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... turn very pale . A suspicion of the real state of the case flashed across my mind . " Now , tell me , ma'am , candidly -confess ! Are not you speaking of yourself ? You really look ill ! " She trembled , but assured me emphatically that ...
... turn very pale . A suspicion of the real state of the case flashed across my mind . " Now , tell me , ma'am , candidly -confess ! Are not you speaking of yourself ? You really look ill ! " She trembled , but assured me emphatically that ...
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... turn , the arithmetic of the counting- house was easily mastered . What dismal drudgery had he henceforth daily to undergo ! The tyranny of the upper clerks reminded him , with a pang , of the petty tyranny he had both experienced and ...
... turn , the arithmetic of the counting- house was easily mastered . What dismal drudgery had he henceforth daily to undergo ! The tyranny of the upper clerks reminded him , with a pang , of the petty tyranny he had both experienced and ...
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... turn of the road which brought them full in sight of her father's house . There they parted - each satisfied as to the nature of the other's feelings , though nothing had then passed be- tween them of an explicit or decisive character ...
... turn of the road which brought them full in sight of her father's house . There they parted - each satisfied as to the nature of the other's feelings , though nothing had then passed be- tween them of an explicit or decisive character ...
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... turn us both out of his house together ! " - continued the excited girl- " I begin to loathe it― to feel indifferent about every thing it contains - except my poor unof- fending - dying mother ! - Come , come , Henry , and play the man ...
... turn us both out of his house together ! " - continued the excited girl- " I begin to loathe it― to feel indifferent about every thing it contains - except my poor unof- fending - dying mother ! - Come , come , Henry , and play the man ...
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... turn it against me ; and I - I too will rather endure its point than thy angry glances . It kills with more tolerable pain . ( He offers it to her . She lets it fall . ) Glyc . Dissembler ! How prompt to proffer things , of which you ...
... turn it against me ; and I - I too will rather endure its point than thy angry glances . It kills with more tolerable pain . ( He offers it to her . She lets it fall . ) Glyc . Dissembler ! How prompt to proffer things , of which you ...
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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.