Concealment [by lady M. Richardson]. |
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... sister . From their earliest years it had been understood that they were destined for each other ; the time for the celebration of the marriage was even fixed when Mr Loraine who was then at Oxford eloped with the lovely being you had ...
... sister . From their earliest years it had been understood that they were destined for each other ; the time for the celebration of the marriage was even fixed when Mr Loraine who was then at Oxford eloped with the lovely being you had ...
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... sister of Clare . It is true , I am in love . But the love of twenty - eight is not blind ; it is only deep , and its object insures that it must be lasting . " On my arrival here above a month ago , I was warmly and affectionately ...
... sister of Clare . It is true , I am in love . But the love of twenty - eight is not blind ; it is only deep , and its object insures that it must be lasting . " On my arrival here above a month ago , I was warmly and affectionately ...
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... a cool and dispassionate account of my feelings you would accord me , in this instance at least , the praise of being a hero . Give to my darling sister my truest love , and believe me ever your affectionate " HERBERT CONCEALMENT . 39.
... a cool and dispassionate account of my feelings you would accord me , in this instance at least , the praise of being a hero . Give to my darling sister my truest love , and believe me ever your affectionate " HERBERT CONCEALMENT . 39.
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... sister . " " I intended it , and I was in hopes , I might have fixed the time of my return - but- " " But , the Moon , the inconstant Moon , ' wills it not so , " said Lady Seymour rising and leaving the room with the resolution of ...
... sister . " " I intended it , and I was in hopes , I might have fixed the time of my return - but- " " But , the Moon , the inconstant Moon , ' wills it not so , " said Lady Seymour rising and leaving the room with the resolution of ...
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... Manse had , with the usual expansiveness of Highland dwellings , afforded a home to a nephew of Mr. Stuart the son of a sister who had been unfortunate in her marriage and who had gone to the West 88 CONCEALMENT . CHAPTER VIII. ...
... Manse had , with the usual expansiveness of Highland dwellings , afforded a home to a nephew of Mr. Stuart the son of a sister who had been unfortunate in her marriage and who had gone to the West 88 CONCEALMENT . CHAPTER VIII. ...
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Page 59 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 3 - If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife : My wife ? my wife ? what wife ! I have no wife. O, insupportable ! O heavy hour ! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 21 - Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart.
Page 181 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness.
Page 29 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires; And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Page 244 - But she has treasured, and she loves them all ; When in her way she meets them, they appear Peculiar people — death has made them dear. He...
Page 167 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 100 - And what, for this frail world, were all That mortals do or suffer, Did no responsive harp, no pen, Memorial tribute offer ? Yea, what were mighty Nature's self?
Page 166 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride; Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 1 - Well, so I did ; but yet I did not think To show to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode ; I only thought to make I knew not what ; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour ; no, not I ; I did it mine own self to gratify.