Sailors and Saints: Or, Matrimonial Manoeuvres, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1829 |
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... heart , was crabbed , and whose manner and conversation , harsh and dictatorial , she was agreeably surprised by the unaffected manners , easy affability , and prepos- sessing appearance of the young officer ; and this surprise might ...
... heart , was crabbed , and whose manner and conversation , harsh and dictatorial , she was agreeably surprised by the unaffected manners , easy affability , and prepos- sessing appearance of the young officer ; and this surprise might ...
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... heart , a methodical man . - Pity that shot didn't rake my sister ! -Had she been here , I'd a ' had her there , eh ? -But go on with your system . -Hate all interruption- that's my maxim . " With difficulty Burton could refrain from ...
... heart , a methodical man . - Pity that shot didn't rake my sister ! -Had she been here , I'd a ' had her there , eh ? -But go on with your system . -Hate all interruption- that's my maxim . " With difficulty Burton could refrain from ...
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... heart . It is not then to be wondered at , that during those few moments of twilight , which may be denomi- nated the last and loveliest of the glorious career of day , all eyes were attentively fixed on the fast - fading beauty of the ...
... heart . It is not then to be wondered at , that during those few moments of twilight , which may be denomi- nated the last and loveliest of the glorious career of day , all eyes were attentively fixed on the fast - fading beauty of the ...
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... line in that unusually rigid face was , for a moment , relaxed ; and , from the whole external , it would seem his heart had been startled by strange and unwelcome ot till after a momentary wly unbuttoned 184 WEATHERING THE WILEY .
... line in that unusually rigid face was , for a moment , relaxed ; and , from the whole external , it would seem his heart had been startled by strange and unwelcome ot till after a momentary wly unbuttoned 184 WEATHERING THE WILEY .
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... the young lieutenant , in a way which Burton thought happily equivocal , if not posi- tively allusive to an union which already was beginning to be near his heart- " whether the F girl , on a pinch , would not make a 190 PHILANDERING .
... the young lieutenant , in a way which Burton thought happily equivocal , if not posi- tively allusive to an union which already was beginning to be near his heart- " whether the F girl , on a pinch , would not make a 190 PHILANDERING .
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Page 314 - God in Externals could not place Content. Fortune her gifts may variously dispose, And these be happy call'd, unhappy those ; But...
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Page 258 - His thoughts had wholly been confin'd to form and cultivate her mind. He hardly knew, till he was told, whether the nymph were young or old; had met her in a public place, •without distinguishing her face: much less could his declining age Vanessa's...
Page 3 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts ; and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
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Page 96 - Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Page 28 - Rodmond a rueful tale of wonders read, Of dragons roaring on the enchanted coast, The hideous goblin, and the yelling ghost ; But with Arion, from the sultry heat Of noon, Palemon, sought a cool retreat And lo ! the shore with mournful prospects...
Page 154 - All was prepared — the fire, the sword, the men To wield them in their terrible array. The army, like a lion from his den, March'd forth with nerve and sinews bent to slay, — A human Hydra, issuing from its fen To breathe destruction on its winding way.
Page 20 - Than many persons more advanced in life; And if we now and then a sigh must heave At quitting even those we quit in strife...