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I have very little doubt that real happiness is most likely to be found in a wise
avoidance of all the perils and perplexities of that foolish passion which we read
of in novels , if one could only be wise ; don ' t you think so , Mr . Fenton ? ' My
own ...
I have very little doubt that real happiness is most likely to be found in a wise
avoidance of all the perils and perplexities of that foolish passion which we read
of in novels , if one could only be wise ; don ' t you think so , Mr . Fenton ? ' My
own ...
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He had little doubt after this that the strangers at the Grange had been Marian
and her husband . Treachery , blackest treachery , somewhere . He had
questioned Sir David , and had received his positive assurance that this man
Holbrook was ...
He had little doubt after this that the strangers at the Grange had been Marian
and her husband . Treachery , blackest treachery , somewhere . He had
questioned Sir David , and had received his positive assurance that this man
Holbrook was ...
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We have no doubt that they are forwarded with the kindest intentions ; but as it is
wholly out of our power to make use of any such hints , and as we really have no
time to peruse anonymous letters , we hope the writers will henceforth spare ...
We have no doubt that they are forwarded with the kindest intentions ; but as it is
wholly out of our power to make use of any such hints , and as we really have no
time to peruse anonymous letters , we hope the writers will henceforth spare ...
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This evil — for no doubt it is an evil — is happily growing less every day . The
number of interesting works that are now written , the able papers that continually
appear in our periodical publications , the facilities for reading offered to the
lowest ...
This evil — for no doubt it is an evil — is happily growing less every day . The
number of interesting works that are now written , the able papers that continually
appear in our periodical publications , the facilities for reading offered to the
lowest ...
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... deafened by every conceivable noise ; no more able to see the Tower or St .
Paul ' s through the yellow fog that hangs upon the river , than to see the dome of
St . Peter ' s at Rome , and without the remotest shadow of a doubt as to our
being ...
... deafened by every conceivable noise ; no more able to see the Tower or St .
Paul ' s through the yellow fog that hangs upon the river , than to see the dome of
St . Peter ' s at Rome , and without the remotest shadow of a doubt as to our
being ...
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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 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 199 - 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 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 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 451 - 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 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.
Page 447 - 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 40 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...