The Heiress: A Novel ...Harper & Brothers, 1834 |
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... hope to pass through life unscathed , unblamed ; to find the philosopher's stone , the waters of oblivion , or the sense of a madman , are hopes possessed of equal wisdom . But she who gives a fête from ostentation , cannot complain if ...
... hope to pass through life unscathed , unblamed ; to find the philosopher's stone , the waters of oblivion , or the sense of a madman , are hopes possessed of equal wisdom . But she who gives a fête from ostentation , cannot complain if ...
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... hope you are as angry as I am . " " Not quite ! It is too hot ; but I hope Mr. Elliott will not hear her . Have you seen him lately ? " " Not since I first entered the room , when he was watching you and De Roos , and , I suppose ...
... hope you are as angry as I am . " " Not quite ! It is too hot ; but I hope Mr. Elliott will not hear her . Have you seen him lately ? " " Not since I first entered the room , when he was watching you and De Roos , and , I suppose ...
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... hope soon to lose all sign of lameness . " " Then you despise , or dislike dancing ? ” " L Neither ; I am fond of it . " " And yet you do not dance ! Have the ladies of our county no charms for you ? " " The deficiency 12 THE HEIRESS .
... hope soon to lose all sign of lameness . " " Then you despise , or dislike dancing ? ” " L Neither ; I am fond of it . " " And yet you do not dance ! Have the ladies of our county no charms for you ? " " The deficiency 12 THE HEIRESS .
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... hope for days ? How could he , by declining , ap- pear to fling back the kindness offered ? Fortunately for his pleasure or his generosity , another decided the debate . " Miss St. Maur , may I hope the intense and almost over- powering ...
... hope for days ? How could he , by declining , ap- pear to fling back the kindness offered ? Fortunately for his pleasure or his generosity , another decided the debate . " Miss St. Maur , may I hope the intense and almost over- powering ...
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... hope I need not point out , that from the peculiarity of our late conversation , delicacy to me demands that this subject should never be mentioned , either to Mr. De Roos or others . " " What " Fear not ! " he said , anxious to quiet ...
... hope I need not point out , that from the peculiarity of our late conversation , delicacy to me demands that this subject should never be mentioned , either to Mr. De Roos or others . " " What " Fear not ! " he said , anxious to quiet ...
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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 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.