Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 140William Blackwood, 1886 - England |
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... Corona reached home she went to her own small boudoir , with the intention of remaining there for an hour if she could do so without being disturbed . There was a prospect of this ; for on in- quiry she ascertained that her husband was ...
... Corona reached home she went to her own small boudoir , with the intention of remaining there for an hour if she could do so without being disturbed . There was a prospect of this ; for on in- quiry she ascertained that her husband was ...
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... Corona , as though she had heard the man himself speaking to her . " I write , dear Duchessa , because I covet your good opinion , and my motive is therefore before all things an interested one . I would not have you think that I had ...
... Corona , as though she had heard the man himself speaking to her . " I write , dear Duchessa , because I covet your good opinion , and my motive is therefore before all things an interested one . I would not have you think that I had ...
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... Corona d'Astrardente , -why ? Ah , Giovanni , how different things might have been ! Corona rose angrily from her seat and leaned against the broad chimney - piece , and looked at the clock - it was nearly mid - day . He might marry ...
... Corona d'Astrardente , -why ? Ah , Giovanni , how different things might have been ! Corona rose angrily from her seat and leaned against the broad chimney - piece , and looked at the clock - it was nearly mid - day . He might marry ...
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... Corona had been in her ordi- nary mood , she would very likely have laughed at the anonymous communication . She had formerly received more than one passionate declaration , not signed indeed , but accompanied always by some clue to the ...
... Corona had been in her ordi- nary mood , she would very likely have laughed at the anonymous communication . She had formerly received more than one passionate declaration , not signed indeed , but accompanied always by some clue to the ...
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... Corona showed in her dress , but it would be hard to conceive of any woman who pos- sessed by virtue of severe beauty a more indubitable right to dis- pense with ornament . crowded . The theatre was There was a performance of " Nor- ma ...
... Corona showed in her dress , but it would be hard to conceive of any woman who pos- sessed by virtue of severe beauty a more indubitable right to dis- pense with ornament . crowded . The theatre was There was a performance of " Nor- ma ...
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Page 699 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 612 - Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever ? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier ? Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! n.
Page 659 - But let us speak no more of this! I find My father; let me feel that I have found! Come, sit beside me on this sand, and take My head betwixt thy hands, and kiss my cheeks, And wash them with thy tears, and say: My son!
Page 671 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
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Page 587 - ... are partial in the rest : Foes to all living worth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old ; 35 It is the rust we value, not the gold.
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