Temple Bar, Volume 9George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1863 - English periodicals |
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... look back at the end of our journey to discover a straight and pleasant road- way by which , had we been wise enough to choose it , we might have travelled safely and comfortably to our destination . But Wisdom waits for us at the goal ...
... look back at the end of our journey to discover a straight and pleasant road- way by which , had we been wise enough to choose it , we might have travelled safely and comfortably to our destination . But Wisdom waits for us at the goal ...
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... look of surprise . " You didn't know I was in Lincolnshire , did you ? " she asked ; and then answered her own question in the same breath : " Of course you didn't , because I wouldn't let mamma tell you I was coming ; for I wanted to ...
... look of surprise . " You didn't know I was in Lincolnshire , did you ? " she asked ; and then answered her own question in the same breath : " Of course you didn't , because I wouldn't let mamma tell you I was coming ; for I wanted to ...
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... look back afterwards , and wonder to see upon what an insig- nificant incident the fate of after - years depended . " If I had gone down Piccadilly instead of taking a short cut across the Green Park the day I walked from Brompton to ...
... look back afterwards , and wonder to see upon what an insig- nificant incident the fate of after - years depended . " If I had gone down Piccadilly instead of taking a short cut across the Green Park the day I walked from Brompton to ...
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... look upon than the face of this blooming Eng- lish maiden . She had a beauty that is sometimes wanting in perfect faces , and , lacking which , the most splendid loveliness will pall at last upon eyes that have grown weary of admiring ...
... look upon than the face of this blooming Eng- lish maiden . She had a beauty that is sometimes wanting in perfect faces , and , lacking which , the most splendid loveliness will pall at last upon eyes that have grown weary of admiring ...
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... look sorrowful when she was pleased , as prudence might dictate ; to blush at will , or to grow pale when it was politic to sport the lily tint . She was a natural , artless , spontaneous crea- ture ; and she was utterly powerless to ...
... look sorrowful when she was pleased , as prudence might dictate ; to blush at will , or to grow pale when it was politic to sport the lily tint . She was a natural , artless , spontaneous crea- ture ; and she was utterly powerless to ...
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Page 480 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
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Page 215 - The gentry and citizens had little learning of any kind, and their way of breeding up their children was suitable to the rest. They were as severe to their children as their schoolmasters, and their schoolmasters as masters of the house of correction : the child perfectly loathed the sight of his parents as the slave his torture. Gentlemen of thirty and forty years old...
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Page 140 - Leah!" from me; and that the oddest of all possible engagements ended in the best of all possible ways. If my hair is somewhat thinner and my waist thicker than in those halcyon Pantheon days; if I no longer, like the depressing Rasselas, listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, or pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, still, I flatter myself, I extract a fair amount of honest enjoyment out of life. It is true that (after dinner) I occasionally tap my waistcoat pensively, and mutter...
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Page 302 - ONE year ago, a ringing voice, A clear blue eye, And clustering curls of sunny hair, Too fair to die. Only a year, no voice, no smile, No glance of eye, No clustering curls of golden hair, Fair but to die ! One year ago, what loves, what schemes Far into life! What joyous hopes, what high resolves, "What generous strife ! The silent picture on the wall, The burial-stone...
Page 504 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page 276 - ... by the weight of its charge, and drove back the Gauls and Spaniards into the rear of their own line. Meanwhile, its victorious advance had carried it, like the English column at Fontenoy, into the midst of Hannibal's army ; it had passed between the African infantry on its right and left, and now, whilst its head was struggling against the Gauls and Spaniards, its long flanks were fiercely assailed by the Africans, who, facing about to the right and left, charged it home, and threw it into utter...