Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 57Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1865 - Literature |
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... eyes towards him , while Buckingham's stately figure and haughty manner made him also a mark for general observation . There were some fair ob- servers , however , who thought Sir Richard Graham the hand- somest of the three . Charles ...
... eyes towards him , while Buckingham's stately figure and haughty manner made him also a mark for general observation . There were some fair ob- servers , however , who thought Sir Richard Graham the hand- somest of the three . Charles ...
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... eyes , luxuriant black tresses , dark glowing cheeks , coral lips , and pearly teeth , showed what her charms would be when arrived at maturity . Henriette Marie inherited all her mother's beauty , and , indeed , was so like her mother ...
... eyes , luxuriant black tresses , dark glowing cheeks , coral lips , and pearly teeth , showed what her charms would be when arrived at maturity . Henriette Marie inherited all her mother's beauty , and , indeed , was so like her mother ...
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... eyes till the vehicle was out of sight which bore her to the Palazzo Bugiardo , — that is to say , to the Piazza de Mercanti , where the Count de Manque- d'argent was already in waiting . Perceiving him at a distance , Clotilde stopped ...
... eyes till the vehicle was out of sight which bore her to the Palazzo Bugiardo , — that is to say , to the Piazza de Mercanti , where the Count de Manque- d'argent was already in waiting . Perceiving him at a distance , Clotilde stopped ...
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... eyes of Signor Tomkins became accustomed to the gloom , and presently he perceived a tall figure approaching , wearing a broad - leafed hat with long tassels de- pending from it , and arrayed in flowing garments . If any doubt had ...
... eyes of Signor Tomkins became accustomed to the gloom , and presently he perceived a tall figure approaching , wearing a broad - leafed hat with long tassels de- pending from it , and arrayed in flowing garments . If any doubt had ...
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... eyes and contracted brow to divine the reason of this unhallowed expression . Had a ray of light at length penetrated the depths of her lover's skull ? Could he , by any chance , begin - so to speak - to smell a rat ? Was it all up with ...
... eyes and contracted brow to divine the reason of this unhallowed expression . Had a ray of light at length penetrated the depths of her lover's skull ? Could he , by any chance , begin - so to speak - to smell a rat ? Was it all up with ...
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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.