Perplexity, by Sydney Mostyn, Volumen3 |
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... beauty , and opulence , a bride on her way to be married is a being not quite qualified to think calmly and logically . She need not be nervous to be agitated . She may alight from her carriage with the same ease as she would enter a ...
... beauty , and opulence , a bride on her way to be married is a being not quite qualified to think calmly and logically . She need not be nervous to be agitated . She may alight from her carriage with the same ease as she would enter a ...
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... beauty and fortune two unspeakably better recommendations than love ? ' Assuredly it will not . ' 6 ' I am to believe , ' she went on with haughty coldness , that you have spoken your settled decision to - night ? that neither my wishes ...
... beauty and fortune two unspeakably better recommendations than love ? ' Assuredly it will not . ' 6 ' I am to believe , ' she went on with haughty coldness , that you have spoken your settled decision to - night ? that neither my wishes ...
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... beauty he sees . ' , ' You have made a mistake , ' she said . The helpmate you needed with your views was a servant . You have missed satisfying the neces- sity of your nature by one step . ' ' I don't object to the bad taste of these ...
... beauty he sees . ' , ' You have made a mistake , ' she said . The helpmate you needed with your views was a servant . You have missed satisfying the neces- sity of your nature by one step . ' ' I don't object to the bad taste of these ...
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... that , were I beautiful as Hebe , submissive as Ariel , upon her my beauty could make no impression , from her my submissiveness could exact no recognition . Her world circled herself and her possessions . PERPLEXITY . 43.
... that , were I beautiful as Hebe , submissive as Ariel , upon her my beauty could make no impression , from her my submissiveness could exact no recognition . Her world circled herself and her possessions . PERPLEXITY . 43.
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... pay- sannes for princesses . ' ' That is to say , they do not permit prejudice to cripple their senses . They may make mis- takes , but their mistakes are all noble . They carry in their hearts so much beauty and good- ness PERPLEXITY . 59.
... pay- sannes for princesses . ' ' That is to say , they do not permit prejudice to cripple their senses . They may make mis- takes , but their mistakes are all noble . They carry in their hearts so much beauty and good- ness PERPLEXITY . 59.
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Página 8 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
Página 19 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 90 - Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed. One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house, and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
Página 85 - As fills a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at last Must needs express his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other, To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty 670 At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.