Comin' Thro' the Rye: A NovelD. Appleton & Company, 1876 - 251 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... better than nothing , you know ! Here it is- Here lies the body of Helen Adair , ' Cruelly slain in the Flower of her Youth and Beauty , by Amberley's Nags . P.S. - Amberley's Nags were the only horses visible at her funeral , for she ...
... better than nothing , you know ! Here it is- Here lies the body of Helen Adair , ' Cruelly slain in the Flower of her Youth and Beauty , by Amberley's Nags . P.S. - Amberley's Nags were the only horses visible at her funeral , for she ...
Pàgina 19
... better . Can you keep a secret ? " ( holding my arm tight ) . “ Of course I can ! " I say indignantly ; and , extraordinary as such an assertion may appear from a female , I can . " Well , " says Jack deliberately , " if you're not ...
... better . Can you keep a secret ? " ( holding my arm tight ) . “ Of course I can ! " I say indignantly ; and , extraordinary as such an assertion may appear from a female , I can . " Well , " says Jack deliberately , " if you're not ...
Pàgina 27
... better were it for that luckless wight that he or she had never been born . I wonder if , when I am quite old , I shall ever be able to forget that awful sickening moment , when , having torn down the stairs at headlong speed , I found ...
... better were it for that luckless wight that he or she had never been born . I wonder if , when I am quite old , I shall ever be able to forget that awful sickening moment , when , having torn down the stairs at headlong speed , I found ...
Pàgina 30
... better than nothing , and when one has looked upon nothing but the face of one's own family for twelve months , anything is agreeable to the eye , and now that it seems to be receding in the distance Pimpernel Fair appears very ...
... better than nothing , and when one has looked upon nothing but the face of one's own family for twelve months , anything is agreeable to the eye , and now that it seems to be receding in the distance Pimpernel Fair appears very ...
Pàgina 32
... better observation of men and matters , we descend and find Amberley awaiting us in a green bonnet , and with a large smut on her nose . We admire the former , but are all much too delicate to point out the latter to her , so it goes to ...
... better observation of men and matters , we descend and find Amberley awaiting us in a green bonnet , and with a large smut on her nose . We admire the former , but are all much too delicate to point out the latter to her , so it goes to ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
afraid Amberley answer arms Basan beauty better breath cheeks comes crinoline dance dare dead dear Dolly door Dorley dress eyes face father feel Fleming flowers forget garden girls give goes good-bye gooseberry governor gown hair hand happy hard head hear heart Helen Adair hour kiss knew lady laughing leave lift lips live look lover Luttrell Manor House marriage married mind miserable Miss morning mother never night nosegay once pale papa passionate Paul Vasher Periwinkle poor pretty pretty woman round says Alice says George says Jack says Milly says Paul seems side sigh Silverbridge Silvia sisters Skipworth slowly smile soul sound speak stand suppose sure sweet talk tears tell Tempest thing thought to-day to-morrow treacle tarts turn voice walk Wattie Wattie's wife William Aldous wish woman wonder words young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 50 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Pàgina 444 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Pàgina 475 - Out, alas! she's cold; Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Pàgina 229 - ... from the North and from the South, from the East and from the West, all anxious to join as members of one nation for the good of our country.
Pàgina 393 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Pàgina 151 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pàgina 428 - Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Pàgina 3 - ... of reading the new works before they came out. In fine, I have never neglected any opportunity of improving my mind ; and the worst that can be...
Pàgina 284 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Pàgina 103 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.