Romance and RealityR. Bentley, 1852 - 495 sider |
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Side xviii
... marriage with George Maclean , Esq . , the go- vernor of Cape Coast Castle , with the prospect of speedily accompanying him to the fatal coast of Africa . Her best friends strenuously advised her against this step ; but her position in ...
... marriage with George Maclean , Esq . , the go- vernor of Cape Coast Castle , with the prospect of speedily accompanying him to the fatal coast of Africa . Her best friends strenuously advised her against this step ; but her position in ...
Side xxv
... marriage and a large family ; a dry - rubbed floor , only to have been stepped in the days of hoops and handings ; and some dozen of large chairs covered with elaborate tracery , each chair - cover the business of a life spent in satin ...
... marriage and a large family ; a dry - rubbed floor , only to have been stepped in the days of hoops and handings ; and some dozen of large chairs covered with elaborate tracery , each chair - cover the business of a life spent in satin ...
Side 1
... married suddenly and secretly the pretty and portionless Emily Delawarr , and wrote home to ask pardon and cash . The former was withheld on account of the latter , till his elder brother's unexceptionable marriage with Miss Belgrave ...
... married suddenly and secretly the pretty and portionless Emily Delawarr , and wrote home to ask pardon and cash . The former was withheld on account of the latter , till his elder brother's unexceptionable marriage with Miss Belgrave ...
Side 3
... married suddenly and secretly the pretty and portionless Emily Delawarr , and wrote home to ask pardon and cash . The former was withheld on account of the latter , till his elder brother's unexceptionable marriage with Miss Belgrave ...
... married suddenly and secretly the pretty and portionless Emily Delawarr , and wrote home to ask pardon and cash . The former was withheld on account of the latter , till his elder brother's unexceptionable marriage with Miss Belgrave ...
Side 4
... married who spent the mornings in the housekeeper's room , and the evenings at the tea - table , waiting for the guests who came not - who rose after the first glass of wine whose bills and calls were paid punctually , and whose dinners ...
... married who spent the mornings in the housekeeper's room , and the evenings at the tea - table , waiting for the guests who came not - who rose after the first glass of wine whose bills and calls were paid punctually , and whose dinners ...
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Adelaide Algernon amusement asked Beatrice Beatrice's beautiful bright called Carbonari carriage child colour companion crimson dark daughter dear Delawarr delight dinner Don Henriquez dress Edward Lorraine Emily Emily's England English enjoyment excited exclaimed exquisite eyes face fairy fancy Fanny Kemble father favourite fear feeling Fitzroy Square flowers gave gentleman girl grace hand happy heard heart Higgs hope imagination indolent Lady Alicia Lady Mandeville Lady Mandeville's laugh leave light look Lord Byron Lord Etheringhame Lord Mandeville Lorraine's lover Lucullus luxuriant marriage married mind Miss Arundel Morland morning mother Naples nature never night once passed passion pleasant pleasure poet poetry pretty quadrille replied ringlets romance rose round seat seemed Sillery smile soon sorrow Spenser spirit step sweet talk taste thing thought took Trevyllian truth turned uncon vanity voice window woman young youth Zoridos
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Side 274 - 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 239 - 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 276 - A countenance in which did meet 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 264 - 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 486 - 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 217 - 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 237 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green...
Side 61 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the banner-cry of hell!
Side 161 - 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 307 - 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.