Hester Howard's Temptation: A Soul's StoryT.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1875 - 572 pagina's |
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affection asked beauty believe Briarheath Carisbrook child chile clairvoyante cloth course dear Doctor Bellair Doctor Clarke Doctor Mordaunt Doctor Patterson Doctor Trevor dream eyes face feel felt girl give grave hand head heard heart Hester Howard Hester Lynne honor hope Household of Bouverie husband Ilium James Sellers Josiah Evans Julius Howard knew La Marque lady large duodecimo volumes laughed letter lips looked Lora Lynnesborough madam marriage married Martingale matter Mattie Lynne Mattie's Melissa mind Miss McClane mistress Mordaunt Trevor Mulgrave Myra Clay nature never night once Pardette Parthenia Forbes passed passion patient peculiar perhaps poor reply San Francisco seemed sister Hester sleep smile Sophia soul speak spirit spoke Steinbach stood strange suddenly suffering suppose sure Sutton sweet tell thing thought tion truth uncon voice wife woman words young
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Pagina 165 - I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower ; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Pagina 309 - 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.
Pagina 397 - Are there not, Festus, are there not. dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver, One — when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge, One — when, a prince, he rises with his pearl ? Festus, I plunge ! Fest.
Pagina 18 - I was literally hurried through it by my intense sympathy, my devouring curiosity— it was more than interest. I read everywhere — between the courses of the hoteltable, on the boat, in the cars— until I had swallowed the last line. This is no common occurrence with a veteran romance-reader like myself.
Pagina 18 - I have read it twice— the second time more carefully than the first — and I use the term ' wonderful ' because it best expresses the feeling uppermost in my mind, both while reading and thinking it over. As a piece of imaginative writing, I have seen nothing to equal it since the days of Edgar A. Poe, and I doubt whether he could have sustained himself and reader through a book of half the size of the