Romance and reality, by L.E.L. |
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Side 46
... dress , that our acquaintance may revenge themselves on our silks , by finding fault with our appear- ance ; we marry ; if well , it was interest - if badly , it was insanity ; -we die , and even that is our own fault ; if we had but ...
... dress , that our acquaintance may revenge themselves on our silks , by finding fault with our appear- ance ; we marry ; if well , it was interest - if badly , it was insanity ; -we die , and even that is our own fault ; if we had but ...
Side 68
... the room , and casting them on the neck - the slender fingers , so cold , so stiff , but glistening with gems - the crimson dress , whose contrast now seemed so unnatural to the skin , which had the 68 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
... the room , and casting them on the neck - the slender fingers , so cold , so stiff , but glistening with gems - the crimson dress , whose contrast now seemed so unnatural to the skin , which had the 68 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
Side 72
... sister , who , however , disappeared too rapidly . She found Mrs. Arundel in a lace cap , and a dress black , it is true , but black silk ! Had she bade farewell to her senses , decency , and 72 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
... sister , who , however , disappeared too rapidly . She found Mrs. Arundel in a lace cap , and a dress black , it is true , but black silk ! Had she bade farewell to her senses , decency , and 72 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
Side 73
... dress , to Mr. Boyne Sillery , her companion home . 66 Why , you see , my dear sister , it is quite unnecessary for a lady to lament one husband who is meditating taking another . " " Stuff ! -you are just as silly as the Doctor : I ...
... dress , to Mr. Boyne Sillery , her companion home . 66 Why , you see , my dear sister , it is quite unnecessary for a lady to lament one husband who is meditating taking another . " " Stuff ! -you are just as silly as the Doctor : I ...
Side 87
... gown - her dinner - dress ever since she married - recounts the trouble she has with her servants , or remarks that it is a great shame - indeed , a sign of the ruin to which every thing is hasten- ROMANCE AND REALITY . 87.
... gown - her dinner - dress ever since she married - recounts the trouble she has with her servants , or remarks that it is a great shame - indeed , a sign of the ruin to which every thing is hasten- ROMANCE AND REALITY . 87.
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Adelaide admiration Algernon amusement aunt beautiful Boyne Sillery brother called child Clarke cold coloured corn laws crimson dear death deep purple Delawarr delight dinner dress Edward Lorraine Emily Emily's enjoyment expression exquisite eyes face fairy favourite feelings Fitzroy Square flowers gave gentleman give grace green happiness heart hope human husband imagination indolent interest John Arundel Lady Lauriston Lady Mandeville Lady Mandeville's laugh light London look Lord Etheringhame Lord Mandeville Lorraine's lover Margaret Lindsay marriage married memory ment Merton mind Miss Arundel Morland morning natural ness never night once passed passion picture pleasant pleasure poet racter remember riston romantic rose round seemed sentiment shew smile soon sorrow Stanmore step sweet Swiss guards sympathy talk taste thing thought tion took Trevyllian truth turned uncle uncle's vanity walk wife window woman young youth
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Side 162 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Side 117 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Side 235 - Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Side 230 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Side 51 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time; the autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves.
Side 1 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Side 297 - Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burn'd hair, She had not known her child.
Side 1 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Side 209 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Side 296 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...