Thornwell Abbas, by Grant Lloyd, Volume 1S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876 |
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... Woburn Place became a bright little oasis in the desert . Mr. Sowerby , from being one of the most unpopular men in London , found himself quite in request . Every one wanted to be asked to Mrs. Sowerby's parties . There you met the ...
... Woburn Place became a bright little oasis in the desert . Mr. Sowerby , from being one of the most unpopular men in London , found himself quite in request . Every one wanted to be asked to Mrs. Sowerby's parties . There you met the ...
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... Woburn Place , Mr. Sowerby's . The duke's place is small , ma'am , very small , and her Grace wrote to say that much as she wished ( them was her very words ) to see the dear child , she must postpone it till the family come up to town ...
... Woburn Place , Mr. Sowerby's . The duke's place is small , ma'am , very small , and her Grace wrote to say that much as she wished ( them was her very words ) to see the dear child , she must postpone it till the family come up to town ...
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... Woburn Place , we shall look back to Thornwell and its pleasures ! However , you're all coming to us this winter ; so I shall be cutting the ground from under my own feet if I abuse London to you . " " And you really will take me to the ...
... Woburn Place , we shall look back to Thornwell and its pleasures ! However , you're all coming to us this winter ; so I shall be cutting the ground from under my own feet if I abuse London to you . " " And you really will take me to the ...
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... Woburn Place to a more fashionable region . Not that you would ever have suspected Charlie Sowerby of fashion , if you had seen him . He was fair , with sandy hair , grey eyes , and a somewhat colourless complexion , which he aggravated ...
... Woburn Place to a more fashionable region . Not that you would ever have suspected Charlie Sowerby of fashion , if you had seen him . He was fair , with sandy hair , grey eyes , and a somewhat colourless complexion , which he aggravated ...
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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...