Comin' Thro' the Rye: A NovelD. Appleton & Company, 1876 - 251 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... wish the holidays would come , " says Milly , sighing . " Why should we have them in July instead of June ? It can't make any difference . " " Amberley is not going away for her holidays , " says Alice ; " her brother , who is sixty ...
... wish the holidays would come , " says Milly , sighing . " Why should we have them in July instead of June ? It can't make any difference . " " Amberley is not going away for her holidays , " says Alice ; " her brother , who is sixty ...
Pàgina 7
... wish that you could see her as she is at this moment , with the freshness of a wild rose in her exquisite cheeks , with the bloom of perfect health in her blue eyes , with the lovely severity of a sculptured Venus in the low white brow ...
... wish that you could see her as she is at this moment , with the freshness of a wild rose in her exquisite cheeks , with the bloom of perfect health in her blue eyes , with the lovely severity of a sculptured Venus in the low white brow ...
Pàgina 13
... wishes to know how she fares ,. drives through our hospitable gates , and in fear and trembling pulls the creaking body of our front - door bell , rusty with disuse as was ever that one belonging to poor , down - trodden , cowardly ...
... wishes to know how she fares ,. drives through our hospitable gates , and in fear and trembling pulls the creaking body of our front - door bell , rusty with disuse as was ever that one belonging to poor , down - trodden , cowardly ...
Pàgina 28
... wish we could do it faster and get away . This morning we are cudgelling our brains as usual to find a remark that shall be neither too fresh , nor too stale , nor too fami- liar , nor too dangerous , for ventilation , and every natural ...
... wish we could do it faster and get away . This morning we are cudgelling our brains as usual to find a remark that shall be neither too fresh , nor too stale , nor too fami- liar , nor too dangerous , for ventilation , and every natural ...
Pàgina 44
... wish your pa could see you , " says Dorley's deliberate voice , sounding more sweetly in my ears than ever did song of nightin- gale ; " ' ow he would whack you ? " my " I know he would , " I murmur indistinctly from the depths of ...
... wish your pa could see you , " says Dorley's deliberate voice , sounding more sweetly in my ears than ever did song of nightin- gale ; " ' ow he would whack you ? " my " I know he would , " I murmur indistinctly from the depths of ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
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.