Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... heard parti cular songs and other compositions executed , soon emulated her to be an imitator of what afforded her so much pleasure , and far from an unsuccessful one . She performed infinitely worse before her father than she did ...
... heard parti cular songs and other compositions executed , soon emulated her to be an imitator of what afforded her so much pleasure , and far from an unsuccessful one . She performed infinitely worse before her father than she did ...
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... heard too much , in the last six months of her life , not to have given them more attention than it had ever occurred to her to bestow upon them before . Augusta Belmont talked of nothing else . Mrs. Vernon , in reproving any ...
... heard too much , in the last six months of her life , not to have given them more attention than it had ever occurred to her to bestow upon them before . Augusta Belmont talked of nothing else . Mrs. Vernon , in reproving any ...
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... heard a clock strike , which reminded her that the time Mademoiselle had fixed for their return was arrived ; and they retraced their steps , still accompanied by the gentlemen , who when the young ladies arrived in sight of their party ...
... heard a clock strike , which reminded her that the time Mademoiselle had fixed for their return was arrived ; and they retraced their steps , still accompanied by the gentlemen , who when the young ladies arrived in sight of their party ...
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... heard myself loudly called for , by some one approaching , and I hurried on towards the house . " We were met almost immediately by Lady Vin- cent , who , for the first time , I believe , suspected that there was some endearing ...
... heard myself loudly called for , by some one approaching , and I hurried on towards the house . " We were met almost immediately by Lady Vin- cent , who , for the first time , I believe , suspected that there was some endearing ...
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... heard me not , neither did she see me , for she was sitting with her back to the door and occupied with her work . " And here I must observe upon the subject of her musical powers , ( though , to be sure , you will call it the ...
... heard me not , neither did she see me , for she was sitting with her back to the door and occupied with her work . " And here I must observe upon the subject of her musical powers , ( though , to be sure , you will call it the ...
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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.