Ernest MaltraversBaudry's European library, 1837 |
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... look into this work for that species of interest which is drawn from stirring adventures and a perpetual variety of incident . To a Novel of the present day are necessarily forbidden the animation , the excite- ment , the bustle , the ...
... look into this work for that species of interest which is drawn from stirring adventures and a perpetual variety of incident . To a Novel of the present day are necessarily forbidden the animation , the excite- ment , the bustle , the ...
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... look , her varying colour , her tender youth , and a singular grace of atti- tude and gesture , would have inspired an artist with the very ideal of rustic beauty . After a pause , she placed her lips to a chink in the door , and ...
... look , her varying colour , her tender youth , and a singular grace of atti- tude and gesture , would have inspired an artist with the very ideal of rustic beauty . After a pause , she placed her lips to a chink in the door , and ...
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... look grew more gay as he caught Alice's eye ; and as she lingered by the table , and faltered out some hesitat- ing words of apology , he seized her hand , and squeezing it ten- derly- " Prettiest of lasses , " said he ; 10 ERNEST ...
... look grew more gay as he caught Alice's eye ; and as she lingered by the table , and faltered out some hesitat- ing words of apology , he seized her hand , and squeezing it ten- derly- " Prettiest of lasses , " said he ; 10 ERNEST ...
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... look at the stranger with her usual vacant gaze , but with a half smile upon her rosy lips . Alice's father looked hard at the young people . " Eat , sir , " said he , with a sort of chuckle , " and no fine words ; poor Alice is honest ...
... look at the stranger with her usual vacant gaze , but with a half smile upon her rosy lips . Alice's father looked hard at the young people . " Eat , sir , " said he , with a sort of chuckle , " and no fine words ; poor Alice is honest ...
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... look as if you wanted them ; and see me again this evening when it is dark , and we can talk unob- served . " The girl took the money passively , and looked up in his face while he spoke ; the look was so unsuspecting , and the whole ...
... look as if you wanted them ; and see me again this evening when it is dark , and we can talk unob- served . " The girl took the money passively , and looked up in his face while he spoke ; the look was so unsuspecting , and the whole ...
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admiration affection Alice Alice's ambition arms asked banker beautiful Cæsarini Castruccio CHAPTER character charm child Cleveland cold conversation countenance Covedale Darvil dear delighted door dreams England Ernest Maltravers eyes face fancy father fear feel felt Florence Lascelles Frank Lascelles gaze genius gentleman girl grave hand happy heard heart heaven honour hope hour Italian Italy knew Lady Florence Lady Vargrave letter lips listened live looked Lord Doningdale Lord Saxingham Lord Vargrave Lumley Ferrers MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ Madame de St marriage married matter meerschaum mind Montaigne nature never night once passion pause perhaps peristyle poet poetry poor pride racter rence replied rich rience Sam Slick seemed silence smile soul spirit spoke strong sweet talent talk Templeton thing thought town turned uncle Valerie Ventadour voice walked wish woman words young youth
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Seite 102 - Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Seite 123 - I, alas! Have lived but on this earth a few sad years And so my lot was ordered, that a father First turned the moments of awakening life To drops, each poisoning youth's sweet hope...
Seite 280 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Seite 167 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 93 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Seite 113 - II cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind , that application is the price to be paid for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd to expect them without it, as to hope for a harvest where we have not sown the seed.
Seite 102 - Some Frenchman — possibly Montaigne — says : " People talk about thinking, but for my part I never think, except when I sit down to write." It is this never thinking, unless when we sit down to write, which is the cause of so much indifferent composition. But perhaps there is something more involved in the Frenchman's observation than meets the eye. It is certain that the mere act of inditing, tends, in a great degree, to the logicalization...
Seite 329 - She makes fierce spoil, and swells with wicked triumph To bury her lean knuckles in his eyes : Then doth she gnaw the pale and o'er-grown nails From his dry hand : but if she find some life Yet lurking close, she bites his gelid lips, And sticking her black tongue in his dry throat, She breathes dire murmurs, which enforce him bear Her baneful secrets to the spirits of horror.
Seite 50 - But if a little exercise you choose, Some zest for ease, 'tis not forbidden here : Amid the groves you may indulge the muse, Or tend the blooms and deck the vernal year...
Seite 135 - ... eye Some observation, some acuteness spy ; The friendly thought it keen, the treacherous deem'd it sly ; Yet not a crime could foe or friend detect, His actions all were, like his speech, correct...