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Page 41
... lady might have been found to fit minutely . He wore a suit of rusty black , that , stout as he was , would have suited a giant of twice his size . He was always exces- sively hot ; and , therefore , in order to afford scope for ...
... lady might have been found to fit minutely . He wore a suit of rusty black , that , stout as he was , would have suited a giant of twice his size . He was always exces- sively hot ; and , therefore , in order to afford scope for ...
Page 44
... lady readers , that I should give materials for forming some idea of his personal appearance . Now styles of description vary : we have , at the one extreme , that ornate and poetical verbosity which , by its eloquence , wins sympathy ...
... lady readers , that I should give materials for forming some idea of his personal appearance . Now styles of description vary : we have , at the one extreme , that ornate and poetical verbosity which , by its eloquence , wins sympathy ...
Page 86
... lady ( Lady Emily Somerville ) ; - she whose praise was on every lip , and whose image dwelt in every heart . The bride he would have sought from Fortune , in her blandest mood , for his son , -the lovely , the noble , the high - minded ...
... lady ( Lady Emily Somerville ) ; - she whose praise was on every lip , and whose image dwelt in every heart . The bride he would have sought from Fortune , in her blandest mood , for his son , -the lovely , the noble , the high - minded ...
Page 87
... , instead of shrinking with instinctive dread at your very name , I should have mingled it in my hourly prayers , and blessed that fate which made me Lady Ashmore's child indeed , The Penalty of Youthful Transgressions . 87.
... , instead of shrinking with instinctive dread at your very name , I should have mingled it in my hourly prayers , and blessed that fate which made me Lady Ashmore's child indeed , The Penalty of Youthful Transgressions . 87.
Page 88
... Lady Ashmore , you will for ever claim the prayers , the wishes , of the miserable heart - broken Emily . Oh ! that we may both soon rejoin your sainted mother above , and leave your guilty father , yet a little longer , in the ...
... Lady Ashmore , you will for ever claim the prayers , the wishes , of the miserable heart - broken Emily . Oh ! that we may both soon rejoin your sainted mother above , and leave your guilty father , yet a little longer , in the ...
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Page 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.