Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... knew that he would consider as such , but her virtues also that she secluded from his notice . A peculiar tact seemed to teach her that she could not be pleasing in her father's eyes . Hence she se- dulously veiled from his observation ...
... knew that he would consider as such , but her virtues also that she secluded from his notice . A peculiar tact seemed to teach her that she could not be pleasing in her father's eyes . Hence she se- dulously veiled from his observation ...
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... knew , who had the misfortune to be in any degree absurd , form- ed a prominent part of her stock of pleasures . And thus , with little variation passed the first pe- riod of Catherine's life . It was now to be diversi . fied with an ...
... knew , who had the misfortune to be in any degree absurd , form- ed a prominent part of her stock of pleasures . And thus , with little variation passed the first pe- riod of Catherine's life . It was now to be diversi . fied with an ...
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... knew there was such a person as herself in existence . But as girls are commonly prompt enough in pèr- ceiving the exact degree of attention they excite , she had no difficulty in persuading herself that St. Au- byn not only did not ...
... knew there was such a person as herself in existence . But as girls are commonly prompt enough in pèr- ceiving the exact degree of attention they excite , she had no difficulty in persuading herself that St. Au- byn not only did not ...
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... knew he would do so . I knew that he would soon miss me ; and I knew , also , that he would soon find me . What a curious thing this kind of affection is ! It seems as if there were an in- stinct between two people , which prompts them ...
... knew he would do so . I knew that he would soon miss me ; and I knew , also , that he would soon find me . What a curious thing this kind of affection is ! It seems as if there were an in- stinct between two people , which prompts them ...
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... knew ; so pleasing in her difference of character , so captivating in her peculiar style of beauty , in a word , she was so original , and so delightful , that be- fore I knew what I was about , I found myself intri- guing to get an ...
... knew ; so pleasing in her difference of character , so captivating in her peculiar style of beauty , in a word , she was so original , and so delightful , that be- fore I knew what I was about , I found myself intri- guing to get an ...
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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.