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... Richard had taken him to his counting - house , and initiated him into ... Richard engaged the best master the town that you are well and thriving . No more ... Avenel's , his host began to evince a certain change of manner . He was no ...
... Richard had taken him to his counting - house , and initiated him into ... Richard engaged the best master the town that you are well and thriving . No more ... Avenel's , his host began to evince a certain change of manner . He was no ...
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... Richard Avenel , however , though by no means a credulous man , was an implicit believer in Mrs. M'Catchley . He had learned that she was a widow - an honorable by birth , an honorable by marriage - living on her | handsome jointure ...
... Richard Avenel , however , though by no means a credulous man , was an implicit believer in Mrs. M'Catchley . He had learned that she was a widow - an honorable by birth , an honorable by marriage - living on her | handsome jointure ...
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... Avenel . Ah , one hears a great deal , you know , of rich people ; it is the penalty of wealth , Mr. Avenel ! " buzz of the admiring crowd , beheld his nephew in Expectations ! " repeated Richard , firing up . animated conversation with ...
... Avenel . Ah , one hears a great deal , you know , of rich people ; it is the penalty of wealth , Mr. Avenel ! " buzz of the admiring crowd , beheld his nephew in Expectations ! " repeated Richard , firing up . animated conversation with ...
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... Avenel ; and if so , I shall probably reside a great part of the year in London . I don't want to give up my business . No other investment will yield the same interest . But you can soon learn to superintend it for me , as RICHARD AVENEL ...
... Avenel ; and if so , I shall probably reside a great part of the year in London . I don't want to give up my business . No other investment will yield the same interest . But you can soon learn to superintend it for me , as RICHARD AVENEL ...
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... Richard Avenel left his nephew sadly The tinker stopped , and Mr. Avenel stalked up perplexed as to the knotty question from which to him . their talk on the future had diverged - viz . , should he write to the parson ; and assure the ...
... Richard Avenel left his nephew sadly The tinker stopped , and Mr. Avenel stalked up perplexed as to the knotty question from which to him . their talk on the future had diverged - viz . , should he write to the parson ; and assure the ...
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Página 276 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 35 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 185 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 131 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Página 334 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Página 171 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 25 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 276 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew...
Página 89 - The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, confounded me. As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
Página 334 - Thou faery voyager ! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 0 blessed vision ! happy child ! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.