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... appear against the pri soner , and forfeit all the recogniz . ances , or to appear in open court , and state that the charge was with- drawn , and that it had been founded entirely on a mistake . That even then , in either case ...
... appear against the pri soner , and forfeit all the recogniz . ances , or to appear in open court , and state that the charge was with- drawn , and that it had been founded entirely on a mistake . That even then , in either case ...
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... , at the end of that period , she again appear . ed in her father's presence , it was only to encounter - despite her wan - looks - a repetition of the harsh and cruel 28 [ July , Passages from the Diary of a late Physician .
... , at the end of that period , she again appear . ed in her father's presence , it was only to encounter - despite her wan - looks - a repetition of the harsh and cruel 28 [ July , Passages from the Diary of a late Physician .
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... appear conversing carelessly with Lord Scamp , who was himself too much agitated to attend to him ! The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty . No counsel had been retained for the prosecution , nor did any appear for the defence . The Court ...
... appear conversing carelessly with Lord Scamp , who was himself too much agitated to attend to him ! The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty . No counsel had been retained for the prosecution , nor did any appear for the defence . The Court ...
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... appear to us to be settling into hopeless ugliness . At that age we thought ourself the greatest genius on earth - an opinion long since abandoned by all except our enemies . At that age those whose wise parents have had them finished ...
... appear to us to be settling into hopeless ugliness . At that age we thought ourself the greatest genius on earth - an opinion long since abandoned by all except our enemies . At that age those whose wise parents have had them finished ...
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... appear excellent when seen by themselves ; but place them in a gallery of old pictures in the same line : transport them to the Stadthouse at Amster- dam , the King's Gallery at Munich , or the Flemish Room at Dresden , and the truth of ...
... appear excellent when seen by themselves ; but place them in a gallery of old pictures in the same line : transport them to the Stadthouse at Amster- dam , the King's Gallery at Munich , or the Flemish Room at Dresden , and the truth of ...
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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.