Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 121870 - 2 pages |
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Page 12
... seemed very close to each other in the dim light of the room . Adela's playing had been going on in a desultory kind of manner , broken every now and then by her conversation with John Saltram , and had evidently been intended to give ...
... seemed very close to each other in the dim light of the room . Adela's playing had been going on in a desultory kind of manner , broken every now and then by her conversation with John Saltram , and had evidently been intended to give ...
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... seemed as if John Saltram had favoured this gentleman's views by his prolonged absence from the scene , holding himself com- pletely aloof from Adela Branston at a time when , had he been inclined to press his suit , he might have ...
... seemed as if John Saltram had favoured this gentleman's views by his prolonged absence from the scene , holding himself com- pletely aloof from Adela Branston at a time when , had he been inclined to press his suit , he might have ...
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... seemed to take life in an easy agreeable manner , like a man whose habit it was to look on the brighter side of all things , provided his own comfort was secured . Norton Percival was the name on this gentleman's luggage , and on the ...
... seemed to take life in an easy agreeable manner , like a man whose habit it was to look on the brighter side of all things , provided his own comfort was secured . Norton Percival was the name on this gentleman's luggage , and on the ...
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... seemed to take their colour from his own mind . He had loved Marian Nowell as it is not given to many men to love ; and with the loss of her , it seemed to him as if the very springs of his life were broken . All the machinery of his ...
... seemed to take their colour from his own mind . He had loved Marian Nowell as it is not given to many men to love ; and with the loss of her , it seemed to him as if the very springs of his life were broken . All the machinery of his ...
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... seemed to him to be ringing all day long . It was a dull rainy day . He went to church in the morning , and in the afternoon stood at the coffee - room window watching the townspeople going by to their devotions in an absent unseeing ...
... seemed to him to be ringing all day long . It was a dull rainy day . He went to church in the morning , and in the afternoon stood at the coffee - room window watching the townspeople going by to their devotions in an absent unseeing ...
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Popular passages
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 201 - 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 201 - His forehead was broad and high, light as if built of ivory, with large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them like a sea with darkened lustre. "A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait-painters, Murillo and Velasquez.
Page 298 - 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 227 - 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 257 - 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 453 - There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet, in that old hall, Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that...
Page 228 - 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.
Page 449 - The turning of coats so common is grown, That no one would think to attack it ; But no case until now was so flagrantly known Of a schoolboy's turning his jacket.
Page 42 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...