Honor Edgeworth: Or, Ottawa's Present TenseA. S. Woodburn, 1882 - 337 oldal |
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admiration amused answered asked Aunt Jean beauty Belford better Bijou bon-ton breast chair cigar cold comfort dainty dark dear destiny distraction door dream eyes face father feel fellow felt Fifine fingers Fitts girl glance gratified Guy Elersley Guy's hands handsome happy head heart Henry Rayne Honor Edgeworth hope hour influence Jean d'Alberg Johnny Reid knew laughed leaned leave light lips live Madame d'Alberg Maistre Miss morning mystery Nanette never Newfoundland dog night Ottawa pain passed Pat Crowley poor Potts pretty quiet quietly Rayne's house rest Rideau Hall sigh silent sleep smile soul Sparks Street spoke stole stood strange suddenly sure surprise sweet tears tell things thought to-day to-night tone Traveller's Inn trembling turned uncle uncle's victim Vivian Standish voice window woman wonder words young doctor young lady
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112. oldal - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
112. oldal - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
57. oldal - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
112. oldal - Man, being reasonable, must get drunk ; The best of life is but intoxication : Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation ; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion : But to return, — Get very drunk ; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then.
112. oldal - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
132. oldal - With goddess-like demeanour forth she went, Not unattended ; for on her, as queen, A pomp of winning graces waited still, And from about her shot darts of desire Into all eyes, to wish her still in sight.
285. oldal - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
255. oldal - Then gently scan your brother Man, Still gentler sister Woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it.
100. oldal - Alas, how easily things go wrong ! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long ! And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.
236. oldal - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason...