Jane Bouverie; or, Prosperity and adversity, Volume 577 |
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... income scarcely amounted to a straw a - day , and she vegetated through a life of seventy years with scarcely excitement enough to keep her from stag- nation . If cats have nine lives , old women have nineteen ! I wish she had ...
... income scarcely amounted to a straw a - day , and she vegetated through a life of seventy years with scarcely excitement enough to keep her from stag- nation . If cats have nine lives , old women have nineteen ! I wish she had ...
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... income , no less than four hundred and ninety - nine pounds nineteen and elevenpence farthing . The rest I really must keep for contingencies . ' " I hate contingencies ! You never carry about a wooden leg , Bouverie , in case one of ...
... income , no less than four hundred and ninety - nine pounds nineteen and elevenpence farthing . The rest I really must keep for contingencies . ' " I hate contingencies ! You never carry about a wooden leg , Bouverie , in case one of ...
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... income they succeeded in persuading each other that the mere want of money could not make them poor . They were convinced that it might be quite possible to rough it comfortably through life on little , believing , as they did then ...
... income they succeeded in persuading each other that the mere want of money could not make them poor . They were convinced that it might be quite possible to rough it comfortably through life on little , believing , as they did then ...
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... income , for those who share it in common , to relinquish their own wishes , and to relinquish them clandestinely , if possible , for the comfort or happiness of the partner they love ; and none of these occasions were ever overlooked ...
... income , for those who share it in common , to relinquish their own wishes , and to relinquish them clandestinely , if possible , for the comfort or happiness of the partner they love ; and none of these occasions were ever overlooked ...
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... income was incom- petent ; therefore they both rather shrunk from being patronised . 1 It is a noticeable fact that the less anxious people are about the world , and especially the great world , the more it courts them , and no weakness ...
... income was incom- petent ; therefore they both rather shrunk from being patronised . 1 It is a noticeable fact that the less anxious people are about the world , and especially the great world , the more it courts them , and no weakness ...
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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.