Marriage ...Little, Brown, & Company, 1893 - 324 páginas |
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... character . Her reason for becom- ing an authoress is from her own pen , as follows , and is entitled a preface to The Inheritance : - - 1 Sir Walter's father , Walter Sandilands of Hilderston , a cadet of the Torphichen family ( his ...
... character . Her reason for becom- ing an authoress is from her own pen , as follows , and is entitled a preface to The Inheritance : - - 1 Sir Walter's father , Walter Sandilands of Hilderston , a cadet of the Torphichen family ( his ...
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... characters are individual portraits , that the author has little hope of being believed when she asserts the contrary . That some of them were sketched from life is not denied ; but the circumstances in which they are placed , their ...
... characters are individual portraits , that the author has little hope of being believed when she asserts the contrary . That some of them were sketched from life is not denied ; but the circumstances in which they are placed , their ...
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... characters are good and interest- ing , and they are tormented and persecuted and punished from no fault of their own , and for no possible purpose . Now I don't think , like all penny - book manufacturers , that ' tis absolutely ...
... characters are good and interest- ing , and they are tormented and persecuted and punished from no fault of their own , and for no possible purpose . Now I don't think , like all penny - book manufacturers , that ' tis absolutely ...
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... character and fate of the two sisters would be unexceptionable . I expect it will be the first book every wise matron will put into the hand of her daughter , and even the reviewers will relax of their severity in favour of the morality ...
... character and fate of the two sisters would be unexceptionable . I expect it will be the first book every wise matron will put into the hand of her daughter , and even the reviewers will relax of their severity in favour of the morality ...
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... character for her that might do as well and not be so dangerous . As to the misses , if ever it was to be published they must be altered or I must fly my native land . " 1 Campbell of Combie . Miss Clavering writes in answer : - ( 6 " 8 ...
... character for her that might do as well and not be so dangerous . As to the misses , if ever it was to be published they must be altered or I must fly my native land . " 1 Campbell of Combie . Miss Clavering writes in answer : - ( 6 " 8 ...
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Abbotsford Adelaide admiration affection Alicia amusement assure Aunt Grizzy beauty Beech Park better brother Castle certainly CHAPTER character charms Colonel Lennox cousin cried daughter dear dear Mary declare delight dinner Downe Wright dress Duchess duty elegant exclaimed eyes father fear feelings felt Gawffaw girls give Glenfern Grizzy's hand happiness hear heard heart Henry Highland honour hope husband idea Lady Audley Lady Emily Lady Juliana Lady Maclaughlan Ladyship Laird length Lochmarlie look Lord Courtland Lord Lindore manner marriage married Mary Mary's mind Miss Douglas Miss Ferrier Miss Grizzy Miss Jacky Miss Nicky mother nature never niece Philistine pleasure poor Pray Redgill replied returned Rose Hall Scotland seemed sensible Shagg sigh Sir Sampson Sir Walter Scott sister smile soon soul spirit sure taste tears tell there's thing thought tion tone turned wish woman wonder young
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Página 83 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I...
Página 143 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 221 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 51 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Página 258 - And he. saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival...
Página 263 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 259 - In age, in infancy, from others' aid Is all our hope; to teach us to be kind: That Nature's first, last lesson to mankind. The selfish heart deserves the pain it feels : More generous sorrow, while it sinks exalts, And conscious virtue mitigates the pang.
Página 107 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Página 309 - My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go ! Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of valour, the country of worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow ; Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods ; Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
Página 146 - ... full glory, either at the rising or setting of it, he would be so transported and amazed, and so admire the glory of it, that he would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object, to behold all the other various beauties this world could present to him.