The Court-partial, of 18--. A Tale of Military Life, Հատոր 1T.C. Newby, 1844 |
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... continued Catherine , avoid- ing a direct reply to her mother's remark , " do you not think he will ride over and pay his dévoirs some time in the course of the day . I hope he will , for I am sure it will not be plea- sant to meet him ...
... continued Catherine , avoid- ing a direct reply to her mother's remark , " do you not think he will ride over and pay his dévoirs some time in the course of the day . I hope he will , for I am sure it will not be plea- sant to meet him ...
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... continued Lady Carlton , " we had better go down stairs now . Sir Edward may think us indifferent . Just arrange that ringlet , my dear ; it is out of its place . You are looking charmingly - I am sure he will say so . " The two ladies ...
... continued Lady Carlton , " we had better go down stairs now . Sir Edward may think us indifferent . Just arrange that ringlet , my dear ; it is out of its place . You are looking charmingly - I am sure he will say so . " The two ladies ...
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... continued companionship . During his visit , new ties to the family had sprung up . Every individual had shown interest in his welfare , and excited feelings of regard in his heart - but there was one who had awakened the strongest ...
... continued companionship . During his visit , new ties to the family had sprung up . Every individual had shown interest in his welfare , and excited feelings of regard in his heart - but there was one who had awakened the strongest ...
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... continued , " I ran down to call you : I knew how well you could swim , and I am so very glad I remembered . " " And I am very grateful to God for it , and so glad , Adelaide , to find that my darling is really a soldier's daughter . If ...
... continued , " I ran down to call you : I knew how well you could swim , and I am so very glad I remembered . " " And I am very grateful to God for it , and so glad , Adelaide , to find that my darling is really a soldier's daughter . If ...
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... continued - thinking aloud , rather than address- ing his companion . " No Bible ! surely a soldier without his sword - a seaman without his compass - are things more in character , more consistent , than a Christian without his Bible ...
... continued - thinking aloud , rather than address- ing his companion . " No Bible ! surely a soldier without his sword - a seaman without his compass - are things more in character , more consistent , than a Christian without his Bible ...
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Էջ 302 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Էջ 76 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Էջ 162 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Էջ 153 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Էջ 76 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Էջ 182 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Էջ 111 - It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Էջ 248 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Էջ 138 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Էջ 27 - And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven: Then rushed the steed to battle driven; And louder than the bolts of Heaven Far flashed the red artillery.