'Tis an old tale, and often told [by I. Goldsmid].I. Goldsmid, 1839 - 322 páginas |
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... took out his silk pocket handkerchief , and sedu- lously wiped from the worn out cushion sundry particles of dust that told a tale of neglected house - wifery . He then seated himself , and after balancing the chair to and fro for a few ...
... took out his silk pocket handkerchief , and sedu- lously wiped from the worn out cushion sundry particles of dust that told a tale of neglected house - wifery . He then seated himself , and after balancing the chair to and fro for a few ...
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... but no sooner had he swallowed his tea than he took them up . " I think , cousin Dorothy , these charges are nefarious ; the nurse is a perfect harpy , and as for the apothecary , I'll have his bill taxed . Neither AND OFTEN TOLD . 15.
... but no sooner had he swallowed his tea than he took them up . " I think , cousin Dorothy , these charges are nefarious ; the nurse is a perfect harpy , and as for the apothecary , I'll have his bill taxed . Neither AND OFTEN TOLD . 15.
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... took me under their especial protection . It certainly was a great relief to me . In addition to this I had a secret feeling that at least I was not eating the bread of idleness - and this conviction greatly consoled me . In the first ...
... took me under their especial protection . It certainly was a great relief to me . In addition to this I had a secret feeling that at least I was not eating the bread of idleness - and this conviction greatly consoled me . In the first ...
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... took his departure for the Continent . Lady Sarah Herbert sent her invitation in due form ; but the distance was great . Mrs. Sidney did not like to leave her young family ; and she also wished to be on the spot to superintend her ...
... took his departure for the Continent . Lady Sarah Herbert sent her invitation in due form ; but the distance was great . Mrs. Sidney did not like to leave her young family ; and she also wished to be on the spot to superintend her ...
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... took place ; eye glasses were dropped , and eyes opened . The gentlemen murmured approbation ; the ladies were seized with a little fidgetty , nervous cough ; Viola approached Lady Sarah and curtsied to her gracefully , but with a ...
... took place ; eye glasses were dropped , and eyes opened . The gentlemen murmured approbation ; the ladies were seized with a little fidgetty , nervous cough ; Viola approached Lady Sarah and curtsied to her gracefully , but with a ...
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acquaintance agony Allonby answer apartment appeared arms asked beautiful canker-worm carriage CHAPTER cheek counting-house daugh daughter Dear cousin Dorothy dear Viola Dick Sidney door dread dress exclaimed eyes father fear feelings felt Frank Herbert gaze girl give hair hand happy head hear heard heart Helen Helen Page honour hope hour husband knew Lady Glenalbert Lady Sarah Herbert laughed leave letter light lips live look Lord Glenalbert Lucy Lucy's Lyndham mamma manner Marables Margaret married ment Middleton mind mingled Miss Brookes Miss Page Miss Sharpe Miss Sidney morning mother never night observed once pale passed pause perhaps person poor quadrille racter rejoined replied rose scarcely seemed Sidney's sighed sister smile sorrow speak spirit spoke sure tears tell thing thou thought threw tion to-morrow tone Turretcliff Viola Sidney voice weep whilst wife woman word young ladies youth
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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.