Grace Elliot, Or, To Seem and to be: A TaleT. Nelson, 1855 |
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Grace Elliot, Or to Seem and to Be: A Tale (1855) Maria Jane McIntosh Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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admiration already arms asked assured Aunt Elliot Aunt Nancy beautiful bosom Bourdier brow Captain Stuart carriage cheek child clasped colour cousin cravat dear Grace desire door earnest earthly écarté emotion entered exclaimed expression eyes face fair brow fair lady Falconer Falconer's father fear feelings felt gentle Georgia give glance Grace Elliot hand happiness heard heart heaven Henry Elliot hope hour influence Isabel and Grace kissed ladies leave letter light lips looked Marquis de Villeneuve Miss Douglass Miss Elliot Monsieur de Villeneuve morning mother Nanine never pale parlour passed paused pleasure poor pray present promise received replied rose Saratoga scarcely seemed silence smile soon sorrow soul speak spirit stood Stuart rose sympathy tears tell tender thing thought thousand dollars tone turned uncle voice Walter Stuart week whispered word young
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Página 46 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 166 - Be hush'd, my dark spirit ! for wisdom condemns When the faint and the feeble deplore; Be strong as the rock of the ocean that stems A thousand wild waves on the shore ! Through the perils of chance, and the scowl of disdain, May thy front be unalter'd, thy courage elate ! Yea ! even the name I have worshipp'd in vain Shall awake not a sigh of remembrance again : To bear is to conquer our fate.
Página 91 - Thus Love repays to Hope what Hope first gave to Love Yet haply there will come a weary day, When overtasked at length Both Love and Hope beneath the load give way. Then with a statue's smile, a statue's strength, Stands the mute sister, Patience, nothing loth, And both supporting does the work of both.
Página 256 - THERE is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground. The storm that wrecks the winter sky No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose.
Página 221 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Página 22 - Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!
Página 34 - ... pure, I ween, As ever was a maiden's heart At joyous seventeen. She dwells among us like a star, That from its bower of bliss Looks down, yet gathers not a stain From aught it sees in this. I do not mean that flattery Has never...
Página 221 - With thee, my bark, I'll swiftly go Athwart the foaming brine ; Nor care what land thou bear'st me to, So not again to mine. Welcome, welcome, ye dark blue waves ! And when you fail my sight, Welcome, ye deserts, and ye caves ! My native land— Good Night !
Página 224 - Isabel ! you are kind now, but what will you say, when I tell you that I have...
Página 233 - That, pledged on earth and seal'd above, Grows in the world's approving eyes, In friendship's smile and home's caress, Collecting all the heart's sweet ties Into one knot of happiness ! No, HINDA, no — thy fatal flame Is nursed in silence, sorrow, shame.