Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 12Chatto and Windus, 1870 |
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... wife should love her husband , with all her heart and soul - it was ten thousand times better that the knot should be cut in time , however roughly . Think what your misery would have been if you had discovered after your marriage that ...
... wife should love her husband , with all her heart and soul - it was ten thousand times better that the knot should be cut in time , however roughly . Think what your misery would have been if you had discovered after your marriage that ...
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... absence from the stage . The Pallinsons had not been on visiting terms with Adela during the life of the East - India merchant , who had not shown himself favourably disposed to his wife's relations ; and by this means FENTON'S QUEST 13.
... absence from the stage . The Pallinsons had not been on visiting terms with Adela during the life of the East - India merchant , who had not shown himself favourably disposed to his wife's relations ; and by this means FENTON'S QUEST 13.
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A London Magazine. disposed to his wife's relations ; and by this means Mr. Saltram had enjoyed advantages which Theobald Pallinson told himself could not have been his , had he , Theobald , been at hand to engage his cousin's attention ...
A London Magazine. disposed to his wife's relations ; and by this means Mr. Saltram had enjoyed advantages which Theobald Pallinson told himself could not have been his , had he , Theobald , been at hand to engage his cousin's attention ...
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... wife . Gilbert , I wish to heaven you would fall in love with her ! ' Gilbert Fenton stared aghast at his companion , as he tossed the end of his cigar into the gutter . ' Why , John , you must be mad to say such a thing . ' ' No , it ...
... wife . Gilbert , I wish to heaven you would fall in love with her ! ' Gilbert Fenton stared aghast at his companion , as he tossed the end of his cigar into the gutter . ' Why , John , you must be mad to say such a thing . ' ' No , it ...
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... wife . This interval , in which he remained inactive , devoting himself to the duties of his commer- cial life , was only a pause in his labours . He was not the less bent upon bringing about a face - to - face meeting between himself ...
... wife . This interval , in which he remained inactive , devoting himself to the duties of his commer- cial life , was only a pause in his labours . He was not the less bent upon bringing about a face - to - face meeting between himself ...
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Page 68 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 260 - And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 260 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. SOMERSET. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Page 238 - And he said, I am. Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee : neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place : for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou earnest.
Page 423 - You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth autumn, my partner was a bewitching creature, a year younger than myself. My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language, but you know the Scotch idiom: she was a "bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass".
Page 296 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 199 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 225 - In a calm retirement the gay vanity of youth no longer fluttered in her bosom ; she listened to the voice of truth and passion, and I might presume to hope that I had made some impression on a virtuous heart.
Page 255 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 226 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.