The Refugee in America: A Novel, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, 1832 |
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agreeable American amused answered asked Athenia beautiful Benjamin Franklin better calculate Captain Birdmore Carbury Caroline's carriage child Cornish cousin Darcy's daughter dear dear father delightful dollars Dorsetshire dreadful Edward Edward Smith Emily Williams English folks entered Euphrosyne expect eyes father fear feeling felt fire geant gentlemen girl guess hand heard heart Hicks hope hour inquiry Jerubbaal julap kind Lady Darcy laugh listen look Lord Byron Lord Darcy ma'am madam manner master mind Miss Duncomb Miss Fidkin Miss Gordon Miss Oglander morning mother never Nixon Oglander Oaks Ophelia papa party passed Perfect Bliss perfectly poor pray pretty replied Richard Dally Robert Rochester round seemed servants Silas Burns smile soon speak spirits squire sure thing thought told waiting walk Warner William West Wilmot window wish woman words young lady young lord
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Página 134 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Página 4 - Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires ; The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame. When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name; My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind, Some emanation of th
Página 196 - Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing, when loud Rumor speaks? I, from the Orient to the drooping West, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth : Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
Página 60 - ... whence issued most of the preparations for the meal ; and the fourth appeared to be the depository of all the arms of the family, for not less than half a dozen rifles were placed there. Having taken a sufficiently accurate survey of the still life, she began a closer examination of the living...
Página 229 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Página 60 - The father of the family was a tall stout man, about forty, and would would have been handsome, had not his mouth been rendered unseemly by the hue of tobacco, and his eyes sunk, as if out of health. His brother, younger in appearance, had a countenance much less agreeable ; his dress differed from that of the other members of the family, which was coarse, home-made, and almost picturesque in its rudeness ; his being of that cut and fabric which placed him decidedly among the shabby genteel of a...
Página 212 - ... procuring all the commodities with which Mr. Wimble recommended them to adorn the wilderness. On arriving at Perfect Bliss, the name Mr. Wimble had given to his settlement, it was signified to M. de Clairville that he was to hew down a tree, cut it into rails, and fix it as a zig-zag, or serpentine fence. The poor Frenchman, whose visions had been of scientific lectures, amateur concerts, private theatricals, and universal philanthropy, was startled; but he bore it well.
Página 150 - H3 perhaps as nearly approaching a description as any single word could do, would nevertheless have fallen short of it. She felt that it could not be the effect of that republican simplicity so often vaunted; there was a little stiffness, and a little consciousness of being somebody, about Mrs. Williams, quite incompatible with this. But the consciousness seemed an awkward consciousness; and the stiffness was not of that fine old-school fashion which has the grace of Vandyke, if not the ease of Raphael...
Página 62 - squire showed more inclination to converse than before he had refreshed himself, they continued to sit at table without scruple.'— vol.
Página 201 - I will confer an inestimable blessing on the Rochester community, by adopting little Emily Williams as my particular friend," she claims, "developing all her talents, and teaching her to speak English; and then, you know, when we depart, we shall leave them a glass by which to dress themselves."92 But she recognizes that Emily's society might not appreciate the change Caroline seeks to bring about. This makes her decide not just to appropriate Emily's education, but Emily herself.