Alan Dering, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1880 |
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agony Alan Dering Alan Dering's Alan's Aldershot answered Alan beautiful BECCLES Beechwarden bright Captain Dering Cecil Ruthven child Colonel dark eyes dear deep Dering felt despairing door dream Dumaresque's eagerly ears earth Ercildoun exclaimed face feel folly forget forgive Geoff Geoffry Dumaresque gipsy girl girl's glance gloaming grave grey hand happy head heart Heversham honour hour India innocent instant involuntarily Joan of Arc laughed light live look Madge Lee Madge's Mary Graham Mary Hamilton mind morning murmured ness never night once pale past picture quiet rest rêve ROBIN ADAIR Rosabel Round Pond sake seemed smile soft sorrow soul sound speaking spoke strange sunshine surely sweet Teddy Graham tell things thought to-night tone true turned uncon unconsciously voice wailing weary whilst wife wild woman wonder words young Lady Ruthven
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Page 31 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Page 120 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 44 - Meanwhile I was thinking of my first love, As I had not been thinking of aught for years, Till over my eyes there began to move Something that felt like tears.
Page 44 - Which she used to wear in her breast. It smelt so faint, and it smelt so sweet, It made me creep, and it made me cold! Like the scent that steals from the crumbling sheet Where a mummy is half unrolled.
Page 225 - In the gloaming, oh, my darling, When the lights are dim and low, And the quiet shadows falling, Softly come, and softly go; When the winds are sobbing faintly, With a gentle, unknown woe; Will you think of me and love me.
Page 44 - For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day. And I think, in the lives of most women and men, There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven. But O the smell of that jasmine-flower! And O that music ! and O the way That voice rang out from the donjon tower, Non ti scordar di me...
Page 75 - THE LAST WISH SINCE all that I can ever do for thee Is to do nothing, this my prayer must be : That thou mayst never guess nor ever see The all-endured this nothing-done costs me.
Page 14 - Oh, what's that in the hollow, so pale I quake to follow?' 'Oh, that's a thin dead body which waits th' eternal term.' Turn again, O my sweetest, — turn again, false and fleetest: This way whereof thou weetest I fear is hell's own track.' 'Nay, too steep for hill-mounting, — nay, too late for cost-counting: This downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.
Page 120 - People say things cannot be helped, dear, But then that is the reason why ; For if things could be helped or altered, One would never sit down to cry.
Page 68 - society man,' or'of much good in a crowd at the best of times ; but if it will not bore you too much, I should like to...