The Heiress: A Novel ...Harper & Brothers, 1834 |
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... doubt your stand- ing forth as the champion of the distressed . I think you said wealth and beauty were as dross compared to the ore of the mind and heart ? " " I have no doubt Mr. De Roos will when he hears that Miss St. Maur sat by ...
... doubt your stand- ing forth as the champion of the distressed . I think you said wealth and beauty were as dross compared to the ore of the mind and heart ? " " I have no doubt Mr. De Roos will when he hears that Miss St. Maur sat by ...
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... doubt . " " You are mistaken ! Five minutes hence you will de- sire the very explanation you now refuse ; and hear it you must , for my satisfaction , if not for you own . It is not very agreeable to be obliged to own having called ...
... doubt . " " You are mistaken ! Five minutes hence you will de- sire the very explanation you now refuse ; and hear it you must , for my satisfaction , if not for you own . It is not very agreeable to be obliged to own having called ...
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... doubt his friendship and sincerity then ? " " Doubts have long since been dispelled by certainty ; and my forced sojourn with him is as hateful to him as , a short time since , to me . I am not what he would have me thought , and the ...
... doubt his friendship and sincerity then ? " " Doubts have long since been dispelled by certainty ; and my forced sojourn with him is as hateful to him as , a short time since , to me . I am not what he would have me thought , and the ...
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... doubt if the Ariosto of the North would ap- prove of such a perversion of his poetry ; and I must take les- sons in deception , or I can never hope to keep a secret . " " Room , ladies , room ! " exclaimed Alford , returning , and ...
... doubt if the Ariosto of the North would ap- prove of such a perversion of his poetry ; and I must take les- sons in deception , or I can never hope to keep a secret . " " Room , ladies , room ! " exclaimed Alford , returning , and ...
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... doubt if any but the thoroughly cold and heartless have been quite proof against its beautiful witchery . I certainly was at that time like the mortal dwelling in elfin abodes ; my eyes had not been anointed , and I saw gold and jewels ...
... doubt if any but the thoroughly cold and heartless have been quite proof against its beautiful witchery . I certainly was at that time like the mortal dwelling in elfin abodes ; my eyes had not been anointed , and I saw gold and jewels ...
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admiration agony Alford Annie Annie Grey answer asked beauty believe better blush boat bright calm Caroline carriage cheek child cold colour cousin Dalton dance dare daugh dear Helen deceiver delight Dormer doubt eau de Cologne Elliott Euston eyes fancy favour fear feel felt fête forgive former gentleman half hand happiness hear heard heart Helen St heroine honour hope horse Hurlestone indignant inquired James Watts Jones kindness knew Lady Catharine laugh light lingered lips look Lord Fitzallan Lucy Martin Mahon manner Maur mind Miss Carleton Miss Grey Miss Mahon Miss St mother never nurse Palace of Truth pale passed passion pity pleasure poor quadrille question racter remarked replied Roos seemed shame silence smile sorrow speak spirit spoke stood sure tale tell thank thing thought tion told tone triumph truth turned whilst wild wish wonder words
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Página 25 - The beings of the mind are not of clay ; Essentially immortal, they create And multiply in us a brighter ray And more beloved existence : that which Fate Prohibits to dull life, in this our state Of mortal bondage...
Página 1 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 217 - The deep, the low, the pleading tone With which I sang another's love, Interpreted my own. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace ; And she forgave me that I gazed Too fondly on her face...
Página 105 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Página 129 - Ding, Dong, bell Pussy's in the well, Who put her in? Little Johnny Green. Who pulled her out? Little Johnny Stout.
Página 141 - This* would I wear as my inheritance,— And what hope can arise to me from it, When I and it are here both prisoners ? Only may this, if ever we be free, Keep or redeem me from all infamy.
Página 81 - O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Página 64 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How...
Página 105 - O'Rourke ! noble feast, it will ne'er be forgot By those who were there, and by those who were not.
Página 78 - of what should have been done, and what should not have been done, but little of what is done.