Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 12Chatto and Windus, 1870 |
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... wish it . ' ' I do really wish it . I shall drop Mrs. Branston a line to say you will come . She asked me to bring you whenever I had an op- portunity . The dinner - hour is seven . I'll call for you here a few minutes before . I don't ...
... wish it . ' ' I do really wish it . I shall drop Mrs. Branston a line to say you will come . She asked me to bring you whenever I had an op- portunity . The dinner - hour is seven . I'll call for you here a few minutes before . I don't ...
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... wish things had happened otherwise . What is it Lady Macbeth says ? " Naught's had , all's spent , when our desire is got without content . " I wonder whether the fulfilment of one's heart's desire ever does bring perfect contentment ...
... wish things had happened otherwise . What is it Lady Macbeth says ? " Naught's had , all's spent , when our desire is got without content . " I wonder whether the fulfilment of one's heart's desire ever does bring perfect contentment ...
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... wish for . ' ' Indeed ! ' thought Gilbert . Then I begin to perceive the reason of Mrs. Pallinson's anxiety about John Saltram . She wants to secure Mrs. Branston's handsome fortune for this son of hers . Not much chance of that , I ...
... wish for . ' ' Indeed ! ' thought Gilbert . Then I begin to perceive the reason of Mrs. Pallinson's anxiety about John Saltram . She wants to secure Mrs. Branston's handsome fortune for this son of hers . Not much chance of that , I ...
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... 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 is by no means a mad ...
... 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 is by no means a mad ...
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... wish to look at anything in antique silver , sir ? ' he asked briskly . ' We have some very handsome specimens of the Queen Anne period . ' ' No , I don't want to look at anything . I want to know whether Jacob Nowell is still living ...
... wish to look at anything in antique silver , sir ? ' he asked briskly . ' We have some very handsome specimens of the Queen Anne period . ' ' No , I don't want to look at anything . I want to know whether Jacob Nowell is still living ...
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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.