The Story of My Wardship, 2. kötetRichard Bentley, 1856 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 13 találatból.
9. oldal
... followed by an impressive pause , while a gleam of intense gratification lighted up his cold , snake - like eye . Shortly afterwards he left me . I was pondering over B 3 OF MY WARDSHIP . 9 "His aunt," I replied, "is ...
... followed by an impressive pause , while a gleam of intense gratification lighted up his cold , snake - like eye . Shortly afterwards he left me . I was pondering over B 3 OF MY WARDSHIP . 9 "His aunt," I replied, "is ...
12. oldal
... followed , I sat meditating how I should broach a subject on which I had thought a good deal- " my father ! " I longed to hear her ladyship speak of him , but sudden- ly I felt a delicacy about it , I hardly knew how to begin , but ...
... followed , I sat meditating how I should broach a subject on which I had thought a good deal- " my father ! " I longed to hear her ladyship speak of him , but sudden- ly I felt a delicacy about it , I hardly knew how to begin , but ...
18. oldal
... the countenances of the players , and listening to some bygone young ladies , who followed the example of Jephthah's daugh- ter , and bewailed their single lot , in touching strains to a piano accompaniment , I had no amusement 18 THE ...
... the countenances of the players , and listening to some bygone young ladies , who followed the example of Jephthah's daugh- ter , and bewailed their single lot , in touching strains to a piano accompaniment , I had no amusement 18 THE ...
31. oldal
... followed me as the shark follows the vessel in which there is a corpse - in the hope that rottenness of principle , or pollution of feeling might render me a victim to his vora- city your father's sentiments were very different , and we ...
... followed me as the shark follows the vessel in which there is a corpse - in the hope that rottenness of principle , or pollution of feeling might render me a victim to his vora- city your father's sentiments were very different , and we ...
38. oldal
... followed . I had misgivings upon the point . Some one else came , however , Lord D'Arville . " Well , Isola , " he exclaimed with some cordiality , " I must congratulate you on having made your débût , and got through it very well ...
... followed . I had misgivings upon the point . Some one else came , however , Lord D'Arville . " Well , Isola , " he exclaimed with some cordiality , " I must congratulate you on having made your débût , and got through it very well ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
admired amongst amusing answered Arethusa Ashwoods asked aunt Barley Barleycrop beautiful better Captain Howard Charles Compton charming cold countess creature cried dare dear delicate dowager drawing-room dress endeavour exclaimed expressed eyes face fancy feelings fellow felt fond Fulham gentlemen GENTLEMEN OF VERONA girl grace Grey guardian happy hear heard heart honour Houlton imagine Isola Jermyn Street Kensington Gardens kind Lady Lucy Lady Ravensden ladyship laughed Leila light lips lively looked Lord D'Arville Lord Ravensden lordship Madam manner matter ment mind Miss Arrow Miss Brand Miss Rice Miss Tomkins morning never night old lady Oxenford party pleasure poor possessed present pretty quiet remarked replied round scene seemed smile soul spirit strange sure sweet talking tell there's thing thought tion tone Townsend Tomkins turned Twig voice whilst wish woman words young lady
Népszerű szakaszok
202. oldal - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And.
189. oldal - After some time, to abuse Othello's ear, That he is too familiar with his wife :— He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose, As asses are.
68. oldal - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
135. oldal - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
173. oldal - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
261. oldal - For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
172. oldal - A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, and a' that; The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Ye see yon birkie, ca'da lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that; For a' that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that; The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a
288. oldal - Here at least, where nature sickens, nothing. Ah for some retreat Deep in yonder shining Orient, where my life began to beat! Where in wild Mahratta-battle fell my father, evil-starred; I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward.
97. oldal - On a poet's lips I slept, Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept. Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
277. oldal - The table in fair order spread, They heap the glittering canisters with bread; Viands of various kinds allure the taste, Of choicest sort and savour, rich repast!