The Living Age, Volume 118E. Littell & Company, 1873 |
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Page 166
... Frederick , who was very best to feel no sort of opposition to full of other thoughts , made no objection , the latter , and to look as if nothing but and Mr. Vane , who was not less pleased family love and union was symbolized by with ...
... Frederick , who was very best to feel no sort of opposition to full of other thoughts , made no objection , the latter , and to look as if nothing but and Mr. Vane , who was not less pleased family love and union was symbolized by with ...
Page 167
... Frederick also was really misplaced in such a family . Why such ideas should be so readily entertained by the different halves of humanity , I cannot tell . It was some- thing in Nelly's tone and something in the cut of Ernest's nose ...
... Frederick also was really misplaced in such a family . Why such ideas should be so readily entertained by the different halves of humanity , I cannot tell . It was some- thing in Nelly's tone and something in the cut of Ernest's nose ...
Page 168
... Frederick , wiser than Dick , who cent interested more people than Mrs. had suddenly come to her aid to disen- Molyneux . When Sir Alexis came into tangle for her that ravelled skein which the drawing - room after dinner , he re- had ...
... Frederick , wiser than Dick , who cent interested more people than Mrs. had suddenly come to her aid to disen- Molyneux . When Sir Alexis came into tangle for her that ravelled skein which the drawing - room after dinner , he re- had ...
Page 169
... Frederick with an undivided gaze . She was not conscious of any observation . She had eyes but for him alone . en- " Oh , yes , I think so . She has never | him a hunger for her presence which he been taught anything . She has not got ...
... Frederick with an undivided gaze . She was not conscious of any observation . She had eyes but for him alone . en- " Oh , yes , I think so . She has never | him a hunger for her presence which he been taught anything . She has not got ...
Page 170
... Frederick succeeded in laying and worldly well - being . It was gratifi- to his soul ; but to do him justice he cation as against profit - delight against much more generally perceived and ac- honour . I may , perhaps , judge him ...
... Frederick succeeded in laying and worldly well - being . It was gratifi- to his soul ; but to do him justice he cation as against profit - delight against much more generally perceived and ac- honour . I may , perhaps , judge him ...
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Page 519 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 316 - My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 45 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 466 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 466 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 318 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
Page 96 - After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections and support of the judgment) followeth the last fruit, which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels. I mean aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions.
Page 316 - I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it.
Page 318 - There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou — THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 466 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.