Thornwell Abbas, by Grant Lloyd, Volume 1S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876 |
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... skirling opera songs . For an old bachelor cousin of Sir John's , and Miss Maria , his niece , a young boarding - school lady , just about to be introduced , were also of the group round the pianoforte 20 THORNWELL ABBAS .
... skirling opera songs . For an old bachelor cousin of Sir John's , and Miss Maria , his niece , a young boarding - school lady , just about to be introduced , were also of the group round the pianoforte 20 THORNWELL ABBAS .
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... Maria ; " Comin ' through the Rye . " " Mrs. Sowerby accordingly sang it with a good deal of espiéglerie , and yet not at all overstepping the bounds of good taste . When she had done she turned round , and a glance at Lady Grizel's ...
... Maria ; " Comin ' through the Rye . " " Mrs. Sowerby accordingly sang it with a good deal of espiéglerie , and yet not at all overstepping the bounds of good taste . When she had done she turned round , and a glance at Lady Grizel's ...
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... Maria , who had been called from the piano to hold a skein of wool ; and to this day Maria does not know how much Lady Grizel saw of the convulsions with which she was seized . Amoret meanwhile had begun hammer- ing out the ...
... Maria , who had been called from the piano to hold a skein of wool ; and to this day Maria does not know how much Lady Grizel saw of the convulsions with which she was seized . Amoret meanwhile had begun hammer- ing out the ...
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... Maria . " Don't you , Lady Grizel ? " " H'm ! I suppose that's what it's meant to be . Maria , how can I wind the wool if ye will not hold your hands still ? " Meantime Amoret had dropped into a little air of Schubert's or Kücken's - a ...
... Maria . " Don't you , Lady Grizel ? " " H'm ! I suppose that's what it's meant to be . Maria , how can I wind the wool if ye will not hold your hands still ? " Meantime Amoret had dropped into a little air of Schubert's or Kücken's - a ...
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... Maria and Mr. Sowerby on the other . Sir John and Cousin Jacob on the box . This was rather hard on Lady Grizel , who was not great at small talk at any time , and had absolutely nothing in common with Mrs. Sowerby . Conversation in the ...
... Maria and Mr. Sowerby on the other . Sir John and Cousin Jacob on the box . This was rather hard on Lady Grizel , who was not great at small talk at any time , and had absolutely nothing in common with Mrs. Sowerby . Conversation in the ...
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Page 13 - She sketched ; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading : She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalani jealous : She touched the organ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows.
Page 190 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 203 - O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen.
Page 113 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 23 - The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day; But glory remains when their lights fade away! Begin, ye tormentors! your threats are in vain, For the son of Alknomook shall never complain.
Page 13 - Well fill'd with all an album's glories; Paintings of butterflies, and Rome, Patterns for trimmings, Persian stories; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo, Fierce odes to Famine and to Slaughter, And autographs of Prince Leboo, And recipes for elder-water.
Page 29 - Yet is it a talent of trust, a loan to be rendered back with interest; A delight, but redolent of care ; honey-sweet, but lacking not the bitter.
Page 97 - ... unwithered cheek, Thy temples fringed with locks of gleaming white, And head that droops because the soul is meek, Thee with the welcome Snowdrop I compare ; That child of winter, prompting thoughts that climb From desolation toward the genial prime ; Or with the Moon conquering earth's misty air, And filling more and more with crystal light As pensive Evening deepens into night.
Page 147 - Your charms would make me true. To you no soul shall bear deceit, No stranger offer wrong; But friends in all the aged you'll meet, And lovers in the young. But when they learn that you have blest Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest...
Page 205 - She loves her fire, her cottage-home : yet o'er the moorland will she roam in weather rough and bleak; and, when against the wind she strains, O might I kiss the mountain rains that sparkle on her cheek ! Take all that's mine beneath the moon...