Jane Bouverie; or, Prosperity and adversity, Volume 577 |
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... much more prominently before the Author's mind than the hope of success , that , with a well - founded diffidence of her own ability , she laid aside the project entirely . It is , as she then considered , an acknowledged V1 PREFACE .
... much more prominently before the Author's mind than the hope of success , that , with a well - founded diffidence of her own ability , she laid aside the project entirely . It is , as she then considered , an acknowledged V1 PREFACE .
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Catherine Sinclair. It is , as she then considered , an acknowledged fact , that in a story , merely good - sort - of - people are the most unmanageable of all , and , as the rarest achievement in portrait - painting is to represent the ...
Catherine Sinclair. It is , as she then considered , an acknowledged fact , that in a story , merely good - sort - of - people are the most unmanageable of all , and , as the rarest achievement in portrait - painting is to represent the ...
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... considered as reading his own memoirs the most interesting to him , cer- tainly , of all . Every day represents a page fraught with those events which are gradually to develope the end ; and , as the volume approaches a final close ...
... considered as reading his own memoirs the most interesting to him , cer- tainly , of all . Every day represents a page fraught with those events which are gradually to develope the end ; and , as the volume approaches a final close ...
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... considered to have married imprudently on nothing , or at least on what the lord - and - lady world call nothing , meaning rather less than £ 1,000 a - year , with which moderate but rational income they succeeded in persuading each ...
... considered to have married imprudently on nothing , or at least on what the lord - and - lady world call nothing , meaning rather less than £ 1,000 a - year , with which moderate but rational income they succeeded in persuading each ...
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... considered by her sisters and cousins to have made , in taking only a pony- carriage with her to the country and a semi - grand piano . Nothing rivets the attachment of generous minds more securely than the many opportunities afforded ...
... considered by her sisters and cousins to have made , in taking only a pony- carriage with her to the country and a semi - grand piano . Nothing rivets the attachment of generous minds more securely than the many opportunities afforded ...
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Page 145 - As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow, While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, So the cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, Though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while.
Page 272 - Whom the gods love die young' was said of yore, And many deaths do they escape by this: The death of friends, and that which slays even more — The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is, Except mere breath ; and since the silent shore Awaits at last even those who longest miss The old archer's shafts, perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
Page 37 - Resign the honours of their form at Winter's stormy blast, And leave the naked leafless plain a desolated waste. 8 Yet soon reviving plants and flow'rs anew shall deck the plain ; The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, and flourish green again.
Page 238 - The churchyard bears an added stone, The fireside shows a vacant chair ! Here sadness dwells and weeps alone, And death displays his banner there ; The life has gone, the breath has fled, And what has been no more shall be ; The well-known form, the welcome tread, Oh ! where are they ? and where is he ? HENRY NEELE.
Page 61 - No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever.
Page 238 - OFT o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes the present (while the flash doth last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past Mixed with such feelings, as perplex the soul Self-questioned in her sleep ; and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we wore.