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This new star in the Florentine world was an English girl ; her father and mother ,
Colonel and Mrs . Arbuthnot , were allied to all the first families in England , the
land of real aristocracy ; and never did there exist two people more thoroughly ...
This new star in the Florentine world was an English girl ; her father and mother ,
Colonel and Mrs . Arbuthnot , were allied to all the first families in England , the
land of real aristocracy ; and never did there exist two people more thoroughly ...
Page 170
The little girl uttered some sounds , unintelligible to the party outside ,
accompanied by numerous signs and gesticulations , upon which the young man
invited them round to a back door , and led them into a small kitchen , with a
miserable bed ...
The little girl uttered some sounds , unintelligible to the party outside ,
accompanied by numerous signs and gesticulations , upon which the young man
invited them round to a back door , and led them into a small kitchen , with a
miserable bed ...
Page 274
The little girl who followed her began to amuse herself by picking up shells , and
the woman advanced towards the cross . She turned to the sea and looked long
and anxiously on its calm expanse , shading her eyes with her band . At length ...
The little girl who followed her began to amuse herself by picking up shells , and
the woman advanced towards the cross . She turned to the sea and looked long
and anxiously on its calm expanse , shading her eyes with her band . At length ...
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When the woman left the side of the carriage , an elderly lady , apparently the
young girl ' s mother , spoke a few words to her , probably relative to the
nonsensical farrago they had been hearing , and the poor girl sighed deeply as
she sank ...
When the woman left the side of the carriage , an elderly lady , apparently the
young girl ' s mother , spoke a few words to her , probably relative to the
nonsensical farrago they had been hearing , and the poor girl sighed deeply as
she sank ...
Page 117
The girls were handsome and fascinating , without one spark of vanity ; their
feelings were noble and generous in the extreme ... At the same time , no girl ,
though she might infinitely eclipse them in outward seeming , and even in
brilliancy of ...
The girls were handsome and fascinating , without one spark of vanity ; their
feelings were noble and generous in the extreme ... At the same time , no girl ,
though she might infinitely eclipse them in outward seeming , and even in
brilliancy of ...
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Page 280 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flattered, followed, sought and sued ; This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!
Page 259 - They mourn, but smile at length ; and, smiling, mourn : The tree will wither long before it fall ; The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn ; The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall In massy hoariness; the...
Page 184 - Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 256 - The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 149 - Time, in his own grey style, All that thou art. Art thou not void of guile, A lovely soul formed to be blest and bless ? A well of sealed and secret happiness, Whose waters like blithe light and music are, Vanquishing dissonance and gloom ? A Star Which moves not in the moving Heavens, alone...
Page 21 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 93 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 228 - THERE is an hour of peaceful rest, To mourning wanderers given; There is a joy for souls distressed; A balm for every wounded breast: 'T is found above — in heaven. 2 There is a home for weary souls, By sin and sorrow driven, — • When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals, Where storms arise, and ocean rolls, And all is drear— but heaven.
Page 184 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 202 - I know whence the shadow comes o'er you now Ye have strewn the dust on the sunny brow ! Ye have given the lovely to earth's embrace, She hath taken the fairest of beauty's race, With their laughing eyes and their...