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... desire that he had lived beyond our time , were it but for the sake of sustaining the most delightful sympathies in re- gard to him , which his writings never , while he lived , failed to awaken . It requires an effort to believe that ...
... desire that he had lived beyond our time , were it but for the sake of sustaining the most delightful sympathies in re- gard to him , which his writings never , while he lived , failed to awaken . It requires an effort to believe that ...
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... desire to have some image preserved of the interior apartments as occupied by their founder , and invited from Edinburgh for that purpose Sir Walter's dear friend , William Allan - whose presence , I well knew , would even under the ...
... desire to have some image preserved of the interior apartments as occupied by their founder , and invited from Edinburgh for that purpose Sir Walter's dear friend , William Allan - whose presence , I well knew , would even under the ...
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... desire to overpass the limits of the Great and Good , was seemingly as far as heretofore from the grand secret of life . It was not so in reality - his mind had acquired what before it wanted - hardness ; and we are nearer to true ...
... desire to overpass the limits of the Great and Good , was seemingly as far as heretofore from the grand secret of life . It was not so in reality - his mind had acquired what before it wanted - hardness ; and we are nearer to true ...
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... desire of change , that brought him back to the father - land . But he did not allow so unphilo- sophical a cause to himself ; and , what was strange , he would not allow one much more amiable , and which was , perhaps , the truer cause ...
... desire of change , that brought him back to the father - land . But he did not allow so unphilo- sophical a cause to himself ; and , what was strange , he would not allow one much more amiable , and which was , perhaps , the truer cause ...
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... I would rather know the worst , and be satisfied . ' " That is your deliberate resolution ? ' demanded Cagliostro . " It is , ' replied the Duke firmly . " Be it so . Your desire shall be gratified 50 Modern Novels . 50.
... I would rather know the worst , and be satisfied . ' " That is your deliberate resolution ? ' demanded Cagliostro . " It is , ' replied the Duke firmly . " Be it so . Your desire shall be gratified 50 Modern Novels . 50.
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Página 32 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 112 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Página 597 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 602 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 32 - Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm, that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Página 599 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 466 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 602 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Página 601 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment ; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quick-silver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager...
Página 600 - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, ]3ut our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies, and herself, Fell in the weeping brook.