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... Miss Avondale , followed , and she seemed pleased when the name of Delaware was pronounced . A glance of approbation flattered him his name had before reached her ears in a favourable manner . A short conversation on indifferent topics ...
... Miss Avondale , followed , and she seemed pleased when the name of Delaware was pronounced . A glance of approbation flattered him his name had before reached her ears in a favourable manner . A short conversation on indifferent topics ...
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... Miss Avondale directed her attention entirely to Lady Mary Cleveland , apparently regardless of every other person ; but this young nobleman , struck with her manner , her singular , but by no means pretty , countenance , could scarcely ...
... Miss Avondale directed her attention entirely to Lady Mary Cleveland , apparently regardless of every other person ; but this young nobleman , struck with her manner , her singular , but by no means pretty , countenance , could scarcely ...
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... Miss Avondale regardless , nay , altogether careless of his attention , he felt something like pique . That a young and pleasing person should devote herself entirely to the care of a lady , much older than herself - one who was no ...
... Miss Avondale regardless , nay , altogether careless of his attention , he felt something like pique . That a young and pleasing person should devote herself entirely to the care of a lady , much older than herself - one who was no ...
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... Miss Avondale had been tied to a husband whom it was necessary to fondle and spoil , she could not have done it better ; she seems to know , if I dare use the expression , the weak side of your mother . ” " Oh ! she sways her as she ...
... Miss Avondale had been tied to a husband whom it was necessary to fondle and spoil , she could not have done it better ; she seems to know , if I dare use the expression , the weak side of your mother . ” " Oh ! she sways her as she ...
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... Miss Avondale , " the patriotism which has always guided your son , seems to be the theme of admiration ; not the glare of vivid brilliancy , which whilst it enlightens , strikes the beholder dead . ” " I believe , " said Lady Mary ...
... Miss Avondale , " the patriotism which has always guided your son , seems to be the theme of admiration ; not the glare of vivid brilliancy , which whilst it enlightens , strikes the beholder dead . ” " I believe , " said Lady Mary ...
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Page 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...