'Tis an old tale, and often told [by I. Goldsmid].I. Goldsmid, 1839 - 322 páginas |
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... Middleton , as one to whom she would most gladly entrust her daughter's future destiny . Mr. Middleton , was , when I first knew him , a solemn , and rather forlorn looking individual of fifty , or perhaps " inclining to three - score ...
... Middleton , as one to whom she would most gladly entrust her daughter's future destiny . Mr. Middleton , was , when I first knew him , a solemn , and rather forlorn looking individual of fifty , or perhaps " inclining to three - score ...
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... Middleton would have ranked as a man of first - rate abilities , for he was well primed with quotations , both in prose and verse ; and was in the habit of lavishly , and as I thought , unseasonably , decorating his discourse with them ...
... Middleton would have ranked as a man of first - rate abilities , for he was well primed with quotations , both in prose and verse ; and was in the habit of lavishly , and as I thought , unseasonably , decorating his discourse with them ...
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... Middleton he liberally bestowed on us all his leisure hours , devoting to our service every public as well as private holyday , dining with us whenever he was invited , volunteering his company in the evenings , and never failing to ...
... Middleton he liberally bestowed on us all his leisure hours , devoting to our service every public as well as private holyday , dining with us whenever he was invited , volunteering his company in the evenings , and never failing to ...
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... Middleton was impervious to , or rather unconscious of these pantomimic gestures . Even I , although quite certain of being haunted by compunctious visitings of conscience , after his departure , was yet so much ruffled by his presence ...
... Middleton was impervious to , or rather unconscious of these pantomimic gestures . Even I , although quite certain of being haunted by compunctious visitings of conscience , after his departure , was yet so much ruffled by his presence ...
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... Middleton . There was a delicacy and disinterestedness in his coming forward at such a period , which ought , and perhaps did , influence her in his favour ; but I don't quite know , — I sometimes fear she accepted him from the sole ...
... Middleton . There was a delicacy and disinterestedness in his coming forward at such a period , which ought , and perhaps did , influence her in his favour ; but I don't quite know , — I sometimes fear she accepted him from the sole ...
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Página 39 - Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
Página 310 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 21 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 41 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 89 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 1 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 126 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Página 310 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands...
Página 117 - Ah ! what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed ; render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
Página 69 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.