Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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Page 372
... Nelly was my foster - sister , dear little creature ! but he never , never he was never brother of mine in any shape , natural or adopted ! Yet we were all children together - all brought up together - Nelly , John , and I. And it came ...
... Nelly was my foster - sister , dear little creature ! but he never , never he was never brother of mine in any shape , natural or adopted ! Yet we were all children together - all brought up together - Nelly , John , and I. And it came ...
Page 373
... Nelly and myself , and the poor little dear was in the height of her fever , and I had heard my father say that he and my mother were going to sit up with her , as that night might be her last ! Unable to unravel the mystery , I dived ...
... Nelly and myself , and the poor little dear was in the height of her fever , and I had heard my father say that he and my mother were going to sit up with her , as that night might be her last ! Unable to unravel the mystery , I dived ...
Page 374
... Nelly , to take care of him or play with him . " That was the most that I could get out of them ; but , somehow , I resented the allusion to little Nelly . What right had they to mention her name in connexion with this black - eyed brat ...
... Nelly , to take care of him or play with him . " That was the most that I could get out of them ; but , somehow , I resented the allusion to little Nelly . What right had they to mention her name in connexion with this black - eyed brat ...
Page 375
... Nelly's cot , they both fancied they heard a strange sort of noise , which they were at a loss how to account for ; but , as I have already hinted , strange noises and inexplicable sounds were by no means uncommon in our house on wild ...
... Nelly's cot , they both fancied they heard a strange sort of noise , which they were at a loss how to account for ; but , as I have already hinted , strange noises and inexplicable sounds were by no means uncommon in our house on wild ...
Page 376
... Nelly's ? Monstrous - unnatural - cruel ! Well , I supposed it had come to this after all , and I went about with a very keen sense of wrong for at least two days . And Nelly quite agreed with me . " It was too bad of papa , " she said ...
... Nelly's ? Monstrous - unnatural - cruel ! Well , I supposed it had come to this after all , and I went about with a very keen sense of wrong for at least two days . And Nelly quite agreed with me . " It was too bad of papa , " she said ...
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Page 410 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 71 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 619 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Page 521 - When from the censer clouds of fragrance roll, And swelling organs lift the rising soul, One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight : In seas of flame my plunging soul is drown'd, While altars blaze, and angels tremble round.
Page 523 - Soft shall be his pillow. There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving ; There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving ; There, thy rest shalt thou take, Parted for ever, Never again to wake, Never, O never.
Page 618 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Page 619 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Page 411 - The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to do. " The memory of man," as it is elegantly expressed in the Book of Wisdom, " passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but one day.
Page 295 - He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of a heart, which is tender, even to a degree of weakness.
Page 78 - An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steamengine. But there are steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born.