Trevelyan, Band 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834 |
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acquaintance agita agitation amusement appeared arrived ball better brother carriage chaise cheeks cheerfulness Colonel Trevelyan companion consequence continued Cornwall countenance course cousin dance daugh dead silence door endeavoured exclaimed eyes fancy father fear feelings felt fixed Frederick garden girl guardian hand happy hastily heard heart her's honour hope Hopkins Hopkins's hurried kind Lady Augusta Lady Williams laughing leave length look Lord Herbert Leslie Lord Launceston manner melancholy mind minute Miss Birch Miss Howard Miss Trevelyan morning neighbours ness never Newfoundland dog object once painful party passed Penrhyn pleasure poor racter replied Trevelyan Richmond scarcely seemed silence Sir Henry sister smiling soon sound sounds of music sure tears Theresa thing thought tion took Trevel Trevelyan Castle Twickenham uncle uncon velyan voice ward Williams's wish words young
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Seite 128 - twill impart Some pangs to view his happier lot: But let them pass— Oh! how my heart Would hate him, if he loved thee not! When late I saw thy favourite child I thought my jealous heart would break; But when the unconscious infant smiled, I kiss'd it for its mother's sake.
Seite 30 - On his bold visage, middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth, And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire...
Seite 14 - Endearing, gen'rous, bountiful and kind ; Vain, fanciful, and fond of worthless praise ; Courteous and gentle, proud and magnificent : And yet these adverse qualities in thee, No dissonance, nor striking contrast make ; For still thy good and amiable gifts The sober dignity of virtue wear not, And such a 'witching mien thy follies show, They make a very idiot of reproof, And smile it to disgrace.
Seite 186 - Twas his, who, mourned by many, sleeps below. The sunny temper, bright where all is strife, — The simple heart that mocks at worldly wiles; Light wit, that plays along the calm of life ; And stirs its languid surface into smiles...
Seite 186 - The happy grateful spirit that improves, And brightens every gift by fortune given, That wander where it will with those it loves, Makes every place a home, and home a heaven. All these were his. — Oh ! thou who read'st this stone, When for thyself, thy children, to the sky Thou humbly prayest, ask this boon alone, — That ye, like him may live, like him may die.
Seite 28 - Why, to be sure, a tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady of her stamp as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.
Seite 162 - Pis more than Nature's — like the burning might Delirium gathers from the fevered height. BYRON. NEARLY two years had elapsed since that eventful day on which the nuptials of Lord and Lady Herbert Leslie were celebrated, when, one afternoon, in May 1802, as Mrs. Hopkins was returning home from her usual walk, she saw a hack chaise drive up to her next door neighbour, Miss Trevelyan's.
Seite 6 - ... pleased Heaven to afflict her, and that her feelings must be shared by all who, from having none of those endearing ties which prolong the vista of existence, see a dead-wall gradually rise at the end of their own. And to such childless, insulated beings, at the period when recollections instead of anticipations form the character of life, this world must naturally wear a totally different aspect from that which it presents to their more busily -connected neighbours ; for there is an awkward...