James Gordon's Wife: A Novel ...D. Appleton & Company, 1871 - 174 pages |
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... Nature is more wise than I : I will not tell you not to weep . ' 99 ALFRED TENNYSON . THE drawing - room , although small , was pret- ty and comfortable ; but it was lonely , with the loneliness of death . Beside the fire stood a large ...
... Nature is more wise than I : I will not tell you not to weep . ' 99 ALFRED TENNYSON . THE drawing - room , although small , was pret- ty and comfortable ; but it was lonely , with the loneliness of death . Beside the fire stood a large ...
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... natural appetite is none the less . " smiled . " Do you believe in ghosts ? " inquired James , addressing her again . " The bonâ - fide ghost , I mean the kind of thing that comes at night , in a white sheet , walks like the rustle of ...
... natural appetite is none the less . " smiled . " Do you believe in ghosts ? " inquired James , addressing her again . " The bonâ - fide ghost , I mean the kind of thing that comes at night , in a white sheet , walks like the rustle of ...
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... nature of that something ? " " I'll tell you what , Gabrielle , " pursued James , kindling into sudden warmth ; " such a death as you describe might be very pretty , and very sentimental , but it would also be very idle and very ...
... nature of that something ? " " I'll tell you what , Gabrielle , " pursued James , kindling into sudden warmth ; " such a death as you describe might be very pretty , and very sentimental , but it would also be very idle and very ...
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... nature with you . And I dare say that girls who are used to it , like it , and would like you all the better for it . " " But girls who are not used to it , dislike it , and would like me all the worse for it . Eh , Ga- brielle ? I ...
... nature with you . And I dare say that girls who are used to it , like it , and would like you all the better for it . " " But girls who are not used to it , dislike it , and would like me all the worse for it . Eh , Ga- brielle ? I ...
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... natural fire of his five - and - twenty years was flashing , for once in a way , from the recesses where that fire usually slumbered . He did not look at all like a philosopher , as he entered the inn - yard . But the gleam soon died ...
... natural fire of his five - and - twenty years was flashing , for once in a way , from the recesses where that fire usually slumbered . He did not look at all like a philosopher , as he entered the inn - yard . But the gleam soon died ...
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ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER ALFRED TENNYSON answered asked Barber battledore and shuttlecock beautiful believe better brielle By-the-by calm Charlie Godfrey Charlie's child Cissy Cissy's cousin dear delight door drawing-room dream Edgecumbe ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Euphrosyne Eversfield exclaimed eyes face fancy Farnley fear feel felt Gabri Gabrielle rose Gabrielle's girl glad glanced gone half hand happy head hear heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hope hour Ianthe James James's knew Lady Louisa laughing look Lord Joseph Lorton Marian married Meddiscombe Miss Featherstone Miss Gordon Miss Wynn Morris Olivia once opened paused perhaps poor pretty Raynton replied returned rose Rotherbridge seemed sigh silent smile sorry soul spoke stood suppose sure sweet talk tell Thank thing thought tired told tone turned voice walked watch wife WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wish wonder young
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Page 133 - N., to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 28 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 25 - Nay! not so much as out of bed; When all the birds have matins said, And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Page 92 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Page 67 - In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look ; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah ! would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy! But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? To know the change and feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steal it — Was never said in rhyme.
Page 105 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 73 - BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;— Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!
Page 92 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Page 133 - THE voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding-day, The primal marriage blessing, It hath not passed away. Still in the pure espousal Of Christian man and maid, The holy Three are with us, The threefold grace is said.
Page 6 - ... thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star.