Isabel DenisonH. Colburn, 1848 |
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... wish was rather to show the trials and temptations of common life - such life as all may know ; no exciting scenes , no startling incidents ; with but just so much of romance as at some time or other tinges the life of almost all men ...
... wish was rather to show the trials and temptations of common life - such life as all may know ; no exciting scenes , no startling incidents ; with but just so much of romance as at some time or other tinges the life of almost all men ...
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... wish to give it one look while it is still alive . " Miss Shepherd walked slowly into the next room , and softly undrew the curtains of the bed . " Amy ! " she murmured . The invalid opened her large blue eyes , and turned her pale face ...
... wish to give it one look while it is still alive . " Miss Shepherd walked slowly into the next room , and softly undrew the curtains of the bed . " Amy ! " she murmured . The invalid opened her large blue eyes , and turned her pale face ...
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... wish to see him , " he added , with a frown , " unless , indeed , you desire it . " Isabel sighed . " It is quite natural , Uncle James , " she said , " that you should not think of him , except - except almost to hate him ; but I am ...
... wish to see him , " he added , with a frown , " unless , indeed , you desire it . " Isabel sighed . " It is quite natural , Uncle James , " she said , " that you should not think of him , except - except almost to hate him ; but I am ...
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... wish . But what would you do , should he return and claim you ? " She looked up at him with some surprise . " Go to him , " she said simply . " And leave us all ? been like a mother to some asperity . Rachel , too , who has you ? " said ...
... wish . But what would you do , should he return and claim you ? " She looked up at him with some surprise . " Go to him , " she said simply . " And leave us all ? been like a mother to some asperity . Rachel , too , who has you ? " said ...
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... wish . " She spoke with such a glow on her cheek , such an earnest tone in her voice , that it thrilled through Herbert's heart . " But then , after all , how very weak human nature is , and I think what I mean is that you scarcely seem ...
... wish . " She spoke with such a glow on her cheek , such an earnest tone in her voice , that it thrilled through Herbert's heart . " But then , after all , how very weak human nature is , and I think what I mean is that you scarcely seem ...
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Page 161 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 3 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bias...
Page 78 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 172 - The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again.
Page 15 - Javan ! I know that all men hate my father; Javan ! I fear that all should hate my father ; And therefore, Javan, must his daughter's love, Her dutiful, her deep, her fervent love, Make up to his forlorn and desolate heart The forfeited affections of his kind.
Page 202 - BETTER trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Oh, in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth; Better be cheated to the last Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Page 280 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 72 - This is the prettiest low-born lass, that ever Ran on the green-sward ; nothing she does, or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble fqr this place.