Romance and Reality, Bind 2J. J. Harper, 1832 |
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Side 1
... eye followed it driving through the sunshine , like a fairy shower of diamond or amber , till it seemed to melt on the green and distant hills into a mist , silvery but in- distinct . Mr. Morland was amusing himself with the County ...
... eye followed it driving through the sunshine , like a fairy shower of diamond or amber , till it seemed to melt on the green and distant hills into a mist , silvery but in- distinct . Mr. Morland was amusing himself with the County ...
Side 2
... eyes , clear , keen , and penetrating , with something almost fero- cious in their expression : ' And in his eye the gladiator spoke . ' If I believed in transmigration , I should have said that in his former stage of existence he had ...
... eyes , clear , keen , and penetrating , with something almost fero- cious in their expression : ' And in his eye the gladiator spoke . ' If I believed in transmigration , I should have said that in his former stage of existence he had ...
Side 5
... eyes on every pleasant spoken elderly gentleman who addressed me . 99 Lady Mandeville . " Do you remember the effect produced by the black hollyhock , hanging gloomily over the sepulchral white marble vase ? " Emily . " I like Inesilla ...
... eyes on every pleasant spoken elderly gentleman who addressed me . 99 Lady Mandeville . " Do you remember the effect produced by the black hollyhock , hanging gloomily over the sepulchral white marble vase ? " Emily . " I like Inesilla ...
Side 12
... eye that met his own so fearlessly . She saw her advan- tage , and seized it . At a glance , her nuns ceased their hymn , and a deep silence succeeded the voice of singing , and the clanging steps of armed men . " Not for pity , nor ...
... eye that met his own so fearlessly . She saw her advan- tage , and seized it . At a glance , her nuns ceased their hymn , and a deep silence succeeded the voice of singing , and the clanging steps of armed men . " Not for pity , nor ...
Side 13
... eyes filled with tears , as , at a turning in the road which hid the village , she threw herself back on the seat . How many years of youth and of happiness - how many ties of those small kindnesses , stronger than steel to bind- how ...
... eyes filled with tears , as , at a turning in the road which hid the village , she threw herself back on the seat . How many years of youth and of happiness - how many ties of those small kindnesses , stronger than steel to bind- how ...
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abbess Adelaide Alvarez amusement Beatrice Beatrice's beauty boughs bright Carbonari Cecil cheek child color companion cork tree dark daugh daughter dear Delawarr delight Don Henriquez Donna Edward Lorraine Emily Emily's English Etheringhame excitement exclaimed eyes face fairy fancy father favorite fear feeling felt Fitzroy Square flowers friends gallant band garden girl Giulio half hand happy head heard heart Higgs hope hour imagination Lady Mandeville Lady Mandeville's leave light look Lord Mandeville Lorraine's lover Margaret Lindsay ment mind Minora Miss Arundel Morland morning mother Naples nature never night once Pachetti passed passion pleasure pretty quiet replied returned rose round Roxelana seemed silence sleep solitude soon sorrow sound of music Spain Spenser spirit step stood sweet talk taste tears thing thought took trees turned voice window winter of discontent woman words young youth Zoridos
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Side 241 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Side 14 - 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 watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Side 27 - 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 25 - 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 59 - 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 30 - Well, well, as they said to the lover of the beautiful Indian queen, when he was turned into a dog, 'your misfortune is irreparable, so have patience.' In this world we must live for the present at least ; but I own I think it is made up of odds and ends." " ' Q,uand on n'a pas ce qu'on aime, II faut aimer ce qu'on a,' " said Edward ; " a doctrine of practical philosophy which I hope Miss Arundel has been practising.
Side 74 - Ah ! whence yon glare That fires the arch of heaven? that dark red smoke Blotting the silver moon ? The stars are quenched In darkness, and the pure and spangling snow Gleams faintly through the gloom that gathers round. Hark to that roar whose swift and...
Side 25 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye ; 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...
Side 143 - ... sad accident, Mr. Higgs and I learnt by heart, as a warning to our young friends. But, somehow, we never, though we took a world of pains, could remember more than the first two or three lines — for we are too old to begin our schooling over...
Side 205 - ... spirit languishes only for a nearer commune with the Creator, — blame me not too harshly for my mortal wishes, nor think that my faith was the less sincere because it was tinted in the most unchanging dyes of the human heart, and indissolubly woven with the memory of the dead ! Often from our weaknesses our strongest principles of conduct are born; and from the acorn which a breeze has wafted springs the oak which defies the storm.