Strathallan, Volume 1Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1816 - Fiction in English |
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Alicia Lefanu. several sheep and lambs with foreign looking faces Dear Matilda told me the whole principle of the camera obscura . It merely consists in contriving to have the light thrown on the surface of the - superficies of the ...
Alicia Lefanu. several sheep and lambs with foreign looking faces Dear Matilda told me the whole principle of the camera obscura . It merely consists in contriving to have the light thrown on the surface of the - superficies of the ...
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... Matilda has real beauty . " Lady Torrendale always laid a marked em- phasis on this expression ; by which she often indirectly designated her own more decided pretensions in opposition to the claims of the croud of barely pretty women ...
... Matilda has real beauty . " Lady Torrendale always laid a marked em- phasis on this expression ; by which she often indirectly designated her own more decided pretensions in opposition to the claims of the croud of barely pretty women ...
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... Matilda's excellence , in every elegant and feminine ac- complishment , she found , in storing her open- ing mind with useful and ornamental know- - ledge , ample and interesting employment ; at the same time Mr. Melbourne took care to ...
... Matilda's excellence , in every elegant and feminine ac- complishment , she found , in storing her open- ing mind with useful and ornamental know- - ledge , ample and interesting employment ; at the same time Mr. Melbourne took care to ...
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Alicia Lefanu. " No ; but Matilda might , my love , ” said his lady , smiling . " When she was a child , I found , like you , every pleasure ... Matilda a slave to dissipation , I own I could wish , that by being present at 56 STRATHALLAN .
Alicia Lefanu. " No ; but Matilda might , my love , ” said his lady , smiling . " When she was a child , I found , like you , every pleasure ... Matilda a slave to dissipation , I own I could wish , that by being present at 56 STRATHALLAN .
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... Matilda can tame him . " " Then she had better marry him , " Mr. Melbourne replied , as if he was not thinking of what he was saying . " No my dear , " returned his wife with earnestness ; " estimable as Sowerby is in his character ...
... Matilda can tame him . " " Then she had better marry him , " Mr. Melbourne replied , as if he was not thinking of what he was saying . " No my dear , " returned his wife with earnestness ; " estimable as Sowerby is in his character ...
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Page 347 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 347 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Page 148 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 475 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Macd. Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o
Page 148 - However, many books Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore...
Page 469 - The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemploy'd.
Page 259 - Ev'n now my thoughts, relenting maid, Thy temple's pride design : Its southern site, its truth complete, Shall raise a wild enthusiast heat In all who view the shrine.
Page 194 - And shriek as he whirls her around. While they drink out of skulls newly torn from the grave. Dancing round them the spectres are seen : Their liquor is blood, and this horrible stave They howl : — " To the health of Alonzo the Brave, And his consort the Fair Imogine ! " The perusal of this story was ill calculated to dispel Antonia's melancholy.
Page 501 - I'll let you see My actions with your rules agree ; That I can vulgar forms despise, And have no secrets to disguise. I knew, by what you said and writ, How dangerous things were men of wit; You caution'd me against their charms, But never gave me equal arms ; Your lessons found the weakest part, Aim'd at the head...
Page 217 - Bend forward from your clouds," I said, "ghosts of my fathers! bend. Lay by the red terror of your course. Receive the falling chief; whether he comes from a distant land, or rises from the rolling sea. Let his robe of mist be near ; his spear that is formed of a cloud.