Temple Bar, Volumes 7-8George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1863 - English periodicals |
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... tell you how unhappy I have been . Mamma , mamma , what have I done to offend you Olivia Marchmont grasped the trembling hands uplifted entreatingly to her , and held them in her own , -held them as if in a vice . She stood thus , with ...
... tell you how unhappy I have been . Mamma , mamma , what have I done to offend you Olivia Marchmont grasped the trembling hands uplifted entreatingly to her , and held them in her own , -held them as if in a vice . She stood thus , with ...
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... tell , the base come- dies of guilt and falsehood they will act , for the love of eleven thousand a year ? And you think that he loves you ! Child , dupe , fool , are you weak enough to be deluded by a fortune - hunter's pretty pastoral ...
... tell , the base come- dies of guilt and falsehood they will act , for the love of eleven thousand a year ? And you think that he loves you ! Child , dupe , fool , are you weak enough to be deluded by a fortune - hunter's pretty pastoral ...
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... tell me this . It is you who have driven Mary March- mont from the home in which you should have sheltered and protected her ! You envied her , I suppose , -envied her the thousands which might have ministered to your wicked pride and ...
... tell me this . It is you who have driven Mary March- mont from the home in which you should have sheltered and protected her ! You envied her , I suppose , -envied her the thousands which might have ministered to your wicked pride and ...
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... tell the world that your kins- man Edward Dangerfield Arundel is a swindler and a traitor . " He strode out into the hall , leaving his cousin on the ground ; and she heard his voice outside the dining - room door making inquiries of ...
... tell the world that your kins- man Edward Dangerfield Arundel is a swindler and a traitor . " He strode out into the hall , leaving his cousin on the ground ; and she heard his voice outside the dining - room door making inquiries of ...
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... Tell Mrs. Marchmont that I shall not return to the Towers till I bring her stepdaughter with me , " he said to the groom ; and then , with- out stopping to utter another word , he shook the rein on his horse's neck , and galloped away ...
... Tell Mrs. Marchmont that I shall not return to the Towers till I bring her stepdaughter with me , " he said to the groom ; and then , with- out stopping to utter another word , he shook the rein on his horse's neck , and galloped away ...
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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...