The only daughter [by H. Campbell] ed. by G.R. Gleig |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 37
... duties of her wealth , and station , in the dear and well remembered solitudes of Kilmore . Helen was but entering her fifteenth year when her father was called to attend the death bed of Mr. Faulconbridge , the inexorable parent of his ...
... duties of her wealth , and station , in the dear and well remembered solitudes of Kilmore . Helen was but entering her fifteenth year when her father was called to attend the death bed of Mr. Faulconbridge , the inexorable parent of his ...
Page 39
... duties of a wife and a daugh- ter . Helen was too much of a child to at- tach any of the importance to her father's communication with which it was so plen- tifully fraught , and it slipped through her mind as THE ONLY DAUGHTER . 39.
... duties of a wife and a daugh- ter . Helen was too much of a child to at- tach any of the importance to her father's communication with which it was so plen- tifully fraught , and it slipped through her mind as THE ONLY DAUGHTER . 39.
Page 48
... duties imposed an exit or entrance upon him . At last the tea was discussed and sent away , Roderick's impatient enquiries after his cousin subsided into a mute expression of roguish intelligence ; Ruth's brow con- tracted with anxiety ...
... duties imposed an exit or entrance upon him . At last the tea was discussed and sent away , Roderick's impatient enquiries after his cousin subsided into a mute expression of roguish intelligence ; Ruth's brow con- tracted with anxiety ...
Page 79
... duties imposed on him with a grace and alacrity which the nature of them by no means prescribed ; even Helen got rid of her constraint in her friend's sheltering presence , so that their visit to the poultry - yard was one of almost ...
... duties imposed on him with a grace and alacrity which the nature of them by no means prescribed ; even Helen got rid of her constraint in her friend's sheltering presence , so that their visit to the poultry - yard was one of almost ...
Page 157
... duties with not less of satisfaction to herself , than to the manifest benefit of all , for whose comforts she thus made herself responsible . Indeed nature seemed to have framed her , in every THE ONLY DAUGHTER . 157.
... duties with not less of satisfaction to herself , than to the manifest benefit of all , for whose comforts she thus made herself responsible . Indeed nature seemed to have framed her , in every THE ONLY DAUGHTER . 157.
Common terms and phrases
affection agony answered Helen answered Ruth anxiety aunt Katie aunt Katie's beauty believe blush breath Caroline Caroline Munro cheek Colonel Faulconbridge colour conbridge confessed daugh day-dawn dear Ruth dearest Ruth deep Drummond Dunardoch effort enjoyment entreaties eyes face fair fancy fate father Faul Faulcon feeling felt gaiety gaze gentle glance gratitude hand happiness Harewood House heart Helen rose Hemingsley honour hope hour Kilmore Kindrome knew Lady Munro Ladyship laughing less letter Lillias loch looked Lord Harewood Major Tracy ment mind Miss Annesley Miss Campbell Monzievar morning nature ness never night noble once pain pale poor racter rendered replied rience Roderick rose round Ruth Annesley Ruth's scarcely Scotland seated seemed SHAKSPEARE silence Sir Evan smile solitude sorrow Southron spirit suffering sympathy taste tears thank thought tion tone turned uncon voice walk words young
Popular passages
Page 1 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 3 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 212 - But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 193 - And blushed and smiled the tale to hear, Poured from her dark-eyed cavalier ; And yet, I too must moralize, Albeit with gentler sympathies, Of all my own fond heart can tell Of love's despair, and love's farewell, — Its many miseries ; — its tears, Like lava, not like dew ; — its fears, That make hope painful ; — then its trust, So often trampled in the dust ; — Neglected, blighted, and betrayed, A sorrow and a mockery made ! Then change and adverse fortune, all That binds and keeps sweet...
Page 21 - give me to drink mandragora, " That I may sleep out this great gap of time
Page 244 - OVER the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey ; Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way.
Page 37 - Ch'io non son forte ad aspettar la luce Di questa donna, e non so fare schermi Di luoghi tenebrosi, o d
Page 247 - The Gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid, That rightly think'st and hast most rightly said.