Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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Page 31
... repeated , raising his fine , expressive eyes as he spoke , and looking so in unison with the words he uttered ! Oh , Augusta , such a thought came across me at that moment ! I cannot put it into words , it was so vague and indistinct ...
... repeated , raising his fine , expressive eyes as he spoke , and looking so in unison with the words he uttered ! Oh , Augusta , such a thought came across me at that moment ! I cannot put it into words , it was so vague and indistinct ...
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... repeated passages of poetry I , for a time , succeeded . But it was a hard trial , when , unconsciously turning to see how she was af- fected by any sweet or tender thought which my quo- tations produced , I perceived the loveliest eyes ...
... repeated passages of poetry I , for a time , succeeded . But it was a hard trial , when , unconsciously turning to see how she was af- fected by any sweet or tender thought which my quo- tations produced , I perceived the loveliest eyes ...
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... repeated her sentiments , and St. Aubyn more warmly , and with greater interest in Augusta , replied to them . On any other subject a hint from him would have sufficed to direct her opi- nions and conduct in the line he suggested . But ...
... repeated her sentiments , and St. Aubyn more warmly , and with greater interest in Augusta , replied to them . On any other subject a hint from him would have sufficed to direct her opi- nions and conduct in the line he suggested . But ...
Page 56
... repeated , in a state of agita tion scarcely inferior to her's , for wholly unsuspicious of the phantom she had raised to torment herself , he knew not to what other cause than that of temporary derangement to attribute her strange and ...
... repeated , in a state of agita tion scarcely inferior to her's , for wholly unsuspicious of the phantom she had raised to torment herself , he knew not to what other cause than that of temporary derangement to attribute her strange and ...
Page 57
... repeated- " and what of her ? You surely " -and he half drew back to look at her , as if to read in her countenance the thoughts that were passing within her mind , as a faint surmise of what might possibly be their nature , suddenly ...
... repeated- " and what of her ? You surely " -and he half drew back to look at her , as if to read in her countenance the thoughts that were passing within her mind , as a faint surmise of what might possibly be their nature , suddenly ...
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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.