Rosine Laval: A NovelCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833 - 300 pages |
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... friendship than if they had re- mained constantly together . The letters of Master Hugh did not remain unanswered - and those three old maids amused themselves in encouraging Ro- sine , at the age of twelve or thirteen , to reply to the ...
... friendship than if they had re- mained constantly together . The letters of Master Hugh did not remain unanswered - and those three old maids amused themselves in encouraging Ro- sine , at the age of twelve or thirteen , to reply to the ...
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... friendship which he and she had so often promised each other should be eternal . But instead of that , he contented himself with a cold , hasty visit of ceremony to the White Cottage , which he now found dull and intolerable , and ...
... friendship which he and she had so often promised each other should be eternal . But instead of that , he contented himself with a cold , hasty visit of ceremony to the White Cottage , which he now found dull and intolerable , and ...
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... friendship more ardent , but as pure and inviolable as ever , resumes fresh em- pire over both . Henceforth a new drama is to com- mence . The destinies of our hero and heroine are , from this hour , interwoven with each other , and ...
... friendship more ardent , but as pure and inviolable as ever , resumes fresh em- pire over both . Henceforth a new drama is to com- mence . The destinies of our hero and heroine are , from this hour , interwoven with each other , and ...
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... friendship , and Rosine instead of making re- sistance or uproar on the occasion , submitted with the prettiest grace in the world to the infliction . There again she was right , even if her inclinations had been the other way - for as ...
... friendship , and Rosine instead of making re- sistance or uproar on the occasion , submitted with the prettiest grace in the world to the infliction . There again she was right , even if her inclinations had been the other way - for as ...
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... friendship to my remembrance ? No , shame on me if I had , and I am glad that I forgot all your lessons exactly at that moment . Though I did in- tend to make him confess his fault and ask me for pardon , I am so glad I did not . Pardon ...
... friendship to my remembrance ? No , shame on me if I had , and I am glad that I forgot all your lessons exactly at that moment . Though I did in- tend to make him confess his fault and ask me for pardon , I am so glad I did not . Pardon ...
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Page 132 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain?
Page 132 - Examples gross as earth exhort me : Witness this army of such mass and charge, Led by a delicate and tender prince. Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event. Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 132 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 132 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 46 - Love ! no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it should be...
Page 61 - » In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper, or the morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Page 132 - Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 132 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more.
Page 123 - I believe there is no country on the face of the earth where there is less freedom of opinion on any subject in reference to which there is a broad difference of opinion, than in this.