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Página 75 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature, not too bright or good For human nature's daily food — For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smilw.
Página 75 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 64 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 12 - Tis one of those who needs must leave the path Of the world's business to go wild alone: His arms have a perpetual holiday ; The happy man will creep about the fields, Following his fancies by the hour, to bring Tears down his cheek, or solitary smiles Into his face, until the setting sun Write fool upon his forehead.
Página 218 - Hesketh," he answered, striving to compose himself, " there is nothing to alarm you — I have just come from Witham — Mr. Keith told me you were here.' ' " You are ill, Mr. Dalton — you look exceedingly ill, indeed, Sir. You should not have left Oxford to-day." ' " I am to leave Oxford to-morrow — I could not go without •saying farewell.
Página 218 - She, too, threw her eyes on the ground, and a deep glow rushed over her face ; but that was chased instantly by a fixed and solemn paleness, and her gaze once more met his. He advanced close to her, (for hitherto he had not changed his position,) and leaned for a moment over the broken wall. His hasty hand had discomposed some loose stones, and a fragment of considerable size plunged into the dark stream below. Ellen, thinking the whole was giving way, pulled him quickly backwards from the brinK....
Página 217 - I confess 1 was half frightened — How and whence have you come ?" Ere she had finished the sentence, however, her soft eye had instinctively retreated from the wild and distracted gaze of Reginald — she shrunk a step backward, and re-echoed her own question in a totally different tone — " Mr. Dalton, how are you here ? — whence have you come ? — You alarm me, Mr. Dalton — your looks alarm me. Speak, why do you look so ?" ' " Miss Hesketh," he answered, striving to compose himself, " there...
Página 218 - Mr Dalton, you have seen my uncle — you think he is very badly, I see you do — you think you shall never see him again, I know you think so !" " No, 'tis not so ; he has invited me to come back with you now ; and besides, Mr Keith will get better — I hope, I trust, I am sure he will.
Página 138 - It was now that a terrible conflict ensued — a conflict, the fury of which might have inspired lightness, vigour, and elasticity, even into the paragraphs of a Bentham, or the hexameters of a Southey — had either or both of these eminent persons been there to witness — better still had they been there to partake in, the genial phrenzy. It was now that
Página 125 - We heard the dashing of the oars, and a strong breeze lifted the mist like a curtain from before us, and there was a boat — a jolly ten-oar boat, sheering right through the waters towards us, perhaps about a couple of hundred yards off. A sailor on the bow hailed and cheered us ; but you may imagine how far gone we were when I tell you that I scarcely took notice it was in ENGLISH the man cried to us.