Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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Page 32
... smile or tear , it seemed so to gratify him ! only that once or twice he sighed , and uttered something like a fear for me . Once he said , on discovering me very near to sobbing , If disappointment , or sorrow of any kind should be ...
... smile or tear , it seemed so to gratify him ! only that once or twice he sighed , and uttered something like a fear for me . Once he said , on discovering me very near to sobbing , If disappointment , or sorrow of any kind should be ...
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... smile of delight which quickly pervaded her speaking features , emboldened me to believe that though an unexpected , I was not an unwelcome vi- sitor . Oh , how often , how very often , since my ac- quaintance with this captivating girl ...
... smile of delight which quickly pervaded her speaking features , emboldened me to believe that though an unexpected , I was not an unwelcome vi- sitor . Oh , how often , how very often , since my ac- quaintance with this captivating girl ...
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... smile the man whose most devoted attachment is all your own ? ' " She raised to mine those eloquent eyes , which wanted neither speech nor language ; and again I repeat , that it was the moment of my life when I ex- perienced the most ...
... smile the man whose most devoted attachment is all your own ? ' " She raised to mine those eloquent eyes , which wanted neither speech nor language ; and again I repeat , that it was the moment of my life when I ex- perienced the most ...
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... smile , when directed to Augusta . She had often been dissatisfied , before she mentioned her to St. Aubyn in the manner we have related , at their frequent laughter and frolics ; for which in point of fact St. Aubyn had no kind of ...
... smile , when directed to Augusta . She had often been dissatisfied , before she mentioned her to St. Aubyn in the manner we have related , at their frequent laughter and frolics ; for which in point of fact St. Aubyn had no kind of ...
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... smile with disdain at the paltry at- tacks of their low malice . She certainly had not only never loved Catherine ... smiles and her non- sense had been directed in vain . But alas ! what was the accomplishment that Catherine possessed ...
... smile with disdain at the paltry at- tacks of their low malice . She certainly had not only never loved Catherine ... smiles and her non- sense had been directed in vain . But alas ! what was the accomplishment that Catherine possessed ...
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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.