New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 164Henry Colburn, 1879 |
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Pagina 17
... Jessie , Jessie , " then exclaimed the old lady with wonderful energy , and on turning round , I beheld one of the prettiest girls I had ever seen . " Jessie ! " surely such loveliness was not native to Rhymer's Rents . A BEAU - IDEAL ...
... Jessie , Jessie , " then exclaimed the old lady with wonderful energy , and on turning round , I beheld one of the prettiest girls I had ever seen . " Jessie ! " surely such loveliness was not native to Rhymer's Rents . A BEAU - IDEAL ...
Pagina 121
... Jessie - the only intelligible word she could speak , by the way - as I , then , for the first time beheld her , seemed to me the very fairest of them all ; and I am of the same opinion still . Mentally I judged her to be sixteen ; but ...
... Jessie - the only intelligible word she could speak , by the way - as I , then , for the first time beheld her , seemed to me the very fairest of them all ; and I am of the same opinion still . Mentally I judged her to be sixteen ; but ...
Pagina 122
... Jessie flushed , to the tips of her ears , a vivid scarlet , and was on the point of resenting an inquiry which had been , certainly , most clumsily , not to say offensively , put ; though not from any feeling of idle curiosity , but ...
... Jessie flushed , to the tips of her ears , a vivid scarlet , and was on the point of resenting an inquiry which had been , certainly , most clumsily , not to say offensively , put ; though not from any feeling of idle curiosity , but ...
Pagina 123
... Jessie coloured . " We could never repay you - never - there is not the slightest chance- " then , in a lower voice- " if it was not for gran'ma I should not mind ; do you think she will get better ? " " While there is life there is ...
... Jessie coloured . " We could never repay you - never - there is not the slightest chance- " then , in a lower voice- " if it was not for gran'ma I should not mind ; do you think she will get better ? " " While there is life there is ...
Pagina 124
... Jessie hid her face in her hands for a few seconds , and then stooped down and kissed her grandmother , who pointed to me , and tried by every means in her power , but in vain , to signify her wishes , which I took upon myself to ...
... Jessie hid her face in her hands for a few seconds , and then stooped down and kissed her grandmother , who pointed to me , and tried by every means in her power , but in vain , to signify her wishes , which I took upon myself to ...
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Pagina 568 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
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Pagina 685 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Pagina 218 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Pagina 331 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! I TRAVELLED among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea ; Nor.
Pagina 705 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Pagina 416 - That she was a lady, inwards and outwards, from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet, in head, in heart, and in mind, a lady by education and a lady by nature, a lady also by birth in spite of that deficiency respecting her grandfather, I hereby state as a fact — meo periculo.
Pagina 406 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Pagina 405 - That not a natural flower can grow on earth, Without a flower upon the spiritual side, Substantial, archetypal, all a-glow With blossoming causes,— not so far away, That we, whose spirit-sense is somewhat cleared, May not catch something of the bloom and breath,- Too vaguely apprehended, though indeed Still apprehended, consciously or not.