Tales and Novels, Volume 5J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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Page 65 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 192 - Wretched would be the pair above all names of wretchedness, who should be doomed to adjust by reason every morning all the minute detail of a domestic day.
Page 71 - Who now will guard bewilder'd youth Safe from the fierce assault of hostile rage ? Such war can Virtue wage, Virtue, that bears the sacred shield of Truth ? Alas ! full oft on Guilt's victorious car The spoils of Virtue are in triumph borne ; While the fair captive, mark'd with many a scar, In lone obscurity, oppress'd, forlorn, Resigns to tears her angel form.
Page 223 - If of these the whole power is not accurately delivered, it must be remembered, that while our language is yet living, and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks it, these words are hourly shifting their relations, and can no more be ascertained in a dictionary, than a grove, in the agitation of a storm, can be accurately delineated from its picture in the water.
Page 111 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
Page 242 - And thou the accuser. Thus it shall befall Him who, to worth in women overtrusting, Lets her will rule ; restraint she will not brook, And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
Page 224 - I remember ? Why she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on : and yet, within a month ! Let me not think...
Page 11 - In Lady Clonbrony's address there was a mixture of constraint, affectation, and indecision, unusual in a person of her birth, rank, and knowledge of the world. A natural and unnatural manner seemed struggling in all her gestures, and in every syllable that she articulated — a naturally free, familiar, goodnatured, precipitate, Irish manner, had been schooled, and schooled late in life, into a sober, cold, still, stiff deportment, which she mistook for English.
Page 188 - I have reason to believe I am right, my love," said the husband, mildly. " Reason !" e'xclaimed the wife, astonished. "What reason can you possibly have to believe you are right, when I tell you I am morally certain you are wrong, my love?" 7. " My only reason for doubting it is, that I set my watch by the sun to-day." " The sun must be wrong, then...
Page 37 - em well ; and we all got to the great gate of the park before sunset, and as fine an evening as ever you see ; with the sun shining on the tops of the trees, as the ladies noticed the leaves changed, but not dropped, though so late in the season. I believe the leaves knew what they were about, and kept on, on purpose to...