Cheveley: Or, The Man of Honour, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1839 |
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... tell them to the whole world . The fact was , that Julia shrunk from assuming any character , lest it might give him ... telling all the couriers , ladies'- maids , and valets at dinner , that his gentleman's dress would be the most ...
... tell them to the whole world . The fact was , that Julia shrunk from assuming any character , lest it might give him ... telling all the couriers , ladies'- maids , and valets at dinner , that his gentleman's dress would be the most ...
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... tell what it was , as Mr. Mowbray wished it kept a profound secret , and let other people do what they would , he never told anything his master did not wish to have known - when he did not know it him- self . The morning was sultry in ...
... tell what it was , as Mr. Mowbray wished it kept a profound secret , and let other people do what they would , he never told anything his master did not wish to have known - when he did not know it him- self . The morning was sultry in ...
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... tell Mrs. N. this when you see her , " added he , with his fin- ger at the side of his nose , as he made his exit . " Isn't that d ― nd garter finished yet ? " said Lord de Clifford gruffly , as he folded a note he had been writing ...
... tell Mrs. N. this when you see her , " added he , with his fin- ger at the side of his nose , as he made his exit . " Isn't that d ― nd garter finished yet ? " said Lord de Clifford gruffly , as he folded a note he had been writing ...
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... why don't you ring the bell for your maid , to come and see what a suffering angel her mistress is ? I tell you what it is , madam , if you don't wash your face and dry your tears , and go to that d - n'd ball 8 CHEVELEY , OR.
... why don't you ring the bell for your maid , to come and see what a suffering angel her mistress is ? I tell you what it is , madam , if you don't wash your face and dry your tears , and go to that d - n'd ball 8 CHEVELEY , OR.
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... tell how this happened ! " — and as he tried to get the rings off her fingers which were now visibly swelling to , his kisses and tears - which del- uged her hand , from the pain they occasioned , seem- ed to bring her back to a sort of ...
... tell how this happened ! " — and as he tried to get the rings off her fingers which were now visibly swelling to , his kisses and tears - which del- uged her hand , from the pain they occasioned , seem- ed to bring her back to a sort of ...
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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.