VenetiaLongmans, Green, 1881 |
Common terms and phrases
abbey admire affection agitated amusement Apennines arrived beautiful believe Bishop Captain Cadurcis chamber CHAPTER charming Cherbury child companion consolation countenance daughter dear dear Doctor delightful Doctor Masham dreams emotion entered excited exclaimed fancy father feelings felt fond gazed hand happy heard heart hope hour inquired instant instantly Lady Monteagle ladyship length Lerici lips live looked Lord Cadurcis LORD MACAULAY Lord Monteagle lordship mamma Marmion Herbert Marringhurst marry mind misery Miss Herbert Miss Venetia Mistress Pauncefort morning Morpeth mother musing never night once opinions passed passion perhaps petty treason Plantagenet Plato present racter replied Lady Annabel replied Venetia Rovigo S. R. GARDINER Sarzana scarcely scene seat seemed sighed silent smile society sorrow Southport speak spirit Squire strange sure sweet tell thought tion tone voice walk Weymouth Whig white squall wish young
Popular passages
Page 421 - It soon becomes a very small part of that profound and complicated sentiment, which we call Love, which is rather the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature, intellectual, imaginative and sensitive...
Page 79 - Miles Hendon sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. After a pause, his brother said to the servants: "You have observed him. Do you know him?" They shook their heads; then the master said: "The servants know you not, sir. I fear there is some mistake. You have seen that my wife knew you not.
Page 311 - You bleed !' said Lord Scrope. CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Page 385 - ... arrayed in the most magnificent garbs and all the most sumptuous adornings which idleness and luxury have taught succeeding pride. Lovers then expressed the passion of their souls in the unaffected language of the heart, with the native plainness and sincerity in which they were conceived, and divested of all that artificial contexture which enervates what it labours to enforce. Imposture, deceit, and malice had not yet crept in, and imposed themselves unbribed upon mankind in the disguise of...
Page 313 - He had been guilty of the offence which, of all offences, is punished most severely ; he had been over-praised ; he had excited too warm an interest ; and the public, with its usual justice, chastised him for its own folly.
Page 384 - which our first parents called the age of gold ! Not because gold, so much adored in this iron age, was then easily purchased, but because those two fatal words mine and thine, were distinctions unknown to the people of those fortunate times ; for all things were in common in that holy age...
Page 93 - Fear God ; morning and night let nothing induce you ever to omit your prayers to Him ; you will find that praying will make you happy. Obey your superiors ; always treat your masters with respect. Ever speak the truth. So long as you adhere to this rule, you never can be involved in any serious misfortune.
Page 17 - No, I wasn't,' said Lord Cadurcis. ' Plantagenet ! ' said his mother again in a solemn tone, ' have I not always told you that you are never to contradict any one ? ' The little lord indulged in a suppressed growl. ' There was a little play last Christmas,
Page 16 - Cadurcis gave a grim smile ; seated himself at the very back of the deep chair and swung his feet, which no longer reached the ground, to and fro. ' I am sure that Lord Cadurcis always behaves well,
Page 479 - By AKHB Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. The Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson ; Essays contributed to Fraser's Magazine, &c.