The Inheritance, Volume 1Blackwood, 1824 - 387 páginas |
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... hear them run out in raptures at such a prospect as this , " pointing to the long bleak line of Scottish coast , " even this you , too , must admire ; even this cold shrubless tract of bare earth and stone walls , and yon dark stormy ...
... hear them run out in raptures at such a prospect as this , " pointing to the long bleak line of Scottish coast , " even this you , too , must admire ; even this cold shrubless tract of bare earth and stone walls , and yon dark stormy ...
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... hear her mother sigh , and even groan , upon very slight occasions , sometimes upon no occasion at all ; but , at present , there was something that betok- ened an intensity of suffering too sincere for feigning . " You are ill , mamma ...
... hear her mother sigh , and even groan , upon very slight occasions , sometimes upon no occasion at all ; but , at present , there was something that betok- ened an intensity of suffering too sincere for feigning . " You are ill , mamma ...
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... hear any clock strike ; but , from the appearance of the morning , I am sure it was early . " " And what , may I ask , was the mode or manner , Miss St. Clair , by which you thought proper to quit my house at so untimely and unusual an ...
... hear any clock strike ; but , from the appearance of the morning , I am sure it was early . " " And what , may I ask , was the mode or manner , Miss St. Clair , by which you thought proper to quit my house at so untimely and unusual an ...
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... hear her talk , and would admire her talk when you hear her matter . All the wonder is , whilst she speaks only thrums , how she makes so many different ends hang together . " RICHARD FLECKNO , 1658 . MANY visiters arrived the two ...
... hear her talk , and would admire her talk when you hear her matter . All the wonder is , whilst she speaks only thrums , how she makes so many different ends hang together . " RICHARD FLECKNO , 1658 . MANY visiters arrived the two ...
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... hear that ? At the Circuit ball Lord Punmedown said to Anthony Whyte , pointing to the two Miss Blacks ' I fear , ' says he , two Blacks will never make a White . No , my Lord , ' says Anthony , for you know there's no turning a ...
... hear that ? At the Circuit ball Lord Punmedown said to Anthony Whyte , pointing to the two Miss Blacks ' I fear , ' says he , two Blacks will never make a White . No , my Lord , ' says Anthony , for you know there's no turning a ...
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admiration affection Andrew Waddell answer Anthony Whyte asked assure aunt beauty Bell Black Bloom-Park busk called carriage certainly CHAPTER charm Clair Colonel Delmour colour cousin cried daugh daughter dear delight dinner door dress Earl emotion exclaimed expression eyes Fairbairn favour feelings friends Gertrude felt Gertrude's give hand happy hear heard heart honour hope John Tod Lady Betty length letter Lewiston look Lord Ross Lord Rossville Lord Rossville's Lordship Lyndsay Lyndsay's Major Waddell mamma manner ment Millbank mind Miss Bell Miss Black Miss Lilly Miss Pratt Miss St mother mour nature never niece party person present pretty pride Ramsay replied scarcely Scotland seated seemed seen sigh silent sister smile soul southernwood speak sure taste tears tell there's thing thought tion tone truth turned uncle Adam voice walk window wish words young
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Página 289 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 287 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 314 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Página 67 - Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Página 46 - Pictures like these, dear madam, to design, Asks no firm hand, and no unerring line; Some wandering touches, some reflected light, Some flying stroke alone can hit 'em right: For how should equal colours do the knack? Chameleons who can paint in white and black? "Yet Chloe sure was formed without a spot"— Nature in her then erred not, but forgot. "With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"— She wants a heart.
Página 88 - DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers.
Página 67 - TO BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night?
Página 84 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 307 - I will not leave you long ; For in your shades I deem some spirit dwells, Who from the chiding stream, or groaning oak, Still hears and answers to Matilda's moan.