Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1819 |
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... tell you the truth , I do look upon you as a sort of intellectual goule- you really do remind me of the lady in the Arabian Nights , whose taste or appetite , which you will , led her to scorn every thing that did not savour of the ...
... tell you the truth , I do look upon you as a sort of intellectual goule- you really do remind me of the lady in the Arabian Nights , whose taste or appetite , which you will , led her to scorn every thing that did not savour of the ...
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... , not in part . 99 " Well , situated so detestably as you are , I rather think the best thing you could do , would be to make yourself Duchess of Al- VOL . III . C tamont . How disdainful you look ! Come , tell MARRIAGE . 25.
... , not in part . 99 " Well , situated so detestably as you are , I rather think the best thing you could do , would be to make yourself Duchess of Al- VOL . III . C tamont . How disdainful you look ! Come , tell MARRIAGE . 25.
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... tell me honestly now , would you really re- fuse to be Your Grace , with ninety thou- sand a year , and remain simple Mary Dou- glass , passing rich with perhaps forty ? " 68 Unquestionably , " said Mary . " What ! you really pretend to ...
... tell me honestly now , would you really re- fuse to be Your Grace , with ninety thou- sand a year , and remain simple Mary Dou- glass , passing rich with perhaps forty ? " 68 Unquestionably , " said Mary . " What ! you really pretend to ...
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... of it , our worthy minister , Mr. M'Drone , happened to be calling here the very day we received your last letter . After hearing it read , he most naturally inquired the date of it ; and I cannot tell you 36 MARRIAGE .
... of it , our worthy minister , Mr. M'Drone , happened to be calling here the very day we received your last letter . After hearing it read , he most naturally inquired the date of it ; and I cannot tell you 36 MARRIAGE .
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... tell you how awkward we all felt when we were oblig ed to confess it had none ! And since I am upon that subject , I think it much better to tell you candidly that I do not think your hand of write by any means improved . It does not ...
... tell you how awkward we all felt when we were oblig ed to confess it had none ! And since I am upon that subject , I think it much better to tell you candidly that I do not think your hand of write by any means improved . It does not ...
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Página 54 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie; My music shews you have your closes, And all must die.
Página 58 - ... full glory, either at the rising or setting of it, he would be so transported and amazed, and so admire the glory of it, that he would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object, to behold all the other various beauties this world could present to him.
Página 94 - A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god; Affects to nod And seems to shake the spheres.
Página 243 - Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Página 247 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 54 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 161 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Página 239 - As it slipped through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed ; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.
Página 233 - Teaching we learn ; and giving we retain The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot. Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine; Brightens for ornament, and whets for use.
Página 175 - I endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.