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... existence . He felt satisfied that Miss Hillary's attachment to him was ardent and unalterable ; and that nothing short of main force would prevent her from adopting any suggestion he might offer . As for himself , he was passionately ...
... existence . He felt satisfied that Miss Hillary's attachment to him was ardent and unalterable ; and that nothing short of main force would prevent her from adopting any suggestion he might offer . As for himself , he was passionately ...
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... existence . Of hers he was but too well aware . The chilness of her glance struck no cold into his heart . His eye told her this fact plainly enough : yet she appeared to require a more distinct inter- preter . Often at public festivals ...
... existence . Of hers he was but too well aware . The chilness of her glance struck no cold into his heart . His eye told her this fact plainly enough : yet she appeared to require a more distinct inter- preter . Often at public festivals ...
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... existence , or that period in the history of art when excellence naturally arises . Expe- rience proves the reverse in every department . In truth , so far is art from advancing , like national wealth or power , to eminence by slow de ...
... existence , or that period in the history of art when excellence naturally arises . Expe- rience proves the reverse in every department . In truth , so far is art from advancing , like national wealth or power , to eminence by slow de ...
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... existence when excellence in the fine arts might naturally be expected , in which Athens raised the matchless portico of the Parthenon , and Rome the stately dome of the Pantheon , and modern Italy gave birth to Ra- phael and ...
... existence when excellence in the fine arts might naturally be expected , in which Athens raised the matchless portico of the Parthenon , and Rome the stately dome of the Pantheon , and modern Italy gave birth to Ra- phael and ...
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... existence , she was ignorant ; her neighbour the Chamberlain she had never seen or heard of . Shortly afterwards , during one of the intervals of magnetic sleep , she thus suddenly addressed the doc- tor : - " I see that man always be ...
... existence , she was ignorant ; her neighbour the Chamberlain she had never seen or heard of . Shortly afterwards , during one of the intervals of magnetic sleep , she thus suddenly addressed the doc- tor : - " I see that man always be ...
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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.