Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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Page 80
... Ursule ! " and she rose hur- riedly . The voice was not that of a master's . Ursule had not obeyed as a servant obeys . There was an indescribable sort of willingness of heart in the precipitation with which she rose ; and yet I ...
... Ursule ! " and she rose hur- riedly . The voice was not that of a master's . Ursule had not obeyed as a servant obeys . There was an indescribable sort of willingness of heart in the precipitation with which she rose ; and yet I ...
Page 81
... Ursule's window . Ur- tions of the day , excited by trifles , and talking for sule blushed , and then smiled even more sweetly the love of talk ! - than usual . Each day after that Ursule had a had forgotten a melancholy , a dreaming ...
... Ursule's window . Ur- tions of the day , excited by trifles , and talking for sule blushed , and then smiled even more sweetly the love of talk ! - than usual . Each day after that Ursule had a had forgotten a melancholy , a dreaming ...
Page 82
... Ursule ! ' she said to me . ' My only regret is to part from you . Have courage ; take good care of mother and father . They are good , Ur- sule ; they love us , although they do not always tell us so . Take care of your health , for ...
... Ursule ! ' she said to me . ' My only regret is to part from you . Have courage ; take good care of mother and father . They are good , Ur- sule ; they love us , although they do not always tell us so . Take care of your health , for ...
Page 83
... Ursule . A parting ray of sun - light was shining on the window , and was reflected on her head , giving her black hair an unaccustomed lus- tre . A gleam of joy rose in her eyes as she saw me ; and she smiled with that sad smile which ...
... Ursule . A parting ray of sun - light was shining on the window , and was reflected on her head , giving her black hair an unaccustomed lus- tre . A gleam of joy rose in her eyes as she saw me ; and she smiled with that sad smile which ...
Page 84
... Ursule the time passed happily away . But one day arrived , when Maurice , entering the small parlor , said to his affianced— ' My daughter , ” replied the blind , old woman , Love , let us hasten our marriage ! My reg- feeling to take ...
... Ursule the time passed happily away . But one day arrived , when Maurice , entering the small parlor , said to his affianced— ' My daughter , ” replied the blind , old woman , Love , let us hasten our marriage ! My reg- feeling to take ...
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...