Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 40W. Blackwood, 1836 - England |
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... able to answer many of your questions , sir , for I am very well acquainted with her situation , and was a good deal with her , not long ago . " 66 " Ah - that's well . Then will you be so kind , " giving a monitory glance at my watch ...
... able to answer many of your questions , sir , for I am very well acquainted with her situation , and was a good deal with her , not long ago . " 66 " Ah - that's well . Then will you be so kind , " giving a monitory glance at my watch ...
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... able to serve your friend as you wish - as she has desired ! " I handed to her a bottle of smell- ing salts , and after pausing for a few moments , her agitation subsided . 66 " Well , " she began again , tremu- lously , " what do you ...
... able to serve your friend as you wish - as she has desired ! " I handed to her a bottle of smell- ing salts , and after pausing for a few moments , her agitation subsided . 66 " Well , " she began again , tremu- lously , " what do you ...
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... able to go into the country and rest a little , a twelvemonth hence , and in the mean time attend as much as possible to my health - is it probable that it would not then be too late ? " " Oh , come , Mr Elliott - let us prefer the ...
... able to go into the country and rest a little , a twelvemonth hence , and in the mean time attend as much as possible to my health - is it probable that it would not then be too late ? " " Oh , come , Mr Elliott - let us prefer the ...
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... able embarrassment . ' Tis really of- ten a difficult thing to refuse a fee proffered by those one knows to be unable to afford it , so as not to make them uneasy under the sense of an obligation to wound delicacy , or offend an ...
... able embarrassment . ' Tis really of- ten a difficult thing to refuse a fee proffered by those one knows to be unable to afford it , so as not to make them uneasy under the sense of an obligation to wound delicacy , or offend an ...
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... able to discover ; but on the morning of the day she had fixed for her despe- rate dénouement , Mr Hillary , during the temporary absence of his daugh- ter , returned from the City about two o'clock , most unexpectedly , his manner ...
... able to discover ; but on the morning of the day she had fixed for her despe- rate dénouement , Mr Hillary , during the temporary absence of his daugh- ter , returned from the City about two o'clock , most unexpectedly , his manner ...
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Page 145 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 145 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 142 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart...
Page 147 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 435 - ... had been familiar from her very birth. She treads as though her footsteps had been among marble palaces, beneath roofs of fretted gold, o'er cedar floors and pavements of jasper and porphyry — amid gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but as she has never known want, or grief, or fear, or disappointment, her wisdom is without a touch of the sombre or the sad; her affections are all...
Page 443 - ... been returned, I hereby undertake to guarantee and save you harmless from any and every other expense whatsoever, whether of agents, carriages, counsel, petition against the return, or of any other description...
Page 435 - Shakspeare has lavished on many of his female characters ; but besides the dignity, the sweetness, and tenderness which should distinguish her sex generally, she is individualized by qualities peculiar to herself; by her high mental powers, her enthusiasm of tempera- ; ment, her decision of purpose, and her buoyancy of spirit.
Page 331 - ... him (as in truth they are) no other than a new set of thoughts or sensations, each whereof is as near to him, as the perceptions of pain or pleasure, or the most inward passions of his soul. For our judging objects perceived by sight to be at any distance, or without the mind, is (vide Sect. xxvm.) entirely the effect of experience, which one in those circumstances could not yet have attained to.
Page 68 - ... the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he washed himself. Complaining one day to Dudley North that he was a martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its relief, " Pray, my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt?
Page 42 - Her lips blush deeper sweets ; she breathes of youth ; The shining moisture swells into her eyes In brighter flow; her wishing bosom heaves With palpitations wild; kind tumults seize Her veins, and all her yielding soul is love. From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment.