Mary Seaham. A NovelChapman and Hall, 1884 - 415 pages |
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... whilst on an opposite sofa an elderly lady had , it seemed , been overtaken by the same necessity , whilst to the murmur of the summer breeze she contemplated the satisfactory completion of the day's great event , over the large piece ...
... whilst on an opposite sofa an elderly lady had , it seemed , been overtaken by the same necessity , whilst to the murmur of the summer breeze she contemplated the satisfactory completion of the day's great event , over the large piece ...
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... WHILST thus absorbed , a step , whose sound the soft carpeting on which it trod had not permitted her to hear , approached near to where Mary Seaham sat , and a voice broke upon her reverie . She started a little , but perceiving who ...
... WHILST thus absorbed , a step , whose sound the soft carpeting on which it trod had not permitted her to hear , approached near to where Mary Seaham sat , and a voice broke upon her reverie . She started a little , but perceiving who ...
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... whilst they - and Aggy , my younger sister too - have been continually going about doing good . Truly like Wordsworth's old Mathew , I have been , 1 am afraid , " An idler in the land , Contented if I might enjoy what others understand ...
... whilst they - and Aggy , my younger sister too - have been continually going about doing good . Truly like Wordsworth's old Mathew , I have been , 1 am afraid , " An idler in the land , Contented if I might enjoy what others understand ...
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... whilst striving to recover from the sort of alarm her feelings had undergone , yet scarcely conscious of what she uttered . " I am not sorry , then , to find that you also can indulge in the weakness of a day - dream ! " But the awkward ...
... whilst striving to recover from the sort of alarm her feelings had undergone , yet scarcely conscious of what she uttered . " I am not sorry , then , to find that you also can indulge in the weakness of a day - dream ! " But the awkward ...
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... whilst he fixed his eyes on her face , as if on her answer his future course depended . " Where ? " she repeated with embarrassment , " you ask me , who knows so little of the world ; you , who know so much ? " " I do , indeed , " he ...
... whilst he fixed his eyes on her face , as if on her answer his future course depended . " Where ? " she repeated with embarrassment , " you ask me , who knows so little of the world ; you , who know so much ? " " I do , indeed , " he ...
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A. B. FROST amongst anxious appearance ARTEMUS WARD Arthur Seaham beautiful Bond Street BRET HARTE brother brow Burgh calm CHARLES LEVER cheek circumstances cloth gilt Coloured countenance course cousin dark dear Mary door E.C. New York earnest Engravings Eugene Aram Eugene Trevor Eugene's Eustace Trevor excited exclaimed expression eyes face fancy father fear feelings gaze gentle Glan Pennant glance hand happy heard heart hope husband idea Illustrations imagine interest JULES VERNE Lady Morgan letter lips London look Louis lover manner marriage Marryott Mary Seaham Mary's mind Miss Seaham Montrevor morning mother murmured nature never night Olivia once painful pale paused perhaps Poetical poor present replied Salisbury Square seemed silent Silverton sister smile sorrow soul speak spirit stood suppose tell Temple thing thought tone trembling turned voice whilst wife wonder words Wynne
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Page 42 - But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 281 - Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all." The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door. He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Page 379 - Lo ! the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah, home let him speed, — for the spoiler is nigh ! Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel, the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...
Page 295 - Be she meeker, kinder, than fhe turtle-dove or pelican : If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love? Or, her well-deservings known, Make me quite forget mine own? Be she with that goodness blest Which may merit name of Best; If she be not such to me, What care I how good she be?
Page 142 - There lies the poet's native land. The river of life, that flows through streets tumultuous, bearing along so many gallant hearts, so many wrecks of humanity; the many homes and households, each a little world in itself, revolving round its fireside, as a central sun; all forms of human joy and suffering, brought into that narrow compass; and to be in this and be a part of this; acting, thinking, rejoicing, sorrowing, with his fellow-men; such, such should be the poet's life.
Page 272 - tis youth's frenzy— but the cure Is bitterer still, as charm by charm unwinds Which robed our idols, and we see too sure Nor Worth nor Beauty dwells from out the mind's Ideal shape of such ; yet still it binds — The fatal spell, and still it draws us on...
Page 255 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, *M And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 417 - Last Days of Pompeii," and " Eugene Aram." 3 Marryat. Containing " Midshipman Easy," " Japhet in Search of a Father," "Jacob Faithful," and