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... woman so situated , especially when her means are suf- ficient to make her quite indepen- dent , far happier what may be called " alone in the world , " than if she had married , perhaps without much affection for her husband , but only ...
... woman so situated , especially when her means are suf- ficient to make her quite indepen- dent , far happier what may be called " alone in the world , " than if she had married , perhaps without much affection for her husband , but only ...
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... woman they meet , and as I do not want my little pet to have her head turned , I tell her not to believe all the things they will say to her . This young man appears to have behaved like a gentleman ; still you must not show any wish to ...
... woman they meet , and as I do not want my little pet to have her head turned , I tell her not to believe all the things they will say to her . This young man appears to have behaved like a gentleman ; still you must not show any wish to ...
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... woman who'd bother a fellow , or be in the way . A very nice - looking woman , I think . By Jove I've hit it ! I'll call to ask for the dog . " By the above speech it will be seen that Rachel's hero was not half so wise as he thought ...
... woman who'd bother a fellow , or be in the way . A very nice - looking woman , I think . By Jove I've hit it ! I'll call to ask for the dog . " By the above speech it will be seen that Rachel's hero was not half so wise as he thought ...
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... 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 . " Rachel had a vague idea that she might perhaps in some way take ...
... 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 . " Rachel had a vague idea that she might perhaps in some way take ...
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... woman , kissed Rachel at once , and told her that she was charmed to see her , and the girls shook hands with her , and wondered how it was that she was so pretty , and stylish looking when she had always lived in the country . With ...
... woman , kissed Rachel at once , and told her that she was charmed to see her , and the girls shook hands with her , and wondered how it was that she was so pretty , and stylish looking when she had always lived in the country . With ...
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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.