Trials: A Tale, Volume 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824 - 957 pages |
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... tear , and a cheek the pure vermillion of which was heightened with extreme vexation . " Catherine , I desire that ... tears , which could not , after all , be repelled ; but which every now and then broke out in a stifled sob , as her ...
... tear , and a cheek the pure vermillion of which was heightened with extreme vexation . " Catherine , I desire that ... tears , which could not , after all , be repelled ; but which every now and then broke out in a stifled sob , as her ...
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... tears with which many of her supplications were of- fered , " they could not certainly say for my lady that she seemed so hearty like in praying as his honour . " Still they always ended with saying that she was " an excellent good lady ...
... tears with which many of her supplications were of- fered , " they could not certainly say for my lady that she seemed so hearty like in praying as his honour . " Still they always ended with saying that she was " an excellent good lady ...
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... following his sister's advice , and placing his daughter as she recommended , with a Mrs. Vernon , who kept a finishing school for young ladies in the vicinity of Hyde Park . CHAPTER II . AFTER innumerable tears over Fidele , and 14.
... following his sister's advice , and placing his daughter as she recommended , with a Mrs. Vernon , who kept a finishing school for young ladies in the vicinity of Hyde Park . CHAPTER II . AFTER innumerable tears over Fidele , and 14.
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A Tale Mary Ann Kelty. CHAPTER II . AFTER innumerable tears over Fidele , and the poney , and the two Miss Johnsons , who stood next in succession in Catherine's love , and even a parting embrace with Miss Mathews , who , being looked at ...
A Tale Mary Ann Kelty. CHAPTER II . AFTER innumerable tears over Fidele , and the poney , and the two Miss Johnsons , who stood next in succession in Catherine's love , and even a parting embrace with Miss Mathews , who , being looked at ...
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... tears . Yet tears so delicious , that never have I known a bliss so exquisite as while they were stealing down my cheeks . It was St. Aubyn's tenderness that made me weep . Oh ! he has the soft- est , the gentlest of minds . I told you ...
... tears . Yet tears so delicious , that never have I known a bliss so exquisite as while they were stealing down my cheeks . It was St. Aubyn's tenderness that made me weep . Oh ! he has the soft- est , the gentlest of minds . I told you ...
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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.