Agnes Serle, by the author of 'The heiress'.R. Bentley, 1835 |
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... whilst it had underrated her powers of fascination . She seemed to the gazer the model of feminine perfection . Whatever might have been his former predilec- tions for any particular style of beauty , let but the eye rest on her , the ...
... whilst it had underrated her powers of fascination . She seemed to the gazer the model of feminine perfection . Whatever might have been his former predilec- tions for any particular style of beauty , let but the eye rest on her , the ...
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... whilst the latter read and re - read a paper from Nimrod in the Sportsman's Magazine , till a deep breathing pro- claimed an oblivion from all the horrors of weariness . Mr. Sandford looked over the chronology in the almanack with a ...
... whilst the latter read and re - read a paper from Nimrod in the Sportsman's Magazine , till a deep breathing pro- claimed an oblivion from all the horrors of weariness . Mr. Sandford looked over the chronology in the almanack with a ...
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... whilst his stately figure and speaking features gave greater force to the sternness of his tone . Lady Susan was silent ; she did not quite know what to say ; and , after a brief pause , he * proceeded . " Shall I tell you what those ...
... whilst his stately figure and speaking features gave greater force to the sternness of his tone . Lady Susan was silent ; she did not quite know what to say ; and , after a brief pause , he * proceeded . " Shall I tell you what those ...
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... whilst I was still a boy , but his noble and intellectual look , his pale cheek and stately form , the calm , loving , yet searching gaze of his dark eye , the occasional lighting up of that pale cheek when higher thoughts came ...
... whilst I was still a boy , but his noble and intellectual look , his pale cheek and stately form , the calm , loving , yet searching gaze of his dark eye , the occasional lighting up of that pale cheek when higher thoughts came ...
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... whilst on a water party accounted for and justified the intimacy . Weeks passed in a delirium of pleasure . I fancied Maria Woodley all that woman should be ; I ima- gined her adorned with every charm and virtue , a holy shrine before ...
... whilst on a water party accounted for and justified the intimacy . Weeks passed in a delirium of pleasure . I fancied Maria Woodley all that woman should be ; I ima- gined her adorned with every charm and virtue , a holy shrine before ...
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Page 185 - O ! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Page 44 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 87 - I see the peril — yet do not recede ; And my brain reels — and yet my foot is firm : There is a power upon me which withholds And makes it my fatality to live ; If it be life to wear within myself This barrenness of spirit, and to be My own soul's sepulchre, for I have ceased To justify my deeds unto myself — The last infirmity of evil.
Page 164 - To comprehend the universe : nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not ; And tenderness — but that I had for her ; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own — I loved her, and destroy'd her ! Witch.
Page 164 - She was like me in lineaments — her eyes, Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not; And...
Page 43 - With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth...
Page 354 - Spirit of Love! soon thy rose-plumes wear The weight and the sully of canker and care: Falsehood is round thee ; Hope leads thee on, Till every hue from thy pinion is gone. But one bright moment is all thine own, The one ere thy visible presence is known; When, like the wind of the south, thy power, Sunning the heavens, sweetening the flower, Is felt, but not seen.
Page 354 - Fear has not darkened thee ; Hope has not made The blossoms expand, it but opens to fade. Nothing is known of those wearing fears Which will shadow the light of thy after years.
Page 94 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 241 - Oh dismal dole, when the secret soul Is mock'd by the outward showing ; When we dress the eyes in a gay disguise, While the tears are inward flowing ; When groans and grief would be a relief, But with carols we keep them under, And a laugh we start when the throbbing heart Is ready to burst asunder...