De Vere; Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1831 - English fiction |
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... seemed a feast of love . " At these words these two amiable women embraced , nor did the difference of their ages seem to make any difference in the affection with which they regarded each other , or in the feeling which the remembrance ...
... seemed a feast of love . " At these words these two amiable women embraced , nor did the difference of their ages seem to make any difference in the affection with which they regarded each other , or in the feeling which the remembrance ...
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... with which , when he closed his speech , he seemed to electrify the House : - " Laudo manentem ; si celeres quatit Pennas , resigno que dedit , et mea Virtute me involvo , probamque Pauperiem sine dote quæro . 10 DE VERE .
... with which , when he closed his speech , he seemed to electrify the House : - " Laudo manentem ; si celeres quatit Pennas , resigno que dedit , et mea Virtute me involvo , probamque Pauperiem sine dote quæro . 10 DE VERE .
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... seemed , insensibly to others , but obviously to himself , to be slipping from under him . With all his talents , he was not a bold politician , and he felt it was absolutely neces- sary either to create jealousies in the opposite party ...
... seemed , insensibly to others , but obviously to himself , to be slipping from under him . With all his talents , he was not a bold politician , and he felt it was absolutely neces- sary either to create jealousies in the opposite party ...
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... seemed to give ; and , in the simplicity of his heart , he complimented the premier on the purity of his patriotism , which could thus yield his power to a rival , for the sake of the public weal . 66 " Stop , " said Lord Oldcastle ...
... seemed to give ; and , in the simplicity of his heart , he complimented the premier on the purity of his patriotism , which could thus yield his power to a rival , for the sake of the public weal . 66 " Stop , " said Lord Oldcastle ...
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... seemed to proceed from a breaking heart , he burst from the house to seek his own home . There , after ordering the doors to be closed against all visiters , he buried himself in his chamber . The whole passed so quickly that this ...
... seemed to proceed from a breaking heart , he burst from the house to seek his own home . There , after ordering the doors to be closed against all visiters , he buried himself in his chamber . The whole passed so quickly that this ...
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admiration affected ambition answered appear asked De Vere aunt Barèges Beaufort beautiful better called Castle Mowbray character charming Clayton consequence countenance court cousin dear Constance deed delightful disappointed earl Earl of Cleveland estates excited exclaimed expected father favour fear feel felt Flowerdale fortune gave gentleman give happy Harclai heart heir honour hope interest John Cleveland knew Lady Clanellan Lady Constance Lady Eleanor least look Lord Clanellan Lord Cleveland Lord Mowbray Lord Oldcastle manner marquis means mind minister misanthropy Mortimer mother nature ness never noble observed De Vere opinion party passed passion perhaps person pleased pleasure political pride Pyrenees replied De Vere retire returned Rivers scene seemed sentiment Silverlock smile spirit Staroste suppose surprise Talbois talked tell thing thought tion told truth Vere's Wentworth whole Wilmot wish young Zerlina
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Page 124 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 124 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 159 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 108 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 63 - Consistent in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last ; As weak, as earnest ; and as gravely out, As sober Lanesborow dancing in the gout.
Page 55 - Then why should we quarrel for riches, Or any such glittering toys ? A light heart and thin pair of breeches Will go through the world, my brave boys!
Page 135 - And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Page 135 - Seeking the food he eats, And pleased with what he gets, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy 15 But winter and rough weather.
Page 8 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears : I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Page 67 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...