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... tone- " I must go now ; I promised mother I would be back to dinner . Good - bye , Mr. Goring . " She held out a long white hand to him as she spoke , then with a slight , pretty bend of the head she left the room , fol- 30 A BASIL PLANT .
... tone- " I must go now ; I promised mother I would be back to dinner . Good - bye , Mr. Goring . " She held out a long white hand to him as she spoke , then with a slight , pretty bend of the head she left the room , fol- 30 A BASIL PLANT .
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Ethel Coxon. bend of the head she left the room , fol- lowed by Evelyn , before Roland had re- ceived much more than the impression of a tall and very graceful figure , in dark brown velvet , and a well - poised head crowned with bright ...
Ethel Coxon. bend of the head she left the room , fol- lowed by Evelyn , before Roland had re- ceived much more than the impression of a tall and very graceful figure , in dark brown velvet , and a well - poised head crowned with bright ...
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... head back , to drink in the quiet of the great sky , now growing deeper with the first shade of twilight . Evelyn did not answer at once , the words held too deep a meaning for her . She had never felt her youth and her womanhood - the ...
... head back , to drink in the quiet of the great sky , now growing deeper with the first shade of twilight . Evelyn did not answer at once , the words held too deep a meaning for her . She had never felt her youth and her womanhood - the ...
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... head of which stood the hostess , the wife of a popular artist , a handsome woman in a dead gold gown , with a gold fillet in her thick black hair . A shake of the hand , a smile , and Roland passed on into the large drawing - room ...
... head of which stood the hostess , the wife of a popular artist , a handsome woman in a dead gold gown , with a gold fillet in her thick black hair . A shake of the hand , a smile , and Roland passed on into the large drawing - room ...
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... head , set so sweetly on its curved white throat , and crowned with waves of beautiful bright hair . Her eyes were lifted to the person with whom she was talking , and Roland could see how large and lustrous they were ; how ex- quisite ...
... head , set so sweetly on its curved white throat , and crowned with waves of beautiful bright hair . Her eyes were lifted to the person with whom she was talking , and Roland could see how large and lustrous they were ; how ex- quisite ...
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Academy afternoon Anley's answered artist asked awfully beautiful BECCLES better Breyn bright CHAPTER Charles Goring charming Colethorpe colour daffodils dear Desdemona dinner drawing-room dream dress earnest Evelyn Goring Evelyn's eyes face Fainton Cottage fancy father feeling fellow felt fond fool garden gaze Gertrude Anley Gertrude's girl glad good-bye Goring's grace greeted hair hand happy heard heart hope knew Lamia laugh light lips looked marriage married Max Breynton Max's mean Miss Anley Miss Goring never pain paint papa passionate pleasure pretty quiet realized Roland Trench Roland's picture round sadness Sarpedon saw her stand seemed seen silence sister Dora smile spoke stay stood strange studio sudden sweet talk Taplow tell tender things thought told tone touched turned Urania Vaneholm voice Warwickshire wife wish woman wonder words
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Seite 76 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Seite 107 - The voice which I did more esteem Than music in her sweetest key, Those eyes which unto me did seem More comfortable than the day — Those now by me, as they have been! Shall never more be heard or seen ; But what I once enjoyed in them Shall seem hereafter as a dream.
Seite 165 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another cpmfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Seite 85 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Seite 102 - The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...
Seite 102 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes.
Seite 165 - Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. DESDEMONA The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow!
Seite 217 - That day we met there, I and she One with the other all alone; And we were blithe; yet memory Saddens those hours, as when the moon Looks upon daylight.
Seite 121 - Beauty, The keys of this breast, — Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold? When first my eyes saw thee, I found me thy thrall, By magical drawings, Sweet tyrant of all! I drank at thy fountain False waters of thirst; Thou intimate stranger, Thou latest and first! Thy dangerous glances Make women of men; New-born, we are melting Into nature again.
Seite 174 - A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...