The only daughter [by H. Campbell] ed. by G.R. Gleig |
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... happiness to -to - not expediency , but duty and filial obedience ! but these things cannot influence our affections and ought not ; in short , I cannot believe it to be affection at all which is influenced by any earthly consider ...
... happiness to -to - not expediency , but duty and filial obedience ! but these things cannot influence our affections and ought not ; in short , I cannot believe it to be affection at all which is influenced by any earthly consider ...
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... happiness depends upon its being differently directed . " " Ruth , Ruth ! " replied she sorrowfully , " I know what you are thinking of , and that these strange inconsistencies are not what you really feel , but what you assume to work ...
... happiness depends upon its being differently directed . " " Ruth , Ruth ! " replied she sorrowfully , " I know what you are thinking of , and that these strange inconsistencies are not what you really feel , but what you assume to work ...
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... happiness secured by the result . " " That is altogether impossible , dearest Ruth , " replied Helen ; " for if it were possible , which I know it is not , that I should be tole- rated by a man of the world , I feel so disgusted with ...
... happiness secured by the result . " " That is altogether impossible , dearest Ruth , " replied Helen ; " for if it were possible , which I know it is not , that I should be tole- rated by a man of the world , I feel so disgusted with ...
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... happiness could not loosen , and all the endeavours of her husband , and his anxious solicitude for her comfort were unavailing , to soften the pang of remorse that was gradually undermining her health . Her reiterated attempts to ...
... happiness could not loosen , and all the endeavours of her husband , and his anxious solicitude for her comfort were unavailing , to soften the pang of remorse that was gradually undermining her health . Her reiterated attempts to ...
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... happiness should prevent the execution of the project . Accordingly the youth was summoned to the death - bed of his kinsman , and gave his troth to Helen through the medium of her father . Immediately after the funeral of Mr ...
... happiness should prevent the execution of the project . Accordingly the youth was summoned to the death - bed of his kinsman , and gave his troth to Helen through the medium of her father . Immediately after the funeral of Mr ...
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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
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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.