The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & RomanceGeo. Henderson, 1867 - Fashion |
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... woman , in whom so much of the hereafter of Grantley is to be wrapped up . My friends will remember that some chapters ago I described this woman deliberating as to what her future life was to be , in the midst of her misery , and how ...
... woman , in whom so much of the hereafter of Grantley is to be wrapped up . My friends will remember that some chapters ago I described this woman deliberating as to what her future life was to be , in the midst of her misery , and how ...
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... woman might be an adventuress : it might , after all , be but some clever " plant . " Long experience had taught Lawrence Hilton to be cautious . ' It will be a risk , a very great risk , my dear Madame , and I must test your powers ...
... woman might be an adventuress : it might , after all , be but some clever " plant . " Long experience had taught Lawrence Hilton to be cautious . ' It will be a risk , a very great risk , my dear Madame , and I must test your powers ...
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... woman in his tone , " but you will , perhaps , pardon me when I say that I am very much concerned for your lonely and friendless condition in London . I know the feeling myself . I was once a poor , friend- less man , without a soul to ...
... woman in his tone , " but you will , perhaps , pardon me when I say that I am very much concerned for your lonely and friendless condition in London . I know the feeling myself . I was once a poor , friend- less man , without a soul to ...
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... woman , whom he knew he was devoting to a life - long misery . All the actors in that eruel ceremony are dead now , save himself and Nathalie ; and , horrible thought ! she lives only for vengeance - all her love for him curdled into ...
... woman , whom he knew he was devoting to a life - long misery . All the actors in that eruel ceremony are dead now , save himself and Nathalie ; and , horrible thought ! she lives only for vengeance - all her love for him curdled into ...
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... woman stoops to folly , " or , in his own sweet unworldly simplicity , he saw not actual but ideal life ; for certainly , in this our day , the " lovely woman " tries every art to wring her lover's bosom but dying . 66 of knowing that ...
... woman stoops to folly , " or , in his own sweet unworldly simplicity , he saw not actual but ideal life ; for certainly , in this our day , the " lovely woman " tries every art to wring her lover's bosom but dying . 66 of knowing that ...
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Page 20 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 170 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 44 - New mercies each returning day Hover around us while we pray — New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
Page 19 - TO THE MUSES. WHETHER on Ida's shady brow Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the Sun, that now From ancient melody have ceased ; Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 1 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 125 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Page 74 - Tis the Spring's largess, which she scatters now To rich and poor alike, with lavish hand, Though most hearts never understand To take it at God's value, but pass by The offered wealth with unrewarded eye.
Page 83 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 61 - Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 74 - When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book.