'She and I'. |
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... fact , or fancy , namely , that , notwithstanding that I might have a hard struggle to win my darling , I should win her in the end : -that , also , in spite of antago- nistic mammas and contrary circumstances , she would then be my own ...
... fact , or fancy , namely , that , notwithstanding that I might have a hard struggle to win my darling , I should win her in the end : -that , also , in spite of antago- nistic mammas and contrary circumstances , she would then be my own ...
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... fact ! " But I love Min , Mrs. Clyde , " — I stam- mered " and she has promised- " Dear me ! This is quite delicious , " laughed Mrs. Clyde - a cold sneering laugh , which made me shiver as if cold water were running down my back ...
... fact ! " But I love Min , Mrs. Clyde , " — I stam- mered " and she has promised- " Dear me ! This is quite delicious , " laughed Mrs. Clyde - a cold sneering laugh , which made me shiver as if cold water were running down my back ...
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... fact ; and , Min herself had gone from me , without one single parting word ! I was born to be unlucky , I think ; every- thing went wrong with me now . Like the lonely , hopeless hero in Longfellow's transla- tion of Min's favourite ...
... fact ; and , Min herself had gone from me , without one single parting word ! I was born to be unlucky , I think ; every- thing went wrong with me now . Like the lonely , hopeless hero in Longfellow's transla- tion of Min's favourite ...
Página 61
... facts and figures at a five - hundred - horse - power rate , in- terlarding them with such stray skeleton scraps of popular information as mendicant scholars may pick up from the sumptuously - spread tables of the learned , through ...
... facts and figures at a five - hundred - horse - power rate , in- terlarding them with such stray skeleton scraps of popular information as mendicant scholars may pick up from the sumptuously - spread tables of the learned , through ...
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... their present routine characteristics . They might be made so full of life , and even amusement , that they would thenceforth lose their lesson look ; and be , correspondingly , all the more easily learnt . In fact , they 64 Up for Exam . "
... their present routine characteristics . They might be made so full of life , and even amusement , that they would thenceforth lose their lesson look ; and be , correspondingly , all the more easily learnt . In fact , they 64 Up for Exam . "
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 1 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Página 173 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Página 6 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, ' Is there any hope ?' To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn TO , AFTER READING A LIFE AND LETTERS.
Página 266 - For ever and for ever, all in a blessed home — And there to wait a little while till you and Effie come — To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast — And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest THE LOTOS-EATERS "COURAGE!
Página 235 - And, after all what is a lie ? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade, and I defy Historians, heroes, lawyers, priests, to put A fact without some leaven of a lie. The very shadow of true truth would shut Up annals, revelations, poesy, And prophecy — except it should be dated Some years before the incidents related. Praised be all liars and all lies! Who now Can tax my mild Muse with misanthropy ? She rings the world's 'Te Deum', and her brow Blushes for those who will not: — but to sigh Is idle.
Página 57 - What care ye now, if winter's storm Sweep ruthless o'er each silken form? Christ's blessing at your heart is warm, Ye fear no vexing mood. Alas! of thousand bosoms kind, That daily court you and caress, How few the happy secret find Of your calm loveliness! "Live for to-day! to-morrow's light To-morrow's cares shall bring to sight, Go sleep like closing flowers at night, And Heaven thy morn will bless.
Página 162 - Tis a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend or to give in, But to beg or to borrow or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
Página 60 - Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide, The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humbler pride. When thus Creation's charms around combine, Amidst the store should thankless pride repine ? Say, should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Página 246 - There's JACK has made a wondrous marriage ; There's laughing TOM is laughing yet ; There's brave AUGUSTUS drives his carriage ; There's poor old FRED in the Gazette ; On JAMES'S head the grass is growing: Good Lord ! The world has wagged apace Since here we set the Claret flowing, And drank, and ate the Bouillabaisse.
Página 222 - ... like as a father pitieth his own children, so is the Lord merciful to them that fear him.