Riversdale Court: A Novel, Volume 1Tinsley, 1878 |
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... nature niggardly favoured regions have not the faintest conception , -wafted , I say , from all this and much more to my present English country home , the contrast was so strange , so icy in its effects upon my inexperienced intel ...
... nature niggardly favoured regions have not the faintest conception , -wafted , I say , from all this and much more to my present English country home , the contrast was so strange , so icy in its effects upon my inexperienced intel ...
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... natural consequence , over - possession of anything lessens , if not altogether destroys , its value ; and so it was , the feeling of ambition which , when excited in my father's heart for one daughter , was light and pleasant , became ...
... natural consequence , over - possession of anything lessens , if not altogether destroys , its value ; and so it was , the feeling of ambition which , when excited in my father's heart for one daughter , was light and pleasant , became ...
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... before so sweet and equable , is ofttimes irritable and uncertain , and her hopeful nature sad and desponding . What does it mean ? Alas ! what does it mean ? " She maketh no plaint , poor pretty creature ! 30 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... before so sweet and equable , is ofttimes irritable and uncertain , and her hopeful nature sad and desponding . What does it mean ? Alas ! what does it mean ? " She maketh no plaint , poor pretty creature ! 30 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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... nature of his character and disposition than did his father and sister , and no arguments on their parts could do more than simply lighten this weight of apprehension . " Do not forget , dear mamma , " reasoned 70 RIVERSDALE COURT .
... nature of his character and disposition than did his father and sister , and no arguments on their parts could do more than simply lighten this weight of apprehension . " Do not forget , dear mamma , " reasoned 70 RIVERSDALE COURT .
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... nature , steady studious habits - studious indeed to a fault , sparing himself neither by day nor night - would have been gratifying in the extreme to the father's heart , but for his son's present incomprehensible conduct . To Mr ...
... nature , steady studious habits - studious indeed to a fault , sparing himself neither by day nor night - would have been gratifying in the extreme to the father's heart , but for his son's present incomprehensible conduct . To Mr ...
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Page 263 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
Page 70 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.