The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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Página 27
... attempted to obtain that iron rigidity of nerves necessary to restrain the ebullition of his feelings . The result of his efforts only ended in convulsed hysterical sobs , in sighs that were almost screams , and in ejaculations of ...
... attempted to obtain that iron rigidity of nerves necessary to restrain the ebullition of his feelings . The result of his efforts only ended in convulsed hysterical sobs , in sighs that were almost screams , and in ejaculations of ...
Página 28
... attempted a task which nothing but constant collision with a cold - blooded world can enable any warm heart to accomplish . Ashamed of the ebullition of feeling , he rushed from his solitary chambers , in the hope of forgetting his ...
... attempted a task which nothing but constant collision with a cold - blooded world can enable any warm heart to accomplish . Ashamed of the ebullition of feeling , he rushed from his solitary chambers , in the hope of forgetting his ...
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... attempted to rally the powers of his mind to the task before him . At this moment he observed a celebrated barrister just sitting down , after an able and ani- mated speech - a reply , in which he had called up all the pre- cedents ...
... attempted to rally the powers of his mind to the task before him . At this moment he observed a celebrated barrister just sitting down , after an able and ani- mated speech - a reply , in which he had called up all the pre- cedents ...
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... attempts to reduce her feelings to that state of tranquil lity which the ceremony of the coming day required . CHAPTER IV THE BRIDE . Mark but the frame and temper of their minds , How very much they differ . E'en this day , That fills ...
... attempts to reduce her feelings to that state of tranquil lity which the ceremony of the coming day required . CHAPTER IV THE BRIDE . Mark but the frame and temper of their minds , How very much they differ . E'en this day , That fills ...
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... attempted to form himself upon the model of Chesterfield , according to the letter , and not according to the spirit of his system ; and became a perfect specimen of an iced man .. His religion and hospitality were all mere ceremony ...
... attempted to form himself upon the model of Chesterfield , according to the letter , and not according to the spirit of his system ; and became a perfect specimen of an iced man .. His religion and hospitality were all mere ceremony ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration agitation Agnes agony Amelia anticipations appeared BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty Brighton Calisthenics carriage character circumstances Clifton contemplation conversation countenance cursed D'Oyley dear death delight determined devil door drawing-room dress excited exclaimed eyes fashion favour fear feelings felt female Fleming Fleming's Flounce Fred gave give Grosvenor Square hand happiness Hartley heard heart honour hope husband idea imagination Italy knew Lady Emily Lady Pomeroy LESLIE rushed Leslie's libertine lips lived look Lord Arlington lover Macbeth married ment mind Miss Wheeler mistress morning mother nature never night object once parties passed passion perhaps person pleasure Pomeroy's present pursuit quadrille racter recollection rendered scene seemed sentiments sigh silent Sir Robert Leslie smile society soul spite talent tears thing thought tion Tour trembling Trevor Trevor Hall turned uttered Villars virtue voice Walmer whole wife wish woman women wonder young ladies
Pasajes populares
Página 53 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 234 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Página 231 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 156 - I render you ; Only, this one : — Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see.
Página 72 - Which come, in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 223 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.
Página 212 - To charm me with thy softness : 'tis in vain : Thou can'st no more betray, nor I be ruin'd. The hours of folly, and of fond delight, Are wasted all, and fled ; those that remain Are doom'd to weeping, anguish, and repentance.
Página 226 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Página 84 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII She knew the Latin — that is, 'the Lord's prayer...
Página 241 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...