The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray ..., Volum 4Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 334 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Pàgina 305 - Though we must all die, as the woman of Tekoa said, and are as water spilt upon the ground...
Pàgina 28 - Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Pàgina 405 - The doctrine declared in the second commandment that the sins of the fathers shall be visited on the children was a matter of faith to those to whom it was given.
Pàgina 365 - O, sir, to wilful men, The injuries, that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters : Shut up your doors ; He is attended with a desperate train ; And what they may incense him to, being apt To have his ear abus'd, wisdom bids fear. Corn. Shut up your doors, my lord ; 'tis a wild night : My Regan counsels well : come out o
Pàgina 166 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Pàgina 304 - As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between thee and death!
Pàgina 414 - That, though he had heard his grandmother tell the story of Glanville passing the sentence on his own child, it was not, even in her time, considered true." Of Frank Glanville, one of the sons of the Judge, who is mentioned in the novel, so interesting a tale is told that, although a little longer than I could wish for a note, I cannot resist the desire I feel to give it.
Pàgina 216 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Pàgina 90 - My friend said he wu convinced he knew the author; and, taking one of my letters relative to our intended journey from his pocket, asked him if he did not recognise the writing." For I from fair to fair resort, And pay to each my amorous court, In hopes at last a maid to find, The best, the fairest of her kind. Thus from the hive the insect flies, And soars o'er flowers of thousand dyes : But, when the sweetest strikes his view, Ho shuts its wings, and sips its dew.