The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes, Volume 6Robert Hall Baynes 1869 |
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... eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad , so strange , the days that are no more . " TENNYSON . CAPTAIN BRANDRETH , accompanied by two strangers , arrived at his town house about two o'clock on the day following his ...
... eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad , so strange , the days that are no more . " TENNYSON . CAPTAIN BRANDRETH , accompanied by two strangers , arrived at his town house about two o'clock on the day following his ...
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... housekeeper at the Hall , resumed her work . She is sixty years old ; but her grey curls are thick and glossy , her eyes bright , her frame erect though spare . She is looking worn and harassed now , 4 THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BRANDRETH .
... housekeeper at the Hall , resumed her work . She is sixty years old ; but her grey curls are thick and glossy , her eyes bright , her frame erect though spare . She is looking worn and harassed now , 4 THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BRANDRETH .
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... eyes . " Oh , great heaven , have mercy ! that name again ! After all these years " Agnes , death is clearing away the Pride has caused the ruin of my life , and through it I have ruined others . But for it I should not have lived so ...
... eyes . " Oh , great heaven , have mercy ! that name again ! After all these years " Agnes , death is clearing away the Pride has caused the ruin of my life , and through it I have ruined others . But for it I should not have lived so ...
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... eyes of his votaries ; it fell from Hilda's now . Twice deluded - twice forsaken - where and how would he cross her path again ? The note " from England , " brought on the night of the ball at the Hôtel Chevreuse , answered her question ...
... eyes of his votaries ; it fell from Hilda's now . Twice deluded - twice forsaken - where and how would he cross her path again ? The note " from England , " brought on the night of the ball at the Hôtel Chevreuse , answered her question ...
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... eyes flashed . Her languor and exhaustion disappeared as if by magic , and her striking beauty changed even the savage expression with which her companion was regarding her to one of mingled admiration and gratified malice . " You look ...
... eyes flashed . Her languor and exhaustion disappeared as if by magic , and her striking beauty changed even the savage expression with which her companion was regarding her to one of mingled admiration and gratified malice . " You look ...
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Page 1 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 635 - Bridget is so sparing of her speech on most occasions, that when she gets into a rhetorical vein, I am careful how I interrupt it. I could not help, however, smiling at the phantom of wealth which her dear imagination had conjured up out of a clear income of poor hundred pounds a year.
Page 628 - It has been the lot of my cousin, oftener perhaps than I could have wished, to have had for her associates and mine, free-thinkers - leaders, and disciples, of novel philosophies and systems; but she neither wrangles with, nor accepts, their opinions.
Page 641 - ... in more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof beautifully painted, but unable to satisfy the mind : and at last, like the pictures of the apartment of a connoisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called; so ever fresh, and green, and warm are all the inventions...
Page 33 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 16 - No dog was at the threshold, great or small ; No pigeon on the roof — no household creature — No cat demurely dozing on the wall — Not one domestic feature.
Page 290 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ; and to thee will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Page 173 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 636 - ... could you and I at this moment, instead of this quiet argument, by our well-carpeted fireside, sitting on this luxurious sofa — be once more struggling up those inconvenient staircases, pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours, and the delicious Thank God, we are safe...
Page 641 - My attachments are all local, purely local ; I have no passion — or have had none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books — to groves and valleys.