Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 10William Harrison Ainsworth Chapman and Hall, 1846 - English literature |
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Page 86
... Amabel flew to her father's arms . The grocer could not repress his tears ; but they were tears of joy , and that night's happiness made him ample amends for all the anxiety he had recently undergone . " Well , Stephen , my dear child ...
... Amabel flew to her father's arms . The grocer could not repress his tears ; but they were tears of joy , and that night's happiness made him ample amends for all the anxiety he had recently undergone . " Well , Stephen , my dear child ...
Page 87
... Amabel and Leonard carefully , and seemed annoyed that the former rather shunned than favoured the regards of the apprentice . Leonard , too , looked disconcerted ; and though he was in posses- sion of his mistress's promise , he did ...
... Amabel and Leonard carefully , and seemed annoyed that the former rather shunned than favoured the regards of the apprentice . Leonard , too , looked disconcerted ; and though he was in posses- sion of his mistress's promise , he did ...
Page 88
... Amabel . " I am resolved , " interrupted Bloundel , peremptorily . " Who- ever leaves the house , -if but for a moment , -never returns . " " And when do you close it , father ? " asked Amabel . " A week hence , ” replied the grocer ...
... Amabel . " I am resolved , " interrupted Bloundel , peremptorily . " Who- ever leaves the house , -if but for a moment , -never returns . " " And when do you close it , father ? " asked Amabel . " A week hence , ” replied the grocer ...
Page 89
... Amabel had neither seen nor heard from Rochester . But , if the truth must be told , he was never out of her mind , and she found , to her cost , that the heart will not be controlled . Convinced of her noble lover's perfidy , and aware ...
... Amabel had neither seen nor heard from Rochester . But , if the truth must be told , he was never out of her mind , and she found , to her cost , that the heart will not be controlled . Convinced of her noble lover's perfidy , and aware ...
Page 90
... Amabel ? Has all our care been thrown away ? " " I do not distrust her , " returned Mrs. Bloundel ; " but consider whom she has to deal with . She is beset by the handsomest and most fascinating man of the day - by one understood to be ...
... Amabel ? Has all our care been thrown away ? " " I do not distrust her , " returned Mrs. Bloundel ; " but consider whom she has to deal with . She is beset by the handsomest and most fascinating man of the day - by one understood to be ...
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Page 132 - ... but bend your course directly in the middle line, that the whole body of the church may appear to be yours ; where, in view of all, you may publish your suit in what manner you affect most, either with the slide of your cloak from the one shoulder...
Page 131 - The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed of walking tongues and feet: it is a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and a-foot.
Page 250 - ... all they together went to Sea, each one in a riddle or cive, and went into the same very substantially, with flaggons of wine, making merry and drinking by the way in the same riddles or cives...
Page 132 - But one note by the way do I especially woo you to, the neglect of which makes many of our gallants cheap and ordinary, that by no means you be seen above four turns ; but in the fifth make yourself away, either in some of the semsters...
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Page 419 - He who yon lordly feast enjoyeth, He who doth rest on his couch of down, He it was, who threw the forsaken Under the feet of the trampling town: Liar — betrayer — false as cruel, — What is the doom for his dastard sin ? His peers, they scorn ? — high dames, they shun him ? — Unbar yon palace, and gaze within.
Page 385 - This spirit, according to the depositions, was seen by two or three persons. Amylyon deposed that " he was at Saunders's where Sir Robert Cromer held up a stone, but he could not perceive anything in it ; but that George Dowsing caused to rise in a glass a little thing of the length of an inch or thereabout, but whether it was a spirit or a shadow he cannot tell, but the said George said it was a spirit.
Page 114 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Page 417 - All recklesse of the pain : Quoth hee, But heaven be now my speede, Or else I shall be slaine.
Page 168 - Women are to be found, we are informed by all travellers in Italy, according to all appearances, perfect specimens of uxorial and maternal excellence, and yet designated by public rumour as the heroines of many a gallant intrigue. An obvious contradiction which they fain would ascribe to Italian artfulness and duplicity, and which they contrast with the candour and uprightness of an Englishwoman's character, which, never belying itself even in the last stage of abandonment, never adds hypocrisy to...