Jane Bouverie; or, Prosperity and adversity, Volume 577 |
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... evidently wished to be incog . , and was gliding along the road at a rapid pace near Knightsbridge Barracks , ' you are difficult to overtake ! ' ' Pierrepoint , my good fellow ! the very man , in the whole world , I am always most ...
... evidently wished to be incog . , and was gliding along the road at a rapid pace near Knightsbridge Barracks , ' you are difficult to overtake ! ' ' Pierrepoint , my good fellow ! the very man , in the whole world , I am always most ...
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... evidently imparted to men who boldly spend their last shilling , which we who timidly hover on the mere brink of ruin , are never worthy to learn . Poverty is like a nettle , which stings when apprehensively touched , but only take a ...
... evidently imparted to men who boldly spend their last shilling , which we who timidly hover on the mere brink of ruin , are never worthy to learn . Poverty is like a nettle , which stings when apprehensively touched , but only take a ...
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... evidently , to waste that time on a deceased patient which might have been more advantageously bestowed on a living sufferer : and the clergyman silently glanced over the title pages of several books , all religious , which were ranged ...
... evidently , to waste that time on a deceased patient which might have been more advantageously bestowed on a living sufferer : and the clergyman silently glanced over the title pages of several books , all religious , which were ranged ...
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... evidently dropped from his hand , lay prostrate on the floor . Who can tell what a day may bring forth , and still less what the events of a week may be ! The horse which Captain Bouverie purchased at Tatter- sall's on the day of his ...
... evidently dropped from his hand , lay prostrate on the floor . Who can tell what a day may bring forth , and still less what the events of a week may be ! The horse which Captain Bouverie purchased at Tatter- sall's on the day of his ...
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... evidently no choice between implicit submission or a sudden rupture with one who meant kindly , and to whom my father owed the utmost consideration . Lord Charles felt doubt- ful also whether it would be right and prudent to refuse the ...
... evidently no choice between implicit submission or a sudden rupture with one who meant kindly , and to whom my father owed the utmost consideration . Lord Charles felt doubt- ful also whether it would be right and prudent to refuse the ...
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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.