The Ladies' CompanionBradbury and Evans, 1865 - Women's periodicals, English |
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... kind . These impressions were of course instantaneous , though they take long to describe . Grave and ceremonious bows from both these persons , recalled me from my com- mentaries . I did not feel disposed to submit to such coolly ...
... kind . These impressions were of course instantaneous , though they take long to describe . Grave and ceremonious bows from both these persons , recalled me from my com- mentaries . I did not feel disposed to submit to such coolly ...
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... kind of chronique scandaleuse -certainly diverting , though pitiable enough for Certainly I was in some trepidation when , a man of sixty . He asked me who I saw at the next day , I attired myself for the long - talked - drawing - room ...
... kind of chronique scandaleuse -certainly diverting , though pitiable enough for Certainly I was in some trepidation when , a man of sixty . He asked me who I saw at the next day , I attired myself for the long - talked - drawing - room ...
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... kind and my regrets at the loss of so sympathising a friend- " Benvolere knows where to write to me . " It so happened , that on this morning , as I sat alone in the drawing - room , awaiting Colonel Tarragon's promised visit , the ...
... kind and my regrets at the loss of so sympathising a friend- " Benvolere knows where to write to me . " It so happened , that on this morning , as I sat alone in the drawing - room , awaiting Colonel Tarragon's promised visit , the ...
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... kind of cake , made of honey , which even after their most sumptuous and splendid feasts , they could eat of with fresh appetite . Vincent , home seems to me the honey- cake , to which a man rightly constituted should turn with fresh ...
... kind of cake , made of honey , which even after their most sumptuous and splendid feasts , they could eat of with fresh appetite . Vincent , home seems to me the honey- cake , to which a man rightly constituted should turn with fresh ...
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... kind of grand freemasonry . I've felt it nights when I've been watching with mother , and there has come up across the heavens the great cara- van of constellations , and a star that I'd pulled away the curtain on the east side to see ...
... kind of grand freemasonry . I've felt it nights when I've been watching with mother , and there has come up across the heavens the great cara- van of constellations , and a star that I'd pulled away the curtain on the east side to see ...
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Page 268 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 11 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 11 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 11 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 156 - My dear good lady," replied the author, "do not be gulled by such stories; the book is like your young heir there (pointing to a child of three years old, who was rolling on the carpet in his white tunics), he shows at times a good deal that is usually concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence!
Page 11 - Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear, And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell; He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Page 102 - At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy ;" the great humour of which consists in the whole narration always going backwards. I can conceive a man saying that it would be droll to write a book in that manner, but have no notion of his persevering...
Page 268 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Page 208 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 11 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!