Cheveley: Or, The Man of Honour, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1839 |
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... Herbert Grimstone had left the room in disgust , for he had given Monsieur Barbouiller his pamphlet " On the Present Administration " to read , begging that he would make any marginal remarks that struck him . Now , all that did strike ...
... Herbert Grimstone had left the room in disgust , for he had given Monsieur Barbouiller his pamphlet " On the Present Administration " to read , begging that he would make any marginal remarks that struck him . Now , all that did strike ...
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... Herbert Grimstone ; so addio mio caro ! " saying which , he darted off , leaving Mowbray to choose what path he liked . As he advanced into the garden , he found it THE MAN OF HONOUR . 19.
... Herbert Grimstone ; so addio mio caro ! " saying which , he darted off , leaving Mowbray to choose what path he liked . As he advanced into the garden , he found it THE MAN OF HONOUR . 19.
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... Herbert Grimstone came , after having imprinted a gallant kiss on his mother's skinny hand , and told her , that ... Herbert . Here followed a false and garbled statement of poor Julia's disjointed wrist , which when he had heard , Mr ...
... Herbert Grimstone came , after having imprinted a gallant kiss on his mother's skinny hand , and told her , that ... Herbert . Here followed a false and garbled statement of poor Julia's disjointed wrist , which when he had heard , Mr ...
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... Herbert's extended hand , " but- ” Here their amiable mother interrupted this nobile fratrum to explain her plan on the occasion , of which Mr. Herbert Grimstone approved as highly as his brother had previously done , and then said , 66 ...
... Herbert's extended hand , " but- ” Here their amiable mother interrupted this nobile fratrum to explain her plan on the occasion , of which Mr. Herbert Grimstone approved as highly as his brother had previously done , and then said , 66 ...
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... Herbert , who is at the door ? " " Yes - no - that is , " said Lady de Clifford , pushing " Picciola " under the pillow , " my compliments to Mr. Mowbray , I am better this morning ; but I am really not well enough to see Mr. Grimstone ...
... Herbert , who is at the door ? " " Yes - no - that is , " said Lady de Clifford , pushing " Picciola " under the pillow , " my compliments to Mr. Mowbray , I am better this morning ; but I am really not well enough to see Mr. Grimstone ...
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Page 135 - AH, Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
Page 40 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes ; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
Page 213 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Page 185 - With one or other of his loose consorts. I am a knave, if I know what to say, What course to take, or which way to resolve. My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass, Wherein my imaginations run like sands, Filling up time; but then are turn'd and turn'd: So that I know not what to stay upon, And less, to put in act.
Page 130 - Yon gentle hills, Robed in a garment of untrodden snow ; Yon darksome rocks, whence icicles depend, ' So stainless, that their white and glittering spires Tinge not the moon's pure beam ; yon castled steep, Whose banner hangeth o'er the time-worn tower So idly, that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace ; all form a scene Where musing Solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness ; Where Silence undisturbed might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still.
Page 24 - Remember the old man, and what he was Years after he had heard this heavy news. His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength.
Page 3 - There is a gloom in deep love, as in deep water : there is a silence in it which suspends the foot, and the folded arms and the dejected head are the images it reflects. No voice shakes its surface : the Muses themselves approach it with a tardy and a timid step, and with a low and tremulous and melancholy song.
Page 92 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Page 102 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 73 - Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.