As it is ...Munsell & Rowland, 1860 - 260 Seiten |
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... smiles will be a fortress that no enemy can scale , and thy Beatrice , though tempted by the fairest of the angels , will know 30 love but thine . CHAPTER VI . Sterling had discovered , as he supposed , that Er- nest had a talent for ...
... smiles will be a fortress that no enemy can scale , and thy Beatrice , though tempted by the fairest of the angels , will know 30 love but thine . CHAPTER VI . Sterling had discovered , as he supposed , that Er- nest had a talent for ...
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... smiles ; - but so sub- dued , so quiet , so calm was the utterance that he could make nothing of it . And yet , it gave life to the imp of his heart ; - HOPE . Behold , in her weariness , she leans her head upon her sister's shoulder ...
... smiles ; - but so sub- dued , so quiet , so calm was the utterance that he could make nothing of it . And yet , it gave life to the imp of his heart ; - HOPE . Behold , in her weariness , she leans her head upon her sister's shoulder ...
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... smiles and fortune waited upon her , she fell from the top of the stair to the bottom , and so mangled herself that she became a cripple for life . But she grew fat on her misfortune , and from a sylph , she had become a leviathan ...
... smiles and fortune waited upon her , she fell from the top of the stair to the bottom , and so mangled herself that she became a cripple for life . But she grew fat on her misfortune , and from a sylph , she had become a leviathan ...
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... smiles . The struggle was not long . Sterling was not in the humor for such a character as Ellen . He knew that her blushes came from dancing , her viva- city from wine . He could see devils in her eye , faithlessness on her brow , and ...
... smiles . The struggle was not long . Sterling was not in the humor for such a character as Ellen . He knew that her blushes came from dancing , her viva- city from wine . He could see devils in her eye , faithlessness on her brow , and ...
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... smiles of beauty , the gentleness of women and , in my " soul's good estimation , " as Pope says " prized above all price " as dear as all these things are ; yet , to me , fame , fame is the great winding sheet - anchor of my idolatry ...
... smiles of beauty , the gentleness of women and , in my " soul's good estimation , " as Pope says " prized above all price " as dear as all these things are ; yet , to me , fame , fame is the great winding sheet - anchor of my idolatry ...
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bank Beatrice beautiful bells are ringing Belvedere Belvedere's bets Blunderbuss bright eyes cards chamber CHAPTER charmed child cigar Clodhead cologne Colonel countenance curls Curtis Dash dealer dear delight devil doctor dollars a day door Ernest exclaimed eyes face favorite felt fingers friends Ganymede gentle graceful guitar hair hand head heart Helen hundred dollars Jump-up kissed knew laugh leaning leave lifted Lily Lily's ling lips long watching looked lost Maggie Miss Pembroke morning Mozart neck never night Paganini parlor paused Placid play Plunket pocket politicians prince Pustleponch remarked replied retired rosy Rozzin seat seemed Senator Burton sleep smiles speaker spirit Ster Sterling Sterling's sweet Tar River Thimblerigg thing thought thousand dollars tion tones touched tremulous Tristram Shandy turned Vereprompt violin voice walked Wiregrass young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 28 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Seite 180 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Seite 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Seite 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Seite 156 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Seite 22 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 21 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Seite 196 - ... it is that feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching, which must be the right describing note to know a poet by.
Seite 227 - Whosoever hath anything fixed in his person that doth induce contempt hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.
Seite 22 - If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music...