The Inheritance, Volume 1Blackwood, 1824 - 387 páginas |
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... less changing features . In some places they were covered with wood , now in the first tints of Spring - the formal poplar's pale hue , and the fringed larch's tender green mingling with the red seared leaf of the oak , and the brown ...
... less changing features . In some places they were covered with wood , now in the first tints of Spring - the formal poplar's pale hue , and the fringed larch's tender green mingling with the red seared leaf of the oak , and the brown ...
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... less extraordinary than meritorious . She was now employed on her fifth rug - the colours were orange and blue - the pattern an orange tiger couchant picked out with scarlet upon an azure ground . She also read all the novels and ...
... less extraordinary than meritorious . She was now employed on her fifth rug - the colours were orange and blue - the pattern an orange tiger couchant picked out with scarlet upon an azure ground . She also read all the novels and ...
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... less lofty tone . " The junior member of this family , whom I have now to present to you , is Ed- ward Lyndsay , Esquire , of Lynnwood , in this county , only child of the late Edward Lyndsay of Lynnwood , Esquire , and my youngest ...
... less lofty tone . " The junior member of this family , whom I have now to present to you , is Ed- ward Lyndsay , Esquire , of Lynnwood , in this county , only child of the late Edward Lyndsay of Lynnwood , Esquire , and my youngest ...
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... less rooms , which looked as if they had been con- trived solely for the pastime of hide and seek . At length she entered one she guessed to be Lord Ross- ville's study , and was hastily retreating , when her eye was caught by an old ...
... less rooms , which looked as if they had been con- trived solely for the pastime of hide and seek . At length she entered one she guessed to be Lord Ross- ville's study , and was hastily retreating , when her eye was caught by an old ...
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... less , untimely , consequently , unbefitting hour ; and you rashly , wantonly , and improperly , precipitate yourself from a window - and what window ? why , the window of my private sitting room ! A young female is seen issuing from ...
... less , untimely , consequently , unbefitting hour ; and you rashly , wantonly , and improperly , precipitate yourself from a window - and what window ? why , the window of my private sitting room ! A young female is seen issuing from ...
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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.