Romance and Reality, Bind 2J. J. Harper, 1832 |
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Side 4
... ' I must own I prefer a gayer and lighter species of reading . Of pictures I like portraits - of books I like novels - novels of modern life , times , and manners : even if very bad , they amuse . I am not 4 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
... ' I must own I prefer a gayer and lighter species of reading . Of pictures I like portraits - of books I like novels - novels of modern life , times , and manners : even if very bad , they amuse . I am not 4 ROMANCE AND REALITY .
Side 5
... picture frame . Moreover , I could not sleep till I had finished it . There is the very book . " Edward Lorraine.- " My old favorite Inesilla . How well I remember reading it ! It was in the summer , as I walked to and fro in an avenue ...
... picture frame . Moreover , I could not sleep till I had finished it . There is the very book . " Edward Lorraine.- " My old favorite Inesilla . How well I remember reading it ! It was in the summer , as I walked to and fro in an avenue ...
Side 10
... pictures covered up from want of sufficient material , the face of her uncle's portrait was still visible : she thought it looked upon her sadly and kindly , forgetting that such was its habitual expression . A move- ment in the passage ...
... pictures covered up from want of sufficient material , the face of her uncle's portrait was still visible : she thought it looked upon her sadly and kindly , forgetting that such was its habitual expression . A move- ment in the passage ...
Side 15
... picture ; indulge in no vagrant creations of your own . What Pope said of fate is still truer of fashion- ' Whatever is , is right . " " " But suppose any prevailing fashion is to me peculiarly unbecoming ? " " It will be less ...
... picture ; indulge in no vagrant creations of your own . What Pope said of fate is still truer of fashion- ' Whatever is , is right . " " " But suppose any prevailing fashion is to me peculiarly unbecoming ? " " It will be less ...
Side 24
... picture , and must sleep for a complexion . " " And you , Mrs. Lorraine ? " " Oh , I have five other parties to go to . " " Well , " said Mrs. Trefusis - a little vexed that hers was breaking up so soon ; and Philosophy , Illnature ...
... picture , and must sleep for a complexion . " " And you , Mrs. Lorraine ? " " Oh , I have five other parties to go to . " " Well , " said Mrs. Trefusis - a little vexed that hers was breaking up so soon ; and Philosophy , Illnature ...
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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.