The Story of My Wardship, 2. kötetRichard Bentley, 1856 |
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6 - 10 találat összesen 41 találatból.
44. oldal
... head , he asked me how you - Isola , could ever consent to marrying Lord D'Arville ! I was amazed , and laughed immoderately , it did seem so extremely absurd ! and I was quite puzzled to think what could have given him such a notion ...
... head , he asked me how you - Isola , could ever consent to marrying Lord D'Arville ! I was amazed , and laughed immoderately , it did seem so extremely absurd ! and I was quite puzzled to think what could have given him such a notion ...
52. oldal
... head about me , and alternately advocated the claims of " Sir So- and - so , or the Honorable That , " but she found me very troublesome in not falling in with her views . However , as she took very good - naturedly the many ...
... head about me , and alternately advocated the claims of " Sir So- and - so , or the Honorable That , " but she found me very troublesome in not falling in with her views . However , as she took very good - naturedly the many ...
55. oldal
... head- ache , you care for nothing but your pillow . And so it is with other amusements , in a greater or lesser degree , according to the amount of excitement ; the fêtes and pro- menades pleased me at first , but there was a sameness ...
... head- ache , you care for nothing but your pillow . And so it is with other amusements , in a greater or lesser degree , according to the amount of excitement ; the fêtes and pro- menades pleased me at first , but there was a sameness ...
65. oldal
... head seemed fixed on with such carpenter work , that he could not turn it , it was " nailed " on evidently , and he was fain to keep it in one " pose , " and move only his eyes , when any attractive object crossed his path . It was thus ...
... head seemed fixed on with such carpenter work , that he could not turn it , it was " nailed " on evidently , and he was fain to keep it in one " pose , " and move only his eyes , when any attractive object crossed his path . It was thus ...
68. oldal
... head was turned with flattery , and that , moreover , he was am- bitious ; but why - oh ! why had he ever shown me attention ? and taught me to study his opinions , till I considered he was authority sufficient in 68 THE STORY CHAPTER ...
... head was turned with flattery , and that , moreover , he was am- bitious ; but why - oh ! why had he ever shown me attention ? and taught me to study his opinions , till I considered he was authority sufficient in 68 THE STORY CHAPTER ...
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!