Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1819 |
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... Lady Emily one day to her cousin , " for I want you to go and pay a funereal visit with me to a distant re- lation , but unhappily a near neighbour of ours , who has lately lost her husband . Lady Juliana and Adelaide ought to go , but ...
... Lady Emily one day to her cousin , " for I want you to go and pay a funereal visit with me to a distant re- lation , but unhappily a near neighbour of ours , who has lately lost her husband . Lady Juliana and Adelaide ought to go , but ...
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... Lady Emily , you ... Juliana , to whom a jest was an outrage , and raillery incomprehensible , now started up , and , as she passionately swept out of the room , threw down a stand of hyacinths , which , for the present , put a stop to Lady ...
... Lady Emily , you ... Juliana , to whom a jest was an outrage , and raillery incomprehensible , now started up , and , as she passionately swept out of the room , threw down a stand of hyacinths , which , for the present , put a stop to Lady ...
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... Lady Juliana's authority : Were that the case , I should certainly think it a blessing to become Duchess of any body to- morrow . " " And can you really imagine , " said Mary , " that for the sake of shaking off a parent's authority , I ...
... Lady Juliana's authority : Were that the case , I should certainly think it a blessing to become Duchess of any body to- morrow . " " And can you really imagine , " said Mary , " that for the sake of shaking off a parent's authority , I ...
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... Lady Emily , with great exultation , told her the Duke of Al- tamont was to dine at Beech Park the fol- lowing day , but that she was to conceal it from Lady Juliana and Adelaide ; " for as- suredly , " said she , " if they were ...
... Lady Emily , with great exultation , told her the Duke of Al- tamont was to dine at Beech Park the fol- lowing day , but that she was to conceal it from Lady Juliana and Adelaide ; " for as- suredly , " said she , " if they were ...
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... Lady Emily regarded her , for a moment , with an expression of surprise that served to heighten her confusion . " I ... Juliana . " " No , no ! " exclaimed Mary eagerly ; " you are quite welcome . I am quite ready . I was wishing I was ...
... Lady Emily regarded her , for a moment , with an expression of surprise that served to heighten her confusion . " I ... Juliana . " " No , no ! " exclaimed Mary eagerly ; " you are quite welcome . I am quite ready . I was wishing I was ...
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Page 54 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie; My music shews you have your closes, And all must die.
Page 58 - ... full glory, either at the rising or setting of it, he would be so transported and amazed, and so admire the glory of it, that he would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object, to behold all the other various beauties this world could present to him.
Page 94 - A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god; Affects to nod And seems to shake the spheres.
Page 243 - Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Page 247 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 54 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 161 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 239 - As it slipped through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.
Page 233 - Teaching we learn ; and giving we retain The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot. Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine; Brightens for ornament, and whets for use.
Page 175 - I endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.