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... better . Who amongst us , I wonder , is there who has not something about him which offers food for ridicule or contempt ? ' It was thus that Colonel Aylmer , in his morbid sensitiveness to his own personal dis- figurement , deprecated ...
... better . Who amongst us , I wonder , is there who has not something about him which offers food for ridicule or contempt ? ' It was thus that Colonel Aylmer , in his morbid sensitiveness to his own personal dis- figurement , deprecated ...
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... better when you know his name , ' said Susan . ' He's Mr. Raynham Fletcher , and the man whose care- lessness caused Colonel Aylmer's accident last year . ' ' No - really - is he ? That is B 3 Such Things are . 9 'I cannot say it was a ...
... better when you know his name , ' said Susan . ' He's Mr. Raynham Fletcher , and the man whose care- lessness caused Colonel Aylmer's accident last year . ' ' No - really - is he ? That is B 3 Such Things are . 9 'I cannot say it was a ...
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... better hasten from that spot , and shaking from their feet its coarse polluted dust , go to their home with thankfulness and joy ? Poor soul ! She could not reason on her feelings ! She only knew that in good truth she had no business ...
... better hasten from that spot , and shaking from their feet its coarse polluted dust , go to their home with thankfulness and joy ? Poor soul ! She could not reason on her feelings ! She only knew that in good truth she had no business ...
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... better ' glass ' for Susan , and the stupid chaff she heard was Greek to her . She had a constitutional dread of thunder and lightning , and her mind had for the last hour been nervously dwelling on the expected misery of sailing back ...
... better ' glass ' for Susan , and the stupid chaff she heard was Greek to her . She had a constitutional dread of thunder and lightning , and her mind had for the last hour been nervously dwelling on the expected misery of sailing back ...
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... better things in store for me ; it was an object with me then to stay near home ; and - but there is no use in boring you with either my motives or my misfortunes - I went to Scot- land , as you have heard , and there met with my evil ...
... better things in store for me ; it was an object with me then to stay near home ; and - but there is no use in boring you with either my motives or my misfortunes - I went to Scot- land , as you have heard , and there met with my evil ...
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Page 136 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her deathbed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the...
Page 166 - Of the hearts that daily break, Of the tears that hourly fall, Of the many, many troubles of life, That grieve this earthly ball...
Page 42 - Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...
Page 233 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 93 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 65 - Me and my friends here, this delightful night, That power itself has not one half the might Of gentleness. 'Tis want to all true wealth ; The uneasy madman's force, to the wise health ; Blind downward beating, to the eyes that see ; Noise to persuasion, doubt to certainty...
Page 28 - Nothing ! if they bite and kick? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
Page 198 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 93 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Page 78 - The clodded earth goes up in sweet-breathed flowers ; In music dies poor human speech, And into beauty blow those hearts of ours, When Love is born in each.