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... poor creature's wan face and hollow eyes : nor in her conver- sation : nor in her manner , which was as quick to show feeling as in the days of her innocent youth . Was it for one sin , one impatient rebellion against poverty - that the ...
... poor creature's wan face and hollow eyes : nor in her conver- sation : nor in her manner , which was as quick to show feeling as in the days of her innocent youth . Was it for one sin , one impatient rebellion against poverty - that the ...
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... poor woman . ' Mind , you've had a husband , you're a widow . Who was he ? what was he ? where did he die ? what did he leave you ? ' Florry shook her head . The necessity of this invention had not yet occurred to her . ' Make him ...
... poor woman . ' Mind , you've had a husband , you're a widow . Who was he ? what was he ? where did he die ? what did he leave you ? ' Florry shook her head . The necessity of this invention had not yet occurred to her . ' Make him ...
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... poor thing ! There is to be champagne and the Best Service . ' ' I will come if I must , ' said poor Florry . ' You can begin about your husband to - morrow evening . Get your hand in . Your husband - your Richard - travelled in hops ...
... poor thing ! There is to be champagne and the Best Service . ' ' I will come if I must , ' said poor Florry . ' You can begin about your husband to - morrow evening . Get your hand in . Your husband - your Richard - travelled in hops ...
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... poor , but they resolved never to part . Nothing should part them . Then one married , and at first it seemed as if her fate was going to be miserable indeed . But they remained together , and they went abroad together , and while the ...
... poor , but they resolved never to part . Nothing should part them . Then one married , and at first it seemed as if her fate was going to be miserable indeed . But they remained together , and they went abroad together , and while the ...
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... poor gongylus is a creature of slow and deliberate movements , at least when it is under a finger - glass , and at first they seemed to take no notice of the flies . But presently the long head would turn towards a fly ; a rapid ...
... poor gongylus is a creature of slow and deliberate movements , at least when it is under a finger - glass , and at first they seemed to take no notice of the flies . But presently the long head would turn towards a fly ; a rapid ...
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Page 447 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Page 441 - Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore, Though evening with her richest dye Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruined pride.
Page 443 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 442 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 442 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, i Sleep to wake.
Page 18 - Lamb ; it is the fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints.
Page 625 - The maner of these playes weare, every company had his pagiant, wch pagiants weare a high scaffolde with 2 rowmes, a higher and a lower, upon 4 wheeles. In the lower they apparelled themselves, and in the higher rowme they played, beinge all open on the tope, that all behoulders might heare and see them.
Page 224 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 627 - Me thynk he pepys. Mak. When he wakyns, he wepys. I pray you go hence. 66 iijus pastor. Gyf me lefe hym to kys and lyft up the clowtt. What the dewill is this? He has a long snowte.
Page 216 - ... it must make amends by displaying depth of knowledge and dexterity of execution. We, therefore, bestow no mean compliment upon the author of •Emma, when we say that, keeping close to common incidents, and to such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of uncommon events, arising from the consideration of minds, manners and sentiments, greatly above our own.