The Priest ...Baldwin, 1821 |
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the very soul of the spectator , and which he never can , for one instant , lose sight of , or repel . It was a form on which the vulgar gaze with awe , but which they reverence and obeya form which more discerning eyes recognise as the ...
the very soul of the spectator , and which he never can , for one instant , lose sight of , or repel . It was a form on which the vulgar gaze with awe , but which they reverence and obeya form which more discerning eyes recognise as the ...
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... never burned half so brightly . I see them now shining in her pale face , whiter and more beautiful than a pear- blossom . " - Shirley paused a moment to allow his auditor time to digest this • morceau of botanical learning . " Yet with ...
... never burned half so brightly . I see them now shining in her pale face , whiter and more beautiful than a pear- blossom . " - Shirley paused a moment to allow his auditor time to digest this • morceau of botanical learning . " Yet with ...
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... never been ; the heavy plashing of the rain against the roofs and walls , the rattling of the windows , the blasts of the wind , striving , as it seemed , to tear up from the foundations the seat of so much wickedness 22 " Peace ! Peace ...
... never been ; the heavy plashing of the rain against the roofs and walls , the rattling of the windows , the blasts of the wind , striving , as it seemed , to tear up from the foundations the seat of so much wickedness 22 " Peace ! Peace ...
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... never saw assembled elsewhere . My Lady Abbess , of the House of Marleyland , preserved not , her dignity or composure , better than the poor Portress who opened the doors for us . This was the effect 1 B of guilt , Master Secretary ...
... never saw assembled elsewhere . My Lady Abbess , of the House of Marleyland , preserved not , her dignity or composure , better than the poor Portress who opened the doors for us . This was the effect 1 B of guilt , Master Secretary ...
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... never varied , which no skill could heighten or depress , un- less himself vibrated the chord . And yet his features were pliant , and he af- fected not to give them immobility . As an ingenious piece of mechanism is made , by certain ...
... never varied , which no skill could heighten or depress , un- less himself vibrated the chord . And yet his features were pliant , and he af- fected not to give them immobility . As an ingenious piece of mechanism is made , by certain ...
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agony animated anxious appeared Archibald Shirley beauty Benjamin Shirley bosom bowed bright Broadgate Park brow calmness castle Catholic cheek child church colour Confessor countenance Countess of Arding daughter deep deepening demanded Lewen desired dignity Duke of Suffolk Earl of Arding effect emotion face Father Valerius favour feeling felt gazed glance glowed grave hand heart Heaven honour inclined kindly Lady Blanche Evelyn Lady Jane Grey Lady Joanna Lady of Arding Lady's Leicestershire Lewen paused lips Lord's Mark Russell Marleyland Master Lewen Master Secretary ment mind mingled Monk mother ness never observed pale passions penetrating perdition perfect Philip Altham pious present racterized rendered replied Lewen replied Shirley Roger Ascham Russell seemed Seneschal silence sion smile softened soul Steward stood Stranger subdued suffer thee thou art thou hast thou shouldst thou wilt tion tone tranquil trembling Verily voice whilst whole William Lewen young youth
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Page 67 - Geffrey's wife: Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost: I am not mad, I would to heaven I were. For then, 'tis like, I should forget myself. 0 if I could, what grief should I forget! I am not mad; too well, too well I feel The different plague of each calamity.
Page 121 - ... as a missionary ; — Miss Knight, sick and solemn ; —several Irish girls apparently on their promotion ; — Mr. Harvey, who plays chess, and takes care of his flowers : he has them in an hermetically sealed glass case, which he is taking to the Cape ; — a number of hitherto unnamed gentlemen, who sit down to eat and drink, and rise up to play ; — one or two pretty boys, who saunter about with Lord Byron in hand ; — and Mr.
Page 186 - And greatly altered in his disposition. When he came first to lodge here in my house, Ne'er trust me, if I were not proud of him : Methought he bare himself in such a fashion, So full of man, and sweetness in his carriage, And — what was chief — it showed not borrowed in him, But all he did, became him as his own, And seemed as perfect, proper, and possessed, As breath with life, or colour with the blood.
Page 67 - And, father Cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven; If that be true, I shall see my boy again...
Page 256 - For the Methodists in every place grow diligent and frugal; consequently they increase in goods. Hence they proportionately increase in pride, in anger, in the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life.
Page 251 - Spirit-filled life stir the church of which he was a member and to which he was loyal, to holy endeavor in the Lord.
Page 97 - Our hearts are deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked ; who can know them...