Temple Bar, Volumes 7-8George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1863 - English periodicals |
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... hour of her agony . Her pride arose ; the defiant spirit of the fallen angel asserted its gloomy grandeur . " What have I done that I should suffer like this ? " she thought . " What am I that an empty - headed soldier should despise me ...
... hour of her agony . Her pride arose ; the defiant spirit of the fallen angel asserted its gloomy grandeur . " What have I done that I should suffer like this ? " she thought . " What am I that an empty - headed soldier should despise me ...
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... hours in each long summer's day Edward Arundel and Mary Marchmont could be happy together in spite of her . She came down - stairs , therefore , and renewed her watch , chaining her stepdaughter to her side , and interposing herself for ...
... hours in each long summer's day Edward Arundel and Mary Marchmont could be happy together in spite of her . She came down - stairs , therefore , and renewed her watch , chaining her stepdaughter to her side , and interposing herself for ...
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... hour by hour , she contrived to distress the gentle girl , who had so long obeyed her , now by a word , now by a look , but always with that subtle power of aggravation which women possess in such an eminent degree ; until Mary ...
... hour by hour , she contrived to distress the gentle girl , who had so long obeyed her , now by a word , now by a look , but always with that subtle power of aggravation which women possess in such an eminent degree ; until Mary ...
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... hour together . Mrs. Marchmont roamed from room to room upon this day , with a perpetual restlessness . Edward Arundel was to dine at the Towers , and was to sleep there after the ball . He was to drive his uncle over from Swampington ...
... hour together . Mrs. Marchmont roamed from room to room upon this day , with a perpetual restlessness . Edward Arundel was to dine at the Towers , and was to sleep there after the ball . He was to drive his uncle over from Swampington ...
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... hours afterwards , when the flats before the house were silvered by the moonlight , and the long ranges of windows glittered with the lamps within , Mrs. Marchmont emerged from her dressing- room another creature , as it seemed . Edward ...
... hours afterwards , when the flats before the house were silvered by the moonlight , and the long ranges of windows glittered with the lamps within , Mrs. Marchmont emerged from her dressing- room another creature , as it seemed . Edward ...
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Page 202 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains Of one Who Possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of "Boatswain," a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey Nov. 18, 1808.
Page 299 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice ; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to shew quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short ; or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 558 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 128 - I say, by God, that man is a ruffian who shall, after this, presume to build upon such honest, artless conduct as an evidence of guilt.
Page 499 - is almost out of print. Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery...
Page 297 - That your speech be with gravity, as one of the sages of the law : and not talkative, nor with impertinent flying out to show learning.
Page 201 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, November 18, 1808.
Page 499 - Science has succeeded to poetry no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? Think what you would have been now, if, instead of being fed with tales and old wives...
Page 297 - ... nicking a judge's tendency to make it serve his turn, and yet never failed to pay the greatest regard and deference to his opinion : for so they get credit; because the judge for the most part thinks that person the best lawyer that respects most his opinion. I have heard his lordship say that sometimes he hath been forced to give up a cause to the judge's opinion, when he...
Page 432 - So hath it perished like a thing of air, The dream of Love and Youth ! — Now both are grey, Yet still remembering that delightful day, Though Time with his cold touch...