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Woodreve Manor: Or, Six Months in Town: a Tale of American Life Anna Hanson Dorsey Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Woodreve Manor: Or, Six Months in Town: a Tale of American Life Anna Hanson Dorsey Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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admiration amidst arms asked Aubry beautiful Bedford beneath Bessie bitter blossom bosom calm Carlo Dolci cheeks child Claude Lorraine cold Colonel Shirley countenance cried dear Jasper dream earth Edith Etha exclaimed expression eyes face fancy fashion father Fcap fear feeling fell felt flowers gentle give hair hand handsome happy Harry De Vere head heard heart heaven honour hope hour inquired kissed knew Lacy ladder of Jacob lady laughing leave lips look loughby madam mamma marble marriage Massoletti Miriam Miss Thorne Miss Willoughby morning mother Moysa Mumps Neiderwald never night noble pale Phiz poor proud replied scene silent smile soul spirit strange sunny river sweet tableaux vivants tears tell thee thing thou thought to-morrow tone Tresham Vere's voice Walter Shirley whispered WIDE WIDE WORLD wild wish woman wonder Woodreve Ya-gee-wah young
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Página 131 - ... but hover around, Like the patriarch's bird, and no resting is found; Where Hope when she paints her gay...
Página 3 - 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 45 - And in the lustre of her youth, she gave Her hand, with her heart in it, to Francesco. Great was the joy ; but at the bridal feast, When all sat down, the bride was wanting there. Nor was she to be found. Her father cried, ' 'Tis but to make a trial of our love ! ' And filled his glass to all ; but his hand shook, And soon from guest to guest the panic spread.
Página 95 - Christians and proud! O poor and wretched ones! That, feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness : know ye not That we are worms, yet made at last to form The winged insect,2 imp'd with angel plumes, That to heaven's justice unobstructed soars?
Página 114 - Putting on The very pomp of Lucifer, it turns The heart to ashes, and with not a spring Left in the bosom for the spirit's lip, We look upon our splendor and forget The thirst of which we perish ! Yet hath life Many a falser idol.
Página 114 - How like a mounting devil in the heart Rules the unreined ambition ! Let it once But play the monarch, and its haughty brow Glows with a beauty that bewilders thought And unthrones peace forever. Putting on The very pomp of Lucifer, it turns The heart to ashes, and with not a spring Left in the bosom for the spirit's lip, We look upon our splendor and forget The thirst of which we perish.
Página 171 - A volume of excitement for the fireside : in it are narrations of perilous incidents in naval life — by famine, fire, and wreck, as well as in the busy stir of war : the calm decision of Nelson at the Nile; the career of the soldier in tented field and siege ; an instance of the firm and steady purpose of Wellington at Vittoria, as well as his kindly care for others, by an eye-witness. Here, also, are the adventures of hardy hunters in the Indian wilds, and their many hair-breadth escapes when...
Página 46 - Oh ! o'er the eye death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light ! Sinks those blue orbs in that long last eclipse, But spares, as yet, the charm around her lips...
Página 175 - O'Toole's Courtship, to Maynooth. 31. BUNDLE OF CROWQUILLS, dropped by Alfred Crowquill in his eccentric flights over the Fields of Literature. Illustrated . A. Crowquill. 32. CHRISTMAS DAY, AND How IT WAS SPENT by FOUR PERSONS in the House of Fograss, Fograss, Mowton and Snorton, Bankers. With Four Engravings by Phiz . , . Le Ros. " A book unequalled since Dickens'
Página 174 - PEEL, his Life, ; portrait by W. Harvey. " Will be read with interest by all ; it possesses the charm of novelty." 13. FEANKLIN AND THE ARCTIC REGIONS . PL Simmons. " An account of the voyages to discover the North "West Passage.