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... turning a deaf ear to the useless clamour of the versatile mob . To this his Lordship replied , that opinions must always differ on the subject ; anxious as he was for the welfare of her son , it was a point which he never discussed ...
... turning a deaf ear to the useless clamour of the versatile mob . To this his Lordship replied , that opinions must always differ on the subject ; anxious as he was for the welfare of her son , it was a point which he never discussed ...
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... turning to Miss Avondale , " my unfortunate opinions have given me no un- pleasant appearance in your eyes . " Certainly not , " was the only answer Miss Avondale gave . The carriage was at the door , and without a further farewell ...
... turning to Miss Avondale , " my unfortunate opinions have given me no un- pleasant appearance in your eyes . " Certainly not , " was the only answer Miss Avondale gave . The carriage was at the door , and without a further farewell ...
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... turn a saint or a sinner which way she pleases . " Why , " said Lord Delaware , " where did you pick up your information ? where have you met Lady Mary and the young lady ? " Oh , " said Sir George Burrell , " we were kittens together ...
... turn a saint or a sinner which way she pleases . " Why , " said Lord Delaware , " where did you pick up your information ? where have you met Lady Mary and the young lady ? " Oh , " said Sir George Burrell , " we were kittens together ...
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... turning his eyes to men for whom the voice of the country had been most clamourous . The approaching session was likely to be formidable ; the Winterton party had offered to the Earl of Exeter very advan- tageous terms , which he most ...
... turning his eyes to men for whom the voice of the country had been most clamourous . The approaching session was likely to be formidable ; the Winterton party had offered to the Earl of Exeter very advan- tageous terms , which he most ...
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... turn the conversation , lest she should in honour be obliged to confess she was the daughter of the man on whose praise he had been so enthusiastically eloquent . She asked him if Lord Delaware was also a favourite . He replied , " That ...
... turn the conversation , lest she should in honour be obliged to confess she was the daughter of the man on whose praise he had been so enthusiastically eloquent . She asked him if Lord Delaware was also a favourite . He replied , " That ...
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Page 268 - 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...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...