Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 54Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1863 - Literature |
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... believe he had great cause to be angry with Bessie for dis- appointing him in the pleasure he had promised himself of dancing with her at the ball which was to be given in the servants ' hall at Wendley Court on New Year's - eve ...
... believe he had great cause to be angry with Bessie for dis- appointing him in the pleasure he had promised himself of dancing with her at the ball which was to be given in the servants ' hall at Wendley Court on New Year's - eve ...
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... . It's a pity they can't send you out to America , John , " she added , laughing ; " I do believe you'd bring those Federals and what - d'ye - call - ums- those fighting states - to a better understanding , if 6 BESSIE LEIGH .
... . It's a pity they can't send you out to America , John , " she added , laughing ; " I do believe you'd bring those Federals and what - d'ye - call - ums- those fighting states - to a better understanding , if 6 BESSIE LEIGH .
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... believe she knows the difference between a crow and a pigeon , and as to making butter , or looking after poultry , I'd sooner trust our little Lizzie to do either , though she is but six years old . Bless her little heart , she does ...
... believe she knows the difference between a crow and a pigeon , and as to making butter , or looking after poultry , I'd sooner trust our little Lizzie to do either , though she is but six years old . Bless her little heart , she does ...
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... believe her spell - bound , and fit to take her place among the courtiers of the " Sleeping Beauty , " thrown , as she seemed to be , by a magic touch into this attitude of motionless attention . " I say , Mary , won't we try to teach ...
... believe her spell - bound , and fit to take her place among the courtiers of the " Sleeping Beauty , " thrown , as she seemed to be , by a magic touch into this attitude of motionless attention . " I say , Mary , won't we try to teach ...
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... believe you are more likely to be happy with her- clever and industrious as she is - than you would with a richer girl , who might , perhaps , be proud and idle too . I won't say nay , " and your father is a sensible man , and generally ...
... believe you are more likely to be happy with her- clever and industrious as she is - than you would with a richer girl , who might , perhaps , be proud and idle too . I won't say nay , " and your father is a sensible man , and generally ...
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Page 54 - Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four — I love so much their style and tone — One Turner, and no more. (A landscape, foreground golden dirt, The sunshine painted with a squirt). Of books but few — some fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there . Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream.
Page 491 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 287 - And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 50 - My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood ; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith...
Page 138 - Presently he told her that the motion of the boat upon the stream was lulling him to rest. How green the banks were now, how bright the flowers growing on them, and how tall the rushes ! Now the boat was out at sea, but gliding smoothly on. And now there was a shore before him.
Page 141 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Page 131 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Page 486 - In truth, there is no such thing in man's nature, as a settled and full resolve, either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. Let us hope, therefore, that all the dreadful consequences of sin will not be incurred, unless the act have set its seal upon the thought.
Page 134 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 131 - ... magnificence. And on the sandy shore, beside the verge Of Ocean, here and there, a rock-hewn fane Resisted in its strength the surf and surge That on their deep foundations beat in vain. In solitude the Ancient Temples stood, Once resonant with instrument and song, And solemn dance of festive multitude ; Now, as the weary ages pass along, Hearing no voice save of the Ocean flood. Which roars for ever on the restless shores ; Or, visiting their solitary caves, The lonely sound of winds, that moan...