| James Grant - 1874 - 302 páginas
...he had placed Fanny in a false position, and blaming himself therefor, repeated the lines of Scott, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !' ' Thank heaven, however, it was no worse,' he added. 'I shall avoid the sweet temptation of her... | |
| Sophia Matilda Holworthy - 1876 - 200 páginas
...and then it follows as the night the day, you cannot well be false to any man." — SHAKESPEARE. " Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." — SCOTT. HE Rangemoor party were all seated in the garden, having five-o'clock tea, according to... | |
| C L J. S - 1876 - 282 páginas
... INTRICATE PATHS. CLJS 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." LONDON: SAMUEL TINSLEY, 10, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND. 1876. (All Rights Reserved.) A. INTRICATE PATHS.... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1877 - 474 páginas
...with no arriere pens/e. "She is a dear little girl, our Kate." CHAPTER VII. THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. SCOTT. [HE drive home through the twilight was declared by Honora and Gertrude to be even more delightful... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...Milton. An honest man may take a knave's advice, But idiots only may be cozen'd twice. — Drydrn. ceives us, Where the worn spirit never gains its goal : Where ha ! — Scott. 769. DECEPTION : common. I LIVE among the cold, the false, And I must seem like them ;... | |
| A. M. Trotter - 1878 - 160 páginas
...receiving his letter, I resolved to visit him. Having mislaid hia book, he could not repeat his lesson. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! 15. A word used to modify the meaning of a Verb or Adjective is called an. Adverb; as, He reads well.... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1878 - 388 páginas
...natu). — fraus innexa elicnti, "has wove the web of deceit against a client." Compare Scott — " Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." nee partent posuere suis, "nor laid aside a portion of their wealth for their own [kith and kin] "... | |
| mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1879 - 318 páginas
...in love to bear the jest with equanimity. 203 CHAPTER VIII. " SHE IS NOTHING BUT AN ADVENTURESS." " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." CAPTAIN Conyngham lay full length on ^-^ the grass, with his straw hat cast carelessly aside. The trees... | |
| Mrs. H. B. Paull - 1879 - 154 páginas
...difficulty had arisen to make Julia conscious of the truth of those lines of Sir Walter Scott — " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " Too truly she felt as if entangled in a net from which she could not get free. " Miss Julia, I... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 páginas
...of that, I trow. Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun ; Must separate Constance from the nun — Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive 1 A Palmer too I — no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye : I might have known there was but... | |
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