Trials, by the author of 'The favourite of nature'.1824 |
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... felt herself obliged to ascertain that there was no chance of accidentally encountering him while the stream of her happiness was at its height . If the project was , in the first days of spring , to make the round of the lawns and ...
... felt herself obliged to ascertain that there was no chance of accidentally encountering him while the stream of her happiness was at its height . If the project was , in the first days of spring , to make the round of the lawns and ...
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... felt an incapability of pleasing him , which insensibly palsied every effort she made ; but there were persons who could find a delight in hearing her , even at this early age , warble in her own sweet and natu- ral manner , such songs ...
... felt an incapability of pleasing him , which insensibly palsied every effort she made ; but there were persons who could find a delight in hearing her , even at this early age , warble in her own sweet and natu- ral manner , such songs ...
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... felt sure that a woman with such a pair of eyes as Cathe- rine possessed , might have done a great deal for herself , if she had been one degree beyond a simpleton , which , in his extreme dissatisfaction with her , he had sometimes ...
... felt sure that a woman with such a pair of eyes as Cathe- rine possessed , might have done a great deal for herself , if she had been one degree beyond a simpleton , which , in his extreme dissatisfaction with her , he had sometimes ...
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... Catherine conceived might not be the worse in Augusta's estimation for being told in most intolerably bad spelling ; a chari- table opinion that prevented her expres- sing the astonishment she really felt at perusing this document 36.
... Catherine conceived might not be the worse in Augusta's estimation for being told in most intolerably bad spelling ; a chari- table opinion that prevented her expres- sing the astonishment she really felt at perusing this document 36.
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Mary Ann Kelty. sing the astonishment she really felt at perusing this document of his tenderness . The other inamorato of whom Augusta had spoken , though she admitted him to be by far the handsomer man , did not appear to have inspired ...
Mary Ann Kelty. sing the astonishment she really felt at perusing this document of his tenderness . The other inamorato of whom Augusta had spoken , though she admitted him to be by far the handsomer man , did not appear to have inspired ...
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Popular passages
Page 65 - But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 237 - For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt ; I am black ; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 23 - His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 107 - And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information amongst the rest, that -'Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proofs of Holy Writ.
Page 82 - But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.
Page 130 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 266 - Lord was not in the wind of human passion — not in the earthquake — not in the fire — but in the still small voice which comes when all these have passed away.
Page 237 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 245 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul...
Page 175 - O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.