Temple Bar, Volume 39George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1873 |
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... Perhaps choice was embarrassed by quantity . I fancied , too , that I missed something in their tone - something my instincts knew but could not name . A few days later I found a letter on my breakfast - table . The handwriting was ...
... Perhaps choice was embarrassed by quantity . I fancied , too , that I missed something in their tone - something my instincts knew but could not name . A few days later I found a letter on my breakfast - table . The handwriting was ...
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... perhaps apprehensively . It went leisurely along , gliding rather than walking . It was draped in white , but over its back was thrown some dark covering , probably a shawl . At the dis- tance I stood from it , I could not discern the ...
... perhaps apprehensively . It went leisurely along , gliding rather than walking . It was draped in white , but over its back was thrown some dark covering , probably a shawl . At the dis- tance I stood from it , I could not discern the ...
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... perhaps she was just then a little troubled . But she did look as though she cried a good deal on the quiet , or went about with a trouble she wouldn't confess . She has little white hands , and is a good figure . Her hair is straw ...
... perhaps she was just then a little troubled . But she did look as though she cried a good deal on the quiet , or went about with a trouble she wouldn't confess . She has little white hands , and is a good figure . Her hair is straw ...
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... perhaps impossible , to establish an acquaintance . I tried to laugh at myself when I discovered that I , the staunch bachelor , the student who had plighted his troth to solitude , was tax- ing my brains for a means of introduction to ...
... perhaps impossible , to establish an acquaintance . I tried to laugh at myself when I discovered that I , the staunch bachelor , the student who had plighted his troth to solitude , was tax- ing my brains for a means of introduction to ...
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... perhaps that his polite incredulity curbed my natural ten- dency to rhapsodise , or I might have written myself down a greater ass in his eyes than he was disposed to think me . We left the house at an hour considerably past the ...
... perhaps that his polite incredulity curbed my natural ten- dency to rhapsodise , or I might have written myself down a greater ass in his eyes than he was disposed to think me . We left the house at an hour considerably past the ...
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Page 213 - Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have...
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Page 204 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
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Page 54 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
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Page 212 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...