The InheritanceRichard Bentley, 1841 - 451 Seiten |
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... attempt fails , the revulsion generally produces a character of a totally different stamp . Mrs. St. Clair had spared no pains to render her daughter as great an adept in dissimulation as she was herself ; but all her endeavours had ...
... attempt fails , the revulsion generally produces a character of a totally different stamp . Mrs. St. Clair had spared no pains to render her daughter as great an adept in dissimulation as she was herself ; but all her endeavours had ...
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... attempt to enlarge his soul , or open his understanding , would have been in vain . His mind was already full , as full as it could hold , of little thoughts , little plans , little notions , little prejudices , little whims , and ...
... attempt to enlarge his soul , or open his understanding , would have been in vain . His mind was already full , as full as it could hold , of little thoughts , little plans , little notions , little prejudices , little whims , and ...
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... attempt to bring up words long and strong enough to immolate the presumption of Miss Pratt and Anthony Whyte . " I can assure you , both Lord Punmedown and Sir Thomas Turnabout spoke seriously to Mr. Whyte about it some time ago ...
... attempt to bring up words long and strong enough to immolate the presumption of Miss Pratt and Anthony Whyte . " I can assure you , both Lord Punmedown and Sir Thomas Turnabout spoke seriously to Mr. Whyte about it some time ago ...
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... attempt it . -I am not one of those nimble artists who can take striking likenesses in five minutes . " " So much the better ; for they are always hideous perfor- mances ; but how long will you take to make a good full- length portrait ...
... attempt it . -I am not one of those nimble artists who can take striking likenesses in five minutes . " " So much the better ; for they are always hideous perfor- mances ; but how long will you take to make a good full- length portrait ...
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... attempt to vindicate himself from so foul an insinuation ; but , with his shoulder turned to the offended fair , lounged over the " Morning Post , " as if quite un- conscious of her presence . But , although he despised her too much to ...
... attempt to vindicate himself from so foul an insinuation ; but , with his shoulder turned to the offended fair , lounged over the " Morning Post , " as if quite un- conscious of her presence . But , although he despised her too much to ...
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affections agitation Andrew Waddell Anne Black answered Anthony Whyte asked assure beauty Bell Black better called canna carriage certainly CHAPTER Clair Colonel Delmour colour Countess cousin cried Gertrude daughter dear dinna dinner door dress Earl emotion exclaimed eyes fear feelings flattered frae Gertrude's give hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope John Tod Lady Betty Lady Rossville Lady Rossville's leave length Lewiston look Lord Rossville Lord Rossville's lordship lover Lyndsay Lyndsay's Major Waddell mamma manner Masham maun Millbank mind Miss Bell Miss Black Miss Lilly Miss Pratt Miss St morning mother nature never party passed passion person pleasure present promise racter Ramsay replied scarcely seated seemed servant sigh silent smile soul speak sure tears tell there's thing thought tone trude truth turned uncle Adam uttered voice vulgar wish words
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Seite 59 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Seite 190 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 49 - Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite.
Seite 189 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Seite 362 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even...
Seite 314 - She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night, and fears no manner of ill, because she means none : yet to say truth, she is never alone, for she is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations.
Seite 238 - Strikes thro' their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.
Seite 202 - I will not leave you long ; For in your shades I deem some spirit dwells, Who from the chiding stream, or groaning oak, Still hears and answers to Matilda's moan.
Seite 62 - DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers.
Seite 39 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.