Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... certainly say for my lady that she seemed so hearty like in praying as his honour . " Still they always ended with saying that she was " an excellent good lady , " an eulogium which , as far as human infirmity will permit its ...
... certainly say for my lady that she seemed so hearty like in praying as his honour . " Still they always ended with saying that she was " an excellent good lady , " an eulogium which , as far as human infirmity will permit its ...
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... certainly he intend- ed to follow her affectionate monitions . The conse- quence of all this procrastination was , that he found himself , while he was thinking about it , growing too old for this lady , and too prudent for that , with ...
... certainly he intend- ed to follow her affectionate monitions . The conse- quence of all this procrastination was , that he found himself , while he was thinking about it , growing too old for this lady , and too prudent for that , with ...
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... certainly is ; for no perfectly genuine emotion can be concealed or misinterpreted . St. Au- byn clearly understood what was passing in the heart of Catherine , and evinced , by the delicacy of his at- tention and discourse , how much ...
... certainly is ; for no perfectly genuine emotion can be concealed or misinterpreted . St. Au- byn clearly understood what was passing in the heart of Catherine , and evinced , by the delicacy of his at- tention and discourse , how much ...
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... Certainly , as you say , it will be no difficult task to renounce a person of this inconstant temper ; and the spirit with which you speak of his conduct , testifies that you have al- ready advanced a great way towards estimating him as ...
... Certainly , as you say , it will be no difficult task to renounce a person of this inconstant temper ; and the spirit with which you speak of his conduct , testifies that you have al- ready advanced a great way towards estimating him as ...
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... certainly might be forgiven for disapproving . But she had always considered Catherine only in one point of view ; and that was with reference to herself , and the great probability , if she remained un- married , of her being ...
... certainly might be forgiven for disapproving . But she had always considered Catherine only in one point of view ; and that was with reference to herself , and the great probability , if she remained un- married , of her being ...
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Page 31 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight...
Page 50 - 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 39 - But I'll do my best a gude wife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.
Page 107 - Not in the strong wind that brake the rocks in pieces, not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in the still small voice that followed, the Lord made himself known.
Page 93 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 48 - It was by this sort of discipline that the heart and affections of a being, whose every nerve "turned at the touch of joy or woe, and turning trembled too...
Page 97 - 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, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.