Bentley's Miscellany, Band 60Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1866 |
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... replied she , casting another scrutinising glance at the half - closed door , as if by so doing her eagle eyes could penetrate the boards and discover the intruder . " Shall I bring it in , sir ? " " Here is another poser ! " thought ...
... replied she , casting another scrutinising glance at the half - closed door , as if by so doing her eagle eyes could penetrate the boards and discover the intruder . " Shall I bring it in , sir ? " " Here is another poser ! " thought ...
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... replied the pert Abigail , as , with a sniff expressive of unsatisfied curiosity , she prepared to descend the stairs , casting as she did so a last rapid glance over the room , as if to impress its contents on the tablet of her memory ...
... replied the pert Abigail , as , with a sniff expressive of unsatisfied curiosity , she prepared to descend the stairs , casting as she did so a last rapid glance over the room , as if to impress its contents on the tablet of her memory ...
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... replied , hurriedly , to the effect that she had not sufficient money to meet so large a claim , whilst Miss Saunders began a rambling statement , in which the name of Mr. Elliott was frequently invoked . The bailiff listened to it all ...
... replied , hurriedly , to the effect that she had not sufficient money to meet so large a claim , whilst Miss Saunders began a rambling statement , in which the name of Mr. Elliott was frequently invoked . The bailiff listened to it all ...
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... replied Mrs. Charlton ; " they are all in Paris now , and are coming home rather sooner than we expected ; that is to say , they are coming to England , but I cannot say when we shall get Adelaide home , for her brother - in - law seems ...
... replied Mrs. Charlton ; " they are all in Paris now , and are coming home rather sooner than we expected ; that is to say , they are coming to England , but I cannot say when we shall get Adelaide home , for her brother - in - law seems ...
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... replied her aunt ; " but he is little more than a boy , and will get over it ; and , at all events , it can do no good to torment Laura . She is not the first girl by a good many who has changed her mind . By the way , although you make ...
... replied her aunt ; " but he is little more than a boy , and will get over it ; and , at all events , it can do no good to torment Laura . She is not the first girl by a good many who has changed her mind . By the way , although you make ...
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Adelaide admiration appeared asked aunt Aylesford baronet beautiful Bedouins Bourbon Brighton called Captain Chetwynde Captain Fanshaw Captain Travers carriage Charlwood Clarence Cliff Cottage Colonel Home companion Cousin Geoffrey cress cried daughter David dear door Dormer dress Estelle Everheart exclaimed eyes fancy fear feel felt followed fortune France fungi gentleman girl give glance hand happy heard heart hope horse hour husband Jodrell knew La Hogue Lady Danvers laughing Laura leave Little Gull look Lucetta M'Cormic Mainwaring marriage matter morning mushrooms never night Old Court once Osbert party passed Pierrepont Plessets poor Portslade pretty Prince of Orange Rainald rejoined remarked replied round scarcely seemed seen Sir Hugh smile soon sure Sybella tell Theodosia thing thought Titine told took turned watercress wife wine wish woman yachts young ladies
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Seite 172 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Seite 174 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Seite 389 - The whole employ of body and of mind. All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; On...
Seite 388 - Tut, man ! one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessened by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning ; One desperate grief cures with another's languish : Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
Seite 62 - Florence would have had another prosperous Lord Mayor ; and the ten dumb centuries continued voiceless, and the ten other listening centuries (for there will be ten of them and more) had no Divina Commedia to hear!
Seite 613 - THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
Seite 60 - God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Seite 57 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Seite 174 - Of earth, but to despise. Opinion is the rate of things, From hence our peace doth flow; I have a better fate than kings, Because I think it so. When all the stormy world doth roar How unconcerned am I?
Seite 59 - And glories in her lovers' pains. With age she fades, each lover flies, Contemn'd, forlorn, she pines and dies. When Jove the Father's grief survey'd, And heard him Heav'n and Fate upbraid, Thus spoke the God. By outward show, Men judge of happiness and woe : Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct th' eternal will ? Seek virtue ; and, of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.