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... perfect happiness , and at least £ 1500 a - year , is , to all concerned , as unsatisfactory and disappointing as a nut without a kernel . After many exhortations , therefore , from the partial friend , who continued impregnable in his ...
... perfect happiness , and at least £ 1500 a - year , is , to all concerned , as unsatisfactory and disappointing as a nut without a kernel . After many exhortations , therefore , from the partial friend , who continued impregnable in his ...
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... perfect model of neatness , where the party had already assembled who were to attend the dead to her final resting - place . It consisted of the doctor , an attorney , and a clergy- man , all wearing a suitable gravity of dress and ...
... perfect model of neatness , where the party had already assembled who were to attend the dead to her final resting - place . It consisted of the doctor , an attorney , and a clergy- man , all wearing a suitable gravity of dress and ...
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... perfect outcry of approbation arose among all our relations when they heard of the Duke's offer . All the usual jargon was made use of against a domestic education - that it would be a perfect disgrace if so promising a family were ...
... perfect outcry of approbation arose among all our relations when they heard of the Duke's offer . All the usual jargon was made use of against a domestic education - that it would be a perfect disgrace if so promising a family were ...
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... perfect equality . None of my children , poor as we are , could derive any real advantage from a long array of titled acquaint- ances ; and as for people merely rich , there is nothing I can less understand than the adulation paid to ...
... perfect equality . None of my children , poor as we are , could derive any real advantage from a long array of titled acquaint- ances ; and as for people merely rich , there is nothing I can less understand than the adulation paid to ...
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... perfect confidence of our opinions being received with the same attention as those of older people , and of our stories being as well appreciated . ' But , ' replied Lady Laura , smiling , it is notorious that very great people become ...
... perfect confidence of our opinions being received with the same attention as those of older people , and of our stories being as well appreciated . ' But , ' replied Lady Laura , smiling , it is notorious that very great people become ...
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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.