Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... the shrubbery to get a little air , there is Miss Mathews , Miss Ca- therine , I am shocked ! without your hat , without your gloves , and running off in that manner ! is that > the proper way for a young lady of fashion to TRIALS. ...
... the shrubbery to get a little air , there is Miss Mathews , Miss Ca- therine , I am shocked ! without your hat , without your gloves , and running off in that manner ! is that > the proper way for a young lady of fashion to TRIALS. ...
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... manners of a gentlewoman . " " It is a sad thing , indeed , Catherine , " said Lady Vincent , adding her remonstrances , " it is a very sad thing to see a girl of your age ( for you are now in your sixteenth year , ) — I say it is a ...
... manners of a gentlewoman . " " It is a sad thing , indeed , Catherine , " said Lady Vincent , adding her remonstrances , " it is a very sad thing to see a girl of your age ( for you are now in your sixteenth year , ) — I say it is a ...
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... manner in which Lady Vincent's mind had been prepared for it . She had long been visited with many misgivings as to the result of her brother's hesitation upon this point , and was not , therefore , wholly overpowered with ...
... manner in which Lady Vincent's mind had been prepared for it . She had long been visited with many misgivings as to the result of her brother's hesitation upon this point , and was not , therefore , wholly overpowered with ...
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... manner the most insufferably galling to a high spirited girl like Catherine ; -always , as the poor child had remarked , teazing her about tri- fles , such as wearing her hat and gloves when she went out of the house , holding up her ...
... manner the most insufferably galling to a high spirited girl like Catherine ; -always , as the poor child had remarked , teazing her about tri- fles , such as wearing her hat and gloves when she went out of the house , holding up her ...
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... manner , such songs as had particularly struck her fancy , and which were therefore performed with a degree of taste and skill which promised almost every thing when a little more matured . Besides her love for music and reading , the ...
... manner , such songs as had particularly struck her fancy , and which were therefore performed with a degree of taste and skill which promised almost every thing when a little more matured . Besides her love for music and reading , 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.