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Page 48
... turned , although they partook of the gaieties of " the season " in a very mild form , as became the daughters of a church dignitary , and they began rather to look down on W-- society , and showed unmistakably that they were inclined ...
... turned , although they partook of the gaieties of " the season " in a very mild form , as became the daughters of a church dignitary , and they began rather to look down on W-- society , and showed unmistakably that they were inclined ...
Page 55
... turned Miss Russel , warmly ; " any evening that you feel an old woman's company- " he smiled when she called herself an old woman , and Rachel said , " nonsense , Granny ! " - " will not bore you , you might come and play for me ...
... turned Miss Russel , warmly ; " any evening that you feel an old woman's company- " he smiled when she called herself an old woman , and Rachel said , " nonsense , Granny ! " - " will not bore you , you might come and play for me ...
Page 62
... turned to the croquet ground , leaving Harry very well inclined to knock him down . " Your young Hercules looks injured , " Reginald continued , with a scarcely perceptible pressure of the little grey gloved hand upon his arm , " but I ...
... turned to the croquet ground , leaving Harry very well inclined to knock him down . " Your young Hercules looks injured , " Reginald continued , with a scarcely perceptible pressure of the little grey gloved hand upon his arm , " but I ...
Page 66
... turned again to Rachel . " So you wouldn't play croquet with me yesterday , Miss Scott ? But indeed when I heard who your partner was , I felt very small at having asked you . We poor mud- crushers - did you know the in- fantry were ...
... turned again to Rachel . " So you wouldn't play croquet with me yesterday , Miss Scott ? But indeed when I heard who your partner was , I felt very small at having asked you . We poor mud- crushers - did you know the in- fantry were ...
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... turned away . " Of course , I know I can- not expect to prolong this , to me , too pleasant tête - à - tête the whole evening , but ” " I daresay you will be very glad to end it yourself , by - and - bye , " in- terrupted Rachel , in a ...
... turned away . " Of course , I know I can- not expect to prolong this , to me , too pleasant tête - à - tête the whole evening , but ” " I daresay you will be very glad to end it yourself , by - and - bye , " in- terrupted Rachel , in a ...
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Page 736 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 596 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Page 622 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion was all that he sought, and all that he gave.
Page 741 - No pity, no release, no respite ! Oh ! That thou wouldst make mine Enemy my judge, Even where he hangs, seared by my long revenge, On Caucasus ! He would not doom me thus. • Gentle and just and dreadless, is he not The Monarch of the World ? What then art thou ?— • No refuge ! no appeal ! — • Sink with me then ! We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin, Even as a vulture and a snake outspent Drop, twisted in inextricable fight, Into a shoreless sea.
Page 739 - Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element: the block That for uncounted ages has remained The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit. Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part, And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds...
Page 739 - Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
Page 527 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Page 579 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 215 - ... movemur enim nescio quo pacto locis ipsis, in quibus eorum quos diligimus aut admiramur adsunt vestigia.
Page 740 - Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance >° Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume ij An empire o'er the disentangled doom.