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... women were best away from that luxurious haunt of pleasure - seeking men . Was it in Annesley's eyes - it well might be , as , with a boldness she perceived not , he fixed them on poor Maggie's face - was it in Annesley's eyes she read ...
... women were best away from that luxurious haunt of pleasure - seeking men . Was it in Annesley's eyes - it well might be , as , with a boldness she perceived not , he fixed them on poor Maggie's face - was it in Annesley's eyes she read ...
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... women , and Susan retired humbled and abashed from their bold scrutiny ; for though she thought herself courageous , she was but a craven thing at heart , and shrank from public notice . Aylmer was by her side , and strove , in his calm ...
... women , and Susan retired humbled and abashed from their bold scrutiny ; for though she thought herself courageous , she was but a craven thing at heart , and shrank from public notice . Aylmer was by her side , and strove , in his calm ...
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... woman , whom Susan had heard spoken to as 6 Mrs. Floyd ; and listen to the thunder ! How close it is to us . ' And she spoke in a subdued and awe- struck whisper . The storm was indeed upon them , and raging with a mighty fury that ...
... woman , whom Susan had heard spoken to as 6 Mrs. Floyd ; and listen to the thunder ! How close it is to us . ' And she spoke in a subdued and awe- struck whisper . The storm was indeed upon them , and raging with a mighty fury that ...
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... women trembled and turned pale . The only other sounds within the room were the panic - stricken ejacu- lations ... woman's con- science that made her , more than all the rest of that weak group of females , shrink with such wild alarm ...
... women trembled and turned pale . The only other sounds within the room were the panic - stricken ejacu- lations ... woman's con- science that made her , more than all the rest of that weak group of females , shrink with such wild alarm ...
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... woman's abject fear , had felt a sympathetic rising in her throat , and some slight terror creeping over her ; when ... women took to screaming , -when to the relief , we must repeat , of all , the lightning flashes grew less fierce and ...
... woman's abject fear , had felt a sympathetic rising in her throat , and some slight terror creeping over her ; when ... women took to screaming , -when to the relief , we must repeat , of all , the lightning flashes grew less fierce and ...
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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.