The Inheritance, Volume 1William Blackwood, 1824 |
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... beauty were all that Mrs St Clair had to oppose to pride and ambition . The usual consequences , therefore , were such as always have , and probably always will accompany unequal alliances , viz . the displeasure of friends , the want ...
... beauty were all that Mrs St Clair had to oppose to pride and ambition . The usual consequences , therefore , were such as always have , and probably always will accompany unequal alliances , viz . the displeasure of friends , the want ...
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... beauty and grandeur ; but there seems to me something so simple and majestic in such an expanse of mere earth and water , that I feel as if I were looking on nature at the beginning of the creation , when only the sea and the dry land ...
... beauty and grandeur ; but there seems to me something so simple and majestic in such an expanse of mere earth and water , that I feel as if I were looking on nature at the beginning of the creation , when only the sea and the dry land ...
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... beauty to the object it magnifies , so no biographer could have exaggerated into virtues the petty foibles of his mind . Yet the predominating qualities were such as often cast a false glory around their possessor -for the love of power ...
... beauty to the object it magnifies , so no biographer could have exaggerated into virtues the petty foibles of his mind . Yet the predominating qualities were such as often cast a false glory around their possessor -for the love of power ...
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... human happiness , whether of love , glory , riches , or ambition . The beauty of the morning - the interest each object excited - the song of the birds - the smell of . the opening flowers - the sound of the waters , CHAPTER IV . 35.
... human happiness , whether of love , glory , riches , or ambition . The beauty of the morning - the interest each object excited - the song of the birds - the smell of . the opening flowers - the sound of the waters , CHAPTER IV . 35.
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... , for which I ask your pardon ; but , allured by the fineness of the morning , and the beauty of the scenery , I was desirous of getting out to enjoy them , and hav- ing in vain tried to make my way through a 46 THE INHERITANCE .
... , for which I ask your pardon ; but , allured by the fineness of the morning , and the beauty of the scenery , I was desirous of getting out to enjoy them , and hav- ing in vain tried to make my way through a 46 THE INHERITANCE .
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Page 127 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 118 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 126 - The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Page 141 - Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Page 106 - Pictures like these, dear madam, to design, Asks no firm hand, and no unerring line; Some wandering touches, some reflected light, Some flying stroke alone can hit 'em right: For how should equal colours do the knack? Chameleons who can paint in white and black? "Yet Chloe sure was formed without a spot"— Nature in her then erred not, but forgot. "With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"— She wants a heart.
Page 181 - He's a terrible man, John Tod, John Tod ; He's a terrible man, John Tod ; He scolds in the house...
Page 280 - I see also his prime time and his end. I do confess my faults and all my ill, And sorrow sore for that I did offend".
Page 141 - BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night?
Page 291 - When the rude wintry win' Idly raves round our dwelling, And the roar of the linn On the night breeze is swelling So merrily we'll sing, As the storm rattles o'er us, Till the dear shieling ring Wi' the light lilting chorus. Now the summer is in prime, Wi...
Page 281 - Thou that of grace restor'dst the blind to sight ; Thou that for love Thy life and love outbled ; Thou that of favour...