London Society, Volume 10; Volume 12James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1867 - English literature |
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... knew most about his father's mis- hap were quite deceived . On the road home - at the bacchanalian dinner at Lane's hotel - in the wild orgies of Cremorne , prolonged until the insulted sunlight drove the pallid revellers home , Halse ...
... knew most about his father's mis- hap were quite deceived . On the road home - at the bacchanalian dinner at Lane's hotel - in the wild orgies of Cremorne , prolonged until the insulted sunlight drove the pallid revellers home , Halse ...
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... knew , was a great plateau of Tarasp are richer than botanist , and the fields on the treasures . any other place I know in floral after our early dinner , and started We assembled at three o'clock , the river , and up the heights oppo ...
... knew , was a great plateau of Tarasp are richer than botanist , and the fields on the treasures . any other place I know in floral after our early dinner , and started We assembled at three o'clock , the river , and up the heights oppo ...
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... knew all about us , whose brother we had parted with but a short time before in Rome , and whose parents we had fallen in with during the previous summer ! Our new acquaintance had come , he told us , for the cure , ' sent by his ...
... knew all about us , whose brother we had parted with but a short time before in Rome , and whose parents we had fallen in with during the previous summer ! Our new acquaintance had come , he told us , for the cure , ' sent by his ...
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... knew her . She was a member of that drawing - class which I esta- blished in the northern city . don't know the city ? A quaint old monkish place to dream away a life in ; a city with a cathedral and castle which the sun lights up in a ...
... knew her . She was a member of that drawing - class which I esta- blished in the northern city . don't know the city ? A quaint old monkish place to dream away a life in ; a city with a cathedral and castle which the sun lights up in a ...
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... knew the story of my life . Edith Viner had really loved the poor painter . ( How all the sunshine of the northern city came back to me in a moment ! ) But she had been engaged to Capt . Howard before she saw me - engaged almost from ...
... knew the story of my life . Edith Viner had really loved the poor painter . ( How all the sunshine of the northern city came back to me in a moment ! ) But she had been engaged to Capt . Howard before she saw me - engaged almost from ...
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Page 438 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me...
Page 250 - I am certain there are few in this kingdom who set a higher value on your public services than myself — and I have the honour to subscribe" — Then, on turning over the leaf, was to be found — " Myself, " Your most obedient faithful servant,
Page 229 - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth ; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Page 264 - A worse school for a young girl, or one more detrimental to all natural feelings and affections, cannot well be imagined than the position of a Queen at eighteen, without experience and without a husband to guide and support her.
Page 234 - For breakfast, toast and rich soup, made on a slow fire ; a walk before breakfast, and a good deal after it ; a glass of wine in the forenoon from time to time...
Page 456 - I have forgot to tell you of a wedding in our family ; my brother's eldest daughter is to be married to-morrow to Lord Albemarle's third brother, a canon of Windsor. We are very happy with the match.
Page 229 - Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him : for the Lord hath created him.
Page 74 - As it fell out upon a day, Rich Dives sickened and died, There came two serpents out of hell, His soul therein to guide. " Rise up, rise up, brother Dives, And go with us to see, A dismal place prepared in hell, From which thou canst not flee.
Page 317 - The bishop, in reply, with great wit and calmness, exposed this rude attack, concluding thus: "Since the noble lord hath discovered in our manners such a similitude, I am well content to be compared to the prophet Balaam ; but, my lords, I am at a loss how to make out the other part of the parallel: I am sure that I have been reproved by nobody but his lordship.
Page 264 - think without indignation against herself of her wish to keep the Prince waiting for probably three or four years, at the risk of ruining all his prospects for life, until she might feel inclined to marry ! And the Prince has since told her that he came over in 1839 with the intention of telling her that, if she could not then make up her mind, she must understand that he could not now wait for a decision, as he had done at a former period, when this marriage was first talked about.