London Society, Volume 16; Volume 18James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1870 - English literature |
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... sure - that this sort of heiress never marries a heiress - hunter . But there is a very important dis- tinction that requires to be drawn . There is a confusion of thought about heiress - hunting which re- quires to be cleared up . Your ...
... sure - that this sort of heiress never marries a heiress - hunter . But there is a very important dis- tinction that requires to be drawn . There is a confusion of thought about heiress - hunting which re- quires to be cleared up . Your ...
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... sure to have money . The mother relishes the supreme delight of giving the spoiled child money without his father's knowledge . Ever fond , ever indulgent , re- signed to see her son stretch his wings , provided she can tie a string to ...
... sure to have money . The mother relishes the supreme delight of giving the spoiled child money without his father's knowledge . Ever fond , ever indulgent , re- signed to see her son stretch his wings , provided she can tie a string to ...
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... sure to bring about some ridiculous episode . The keyhole refuses to admit the key . · What a bungle you are making of it ! ' exclaims Monsieur politely . Madame retorts , Open it your- self then , since you are so clever . ' ' Not I ...
... sure to bring about some ridiculous episode . The keyhole refuses to admit the key . · What a bungle you are making of it ! ' exclaims Monsieur politely . Madame retorts , Open it your- self then , since you are so clever . ' ' Not I ...
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... sure that he will take the first oppor- tunity of ventilating his views on the subject to his brethren in the common room . Æthix is a prig , of course , but then as being a fair specimen of the very young fellow of the present day , as ...
... sure that he will take the first oppor- tunity of ventilating his views on the subject to his brethren in the common room . Æthix is a prig , of course , but then as being a fair specimen of the very young fellow of the present day , as ...
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... sure to be able eventually to discover them in the immediate vicinity of a bust of her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria . But there are other scenes of a less tender and sentimental nature which one may witness in this locality . It is a ...
... sure to be able eventually to discover them in the immediate vicinity of a bust of her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria . But there are other scenes of a less tender and sentimental nature which one may witness in this locality . It is a ...
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Page 80 - ... that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes. I have seen a fan so very angry, that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing, that I have been glad for the lady's sake the lover was at a sufficient distance from it.
Page 80 - There is an infinite variety of motions to be made use of in the flutter of a fan. There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter.
Page 93 - tis a quiet spirit-healing nook! Which all, methinks, would love; but chiefly he, The humble man, who, in his youthful years, Knew just so much of folly, as had made His early manhood more securely wise! Here he might lie on fern or...
Page 20 - But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that to the Registry books. A man is as old as he's feeling ; A woman, as old as she looks...
Page 478 - Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of their garments, the waving of the robes of those whose faces see God.
Page 93 - While from the singing lark (that sings unseen The minstrelsy that solitude loves best) , And from the sun, and from the breezy air, Sweet influences trembled o'er his frame; And he, with many feelings, many thoughts, Made up a meditative joy, and found Religious meanings in the forms of Nature!
Page 80 - Fans, each of them shakes her fan at me with a smile, then gives her right-hand woman a tap upon the shoulder, then presses her lips with the extremity of her fan, then lets her arms fall in an easy motion, and stands in readiness to receive the next word of command.
Page 555 - Not only all common Speech, but Science, Poetry ' itself is no other, if thou consider it, than a right
Page 273 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Page 271 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of...