolent ...
... looked rather at the mass than the leaven of mankind ; and while I felt aversion for the few whom I knew , I glowed with philanthropy for the crowd which I knew not . It is in contemplating men at a distance that we be- come benevolent ...
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... sciousness and vanity of power . In the levity of the lip I disguised the workings and the knowledge of the brain ; and I looked , as with a gifted eye , upon the mysteries of the hidden depths , while I seemed to float 16 FALKLAND .
... sciousness and vanity of power . In the levity of the lip I disguised the workings and the knowledge of the brain ; and I looked , as with a gifted eye , upon the mysteries of the hidden depths , while I seemed to float 16 FALKLAND .
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... looked on him ; and my lips quivered , and my eyes were full of tears . He came to me - he sat next to me - he whispered his interest , his anxiety - and was this all ? Have I loved before I ever knew that I was beloved ? No , no : the ...
... looked on him ; and my lips quivered , and my eyes were full of tears . He came to me - he sat next to me - he whispered his interest , his anxiety - and was this all ? Have I loved before I ever knew that I was beloved ? No , no : the ...
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Էջ 79 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Էջ 22 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Էջ 55 - ... engrosses all the sources of thought, and excludes every object but itself; but in the latter, it is shared with all the former reflections and feelings which the past yet bequeaths us, and can neither (however powerful be its nature) constitute the whole of our happiness or woe. The love of man in his maturer years is not indeed so much a new emotion, as a revival and concentration of all his departed affections to others; and the deep and intense nature of Falkland's passion for Emily was...
Էջ 29 - Our senses may captivate us with beauty ; but in absence we forget, or by reason we can conquer so superficial an impression. Our vanity may enamour us with rank ; but the affections of vanity are traced in sand : but who can love Genius, and not feel that the sentiments it excites partake of its own intenseness and its own immortality ? It arouses, concentrates, engrosses all our emotions, even to the most subtle and concealed.
Էջ 99 - PELHAM; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN. A Novel. In 2 vols. 12mo. THE DISOWNED. A Novel. In 2 vols. 12mo. By the Author of "Pelham,"&c. [Stereotyped.) DEVEREUX. A Novel. In 2 vols. I2mo. By the Author of " Pelham,