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... brought up ; and coffee was served at a later period in the afternoon . On both these occasions the housekeeper attended with a waiting - maid ; they reported that Lady Altamont looked very calm and composed , but exceedingly pale : it ...
... brought up ; and coffee was served at a later period in the afternoon . On both these occasions the housekeeper attended with a waiting - maid ; they reported that Lady Altamont looked very calm and composed , but exceedingly pale : it ...
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... brought to him , and among them was the unfortunately delayed letter of Rosabelle , giving an exact and lively account of her cousin's visit ; truth , artlessness , and innocence breathing in every line , while her expressions of ...
... brought to him , and among them was the unfortunately delayed letter of Rosabelle , giving an exact and lively account of her cousin's visit ; truth , artlessness , and innocence breathing in every line , while her expressions of ...
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... brought the whole scene so close that he gazed around as though pos- sessed with the wild hope that she would suddenly start to sight ; he repeated her name aloud , and the lone echo mournfully returned it . Alas ! the field - flowers ...
... brought the whole scene so close that he gazed around as though pos- sessed with the wild hope that she would suddenly start to sight ; he repeated her name aloud , and the lone echo mournfully returned it . Alas ! the field - flowers ...
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... brought this young creature ( for in spite of her ten years ' residence here she is certainly very young ) into this singular and doubtful si- tuation ? " Several ideas crossed his mind , all of which he rejected . He was startled from ...
... brought this young creature ( for in spite of her ten years ' residence here she is certainly very young ) into this singular and doubtful si- tuation ? " Several ideas crossed his mind , all of which he rejected . He was startled from ...
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... brought him aboard . As he immediately tendered his submission , which the other would not do , he was released the next day . We had done all our work , and having employed the Burmahs for a few days more in destroying the stockades at ...
... brought him aboard . As he immediately tendered his submission , which the other would not do , he was released the next day . We had done all our work , and having employed the Burmahs for a few days more in destroying the stockades at ...
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Page 118 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 82 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 118 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 98 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 327 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 253 - ... entirely apprehended by his hearer. There was sometimes an obvious struggle to do this to his own satisfaction ; he seemed labouring to drag his thought to light from its deep lurking-place ; and, with...
Page 71 - I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 247 - Snug the Joiner is the moral man of the piece, who proceeds by measurement and discretion in all things. You see him with his rule and compasses in his hand. " Have you the lion's part written ? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Page 71 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name ! Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 103 - Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), 'that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang came and stole her husband from her; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did!