Elizabeth de Bruce, Volume 2Blackwood, 1827 |
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... strong - hearted humanity — she would have been in a fever in less than a week- now she will have a little interval of quiet , poor dear soul , to recruit . " " Your ladyship is continually overrating my humble merits . She took the ...
... strong - hearted humanity — she would have been in a fever in less than a week- now she will have a little interval of quiet , poor dear soul , to recruit . " " Your ladyship is continually overrating my humble merits . She took the ...
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... strong mind of Lady Tamtallan ; but why need I grieve and harass you about John Hurcheon , or his bills and bonds , hornings and poindings . " " Then you will write to Wolfe . ” " He has done too much already ; -dinna speak of him ...
... strong mind of Lady Tamtallan ; but why need I grieve and harass you about John Hurcheon , or his bills and bonds , hornings and poindings . " " Then you will write to Wolfe . ” " He has done too much already ; -dinna speak of him ...
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... strong interest to her who was now become his only stay . Gideon , who had hastily abandoned his fair pro- selytes on the summons of Frisel , kept watch dur- ing this night by the bedside of Monkshaugh , and while thus stationed , Effie ...
... strong interest to her who was now become his only stay . Gideon , who had hastily abandoned his fair pro- selytes on the summons of Frisel , kept watch dur- ing this night by the bedside of Monkshaugh , and while thus stationed , Effie ...
Page 96
... strong - best flourishes ; tears are the dews that nourish it . It is in moments like those in which Elizabeth and those whom she loved were placed , that woman's affection becomes conscious of all its dormant energies , and puts forth ...
... strong - best flourishes ; tears are the dews that nourish it . It is in moments like those in which Elizabeth and those whom she loved were placed , that woman's affection becomes conscious of all its dormant energies , and puts forth ...
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... strong mental agitation ! The mind of Elizabeth had already flashed through every region of mortal thought . " That man cannot be so absolute a fiend- cannot be capable of such unimaginable villany ! He is a father , " said she , more ...
... strong mental agitation ! The mind of Elizabeth had already flashed through every region of mortal thought . " That man cannot be so absolute a fiend- cannot be capable of such unimaginable villany ! He is a father , " said she , more ...
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Page 9 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Page 268 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 318 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny. Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 123 - And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
Page 80 - An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
Page 354 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page 52 - For still in form he placed his chief delight, Nor lightly broke his old accustomed rule, And much uncourteous would he hold the wight That e'er displaced a table, chair, or stool; And oft in meet array their ranks he placed, And oft with careful eye their ranks reviewed; For novel forms...
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Page 294 - My own friend — my own friend ! There's no one like my own friend ; For all the gold The world can hold, I would not give my own friend. II. So bold and frank his bearing, boy, Should you meet him onward faring, boy, In Lapland's snow Or Chili's glow, You'd say what news from Erin, boy ? III.