The history of Henry Esmond, esq., written by himself. (By W.M. Thackeray). |
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... seemed as if his very facrifices and love for this lady and her family were to turn to evil and reproach : as if his presence amongst them was indeed a cause of grief , and the continuance of his life but woe and bitterness to theirs ...
... seemed as if his very facrifices and love for this lady and her family were to turn to evil and reproach : as if his presence amongst them was indeed a cause of grief , and the continuance of his life but woe and bitterness to theirs ...
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... likely what they knew of him , confoled themselves with dice , cards , and the bottle , and whiled away their own captivity in their own way . It seemed to Efmond as if he lived years . The in that prison and was changed and aged when c 2.
... likely what they knew of him , confoled themselves with dice , cards , and the bottle , and whiled away their own captivity in their own way . It seemed to Efmond as if he lived years . The in that prison and was changed and aged when c 2.
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... seemed deter- mined to execute her refolve of parting from him and difowning him . But he had news of her , fuch as it was , which Mr. Steele affiduously brought him from the Prince's and Princeffes ' Court , where our honest captain ...
... seemed deter- mined to execute her refolve of parting from him and difowning him . But he had news of her , fuch as it was , which Mr. Steele affiduously brought him from the Prince's and Princeffes ' Court , where our honest captain ...
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... seemed as if indig- nation moved her , even more than grief . ' Compenfation ! ' fhe went on paffionately , her cheeks and eyes kindling , ' what compenfation does your world give the widow for her husband , and the children for the ...
... seemed as if indig- nation moved her , even more than grief . ' Compenfation ! ' fhe went on paffionately , her cheeks and eyes kindling , ' what compenfation does your world give the widow for her husband , and the children for the ...
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... those feeble meshes of confpiracy in which his enemies tried to envelop him : it seemed as if their cowardly daggers broke upon the breast of his undaunted refolution . After King James's death , the Queen and her people at St. Germains.
... those feeble meshes of confpiracy in which his enemies tried to envelop him : it seemed as if their cowardly daggers broke upon the breast of his undaunted refolution . After King James's death , the Queen and her people at St. Germains.
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Page 82 - December — it is your birthday! But last year we did not drink it — no, no. My lord was cold, and my Harry was likely to die; and my brain was in a fever; and we had no wine. But now — now you are come again, bringing your sheaves with you, my dear.
Page 279 - In this accomplished lady, love is the constant effect, because it is never the design. Yet, though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education...
Page 129 - Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, had lie had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret or remorse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation of thought, a"s he performed the very meanest action of which...
Page 81 - And to-day, Henry, in the anthem, when they sang it, " When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream," I thought, yes, like them that dream — them that dream.
Page 131 - But yet those of the army, who knew him best and had suffered most from him, admired him most of all; and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.
Page 90 - ... shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground, was firm but flexible, and whose motion, whether rapid or slow, was always perfect grace — agile as a nymph, lofty as a queen — now melting, now imperious, now sarcastic, there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon.
Page 89 - She was a brown beauty; that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyelashes were dark, her hair curling with rich undulations and waving over her shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine, except her cheeks which were a bright red, and her lips which were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin, they said, were too large...