Ellen Glanville, Volume 1E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838 |
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... dinners at the manor - house - of the flirtations in assembly- rooms of rustic beauties and young squires , combined with a story of im- penetrable mystery , and an exquisite delineation of female sweetness in the person of Mabel ...
... dinners at the manor - house - of the flirtations in assembly- rooms of rustic beauties and young squires , combined with a story of im- penetrable mystery , and an exquisite delineation of female sweetness in the person of Mabel ...
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... dinners is expounded with such extent of knowledge , such comprehensiveness of view , such soundness of princi- ple , and delicacy of taste , that we shall best discharge our duty to our readers by making it one of the leading objects ...
... dinners is expounded with such extent of knowledge , such comprehensiveness of view , such soundness of princi- ple , and delicacy of taste , that we shall best discharge our duty to our readers by making it one of the leading objects ...
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... dinner - table , he was satisfied that Elizabeth must be the best judge , as to whether his intrinsic worth , and his ten thousand pounds a- year , would compensate for passing her life in his society , for treating him in public as a ...
... dinner - table , he was satisfied that Elizabeth must be the best judge , as to whether his intrinsic worth , and his ten thousand pounds a- year , would compensate for passing her life in his society , for treating him in public as a ...
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... dinner , and almost as constantly apolo- gised to himself and his guests for the empty chair , which he felt assured that nothing but Frederick's devotion to the good of his country , could prevent him from occupying . And Ellen ! -none ...
... dinner , and almost as constantly apolo- gised to himself and his guests for the empty chair , which he felt assured that nothing but Frederick's devotion to the good of his country , could prevent him from occupying . And Ellen ! -none ...
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... dinner , and looked at his sister , as if he expected her to second his invitation to Lord Raymond to join them ; but she was silent , and with only one serious parting look he too left her . CHAPTER V. Suspicion , entering with a ...
... dinner , and looked at his sister , as if he expected her to second his invitation to Lord Raymond to join them ; but she was silent , and with only one serious parting look he too left her . CHAPTER V. Suspicion , entering with a ...
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Page 176 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 160 - That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise.
Page 38 - Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too!
Page 122 - Tis yours, unmoved, to sever and to meet ; No pledge is sacred, and no home is sweet ! Who that would ask a heart to dulness wed, The waveless calm, the slumber of the dead ? No ; the wild bliss of Nature needs alloy, And Fear and Sorrow fan the fire of Joy...