Comin' Thro' the Rye: A NovelD. Appleton & Company, 1876 - 251 pàgines |
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Pàgina 31
... waiting in the schoolroom for mother , who has gone with a serene front , but ( we believe ) trembling knees , to ask her lord and master's gracious consent to our setting out for Pimpernel Fair . She has been absent a quarter of an ...
... waiting in the schoolroom for mother , who has gone with a serene front , but ( we believe ) trembling knees , to ask her lord and master's gracious consent to our setting out for Pimpernel Fair . She has been absent a quarter of an ...
Pàgina 42
... waiting before the altar , book in hand , and looking decidedly cross , when the bride and bridegroom came in , followed by a few people . We couldn't see their faces , but there seemed something very wrong about the bridegroom's back ...
... waiting before the altar , book in hand , and looking decidedly cross , when the bride and bridegroom came in , followed by a few people . We couldn't see their faces , but there seemed something very wrong about the bridegroom's back ...
Pàgina 72
... waiting to have his body dissected . " Lovers ! " I say , shaking him by the arm , " oh ! what shall we do ? " Jack goes to the window . Below we hear the scraping of chairs , the rattle of plates ; the lamplight streams across the road ...
... waiting to have his body dissected . " Lovers ! " I say , shaking him by the arm , " oh ! what shall we do ? " Jack goes to the window . Below we hear the scraping of chairs , the rattle of plates ; the lamplight streams across the road ...
Pàgina 73
... waiting- maid to whom he attributes the ovation , he beholds me - night- gown , nightcap , open mouth , and all . He shakes his fist wildly at me , and the gesture breaks the spell . I turn to hide myself in bed , but before I can reach ...
... waiting- maid to whom he attributes the ovation , he beholds me - night- gown , nightcap , open mouth , and all . He shakes his fist wildly at me , and the gesture breaks the spell . I turn to hide myself in bed , but before I can reach ...
Pàgina 86
... waiting to be fetched out . This uncomfortable state of things having lasted for some time the female wit ( as is usual when things are at a dead lock ) comes to the rescue , and Madge Weston , a black - browed miss of twelve , rises ...
... waiting to be fetched out . This uncomfortable state of things having lasted for some time the female wit ( as is usual when things are at a dead lock ) comes to the rescue , and Madge Weston , a black - browed miss of twelve , rises ...
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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.