Historical romances of the author of Waverley, المجلد 3 |
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الصفحة 8
... hope that the va- nity of superior knowledge - a sin with which those who have made proficiency in learning are most frequently beset - has not led you into the awful hazard of listening to the dangerous doctrines which are now afloat ...
... hope that the va- nity of superior knowledge - a sin with which those who have made proficiency in learning are most frequently beset - has not led you into the awful hazard of listening to the dangerous doctrines which are now afloat ...
الصفحة 19
... hope beyond the grave ! Man awakes to joy or sorrow ; Ours the sleep that knows no morrow . This is all that I can show- This is all that thou mayst know . " The White Lady paused , and seemed to await an answer ; but , as Halbert ...
... hope beyond the grave ! Man awakes to joy or sorrow ; Ours the sleep that knows no morrow . This is all that I can show- This is all that thou mayst know . " The White Lady paused , and seemed to await an answer ; but , as Halbert ...
الصفحة 21
... lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race , To whom God has granted grace To read , to fear , to hope , to pray , To lift the latch , and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born , Who read THE MONASTERY . 21.
... lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race , To whom God has granted grace To read , to fear , to hope , to pray , To lift the latch , and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born , Who read THE MONASTERY . 21.
الصفحة 38
... her old friend , who could for an instant doubt the heartiness of her welcome to him and to his hope- ful daughter ; and then to think of his going back to John Broxmouth's , when the auld tower stood where 38 THE MONASTERY .
... her old friend , who could for an instant doubt the heartiness of her welcome to him and to his hope- ful daughter ; and then to think of his going back to John Broxmouth's , when the auld tower stood where 38 THE MONASTERY .
الصفحة 45
... hope and his hounds . I have heard them baying in the glen all day . " " And if I had heard that music , " said the Miller , " it would have done my heart good , ay , and may be taken me two or three miles out of my road . When I was ...
... hope and his hounds . I have heard them baying in the glen all day . " " And if I had heard that music , " said the Miller , " it would have done my heart good , ay , and may be taken me two or three miles out of my road . When I was ...
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الصفحة 242 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 352 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
الصفحة 13 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
الصفحة 57 - ... and inevitably-necessary-to-be-remembered manual of all that is worthy to be known — which indoctrines the rude in civility, the dull in intellectuality, the heavy in jocosity, the blunt in gentility, the vulgar in nobility, and all of them in that unutterable perfection of human utterance, that eloquence which no other eloquence is sufficient to praise, that art which, when we call it by its own name of Euphuism, we bestow on it its richest panegyric.
الصفحة 53 - Euphues and his England, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and reputation. The quaint, forced, and unnatural style which he introduced by his Anatomy of Wit...
الصفحة 330 - Shafton when he looked elsewhere, and were dropped at once when they encountered his, that she was irresistible ! In fine, the affectionate delicacy of her whole demeanour, joined to the promptitude and boldness she had so lately evinced, tended to ennoble the services she had rendered, as if some sweet engaging Grace Put on some clothes to come abroad, And took a waiter's place.
الصفحة 386 - ... he never would take money for them, and that I should have the whole advantage of all he wrote. This declaration became morally void when the question was about thousands, instead of a few hundreds ; and I perfectly agree with the admired and admirable Author of Waverley, that « the wise and good accept not gifts which are made in heat of blood, and which may be after repented of.
الصفحة 299 - should be removed to hallowed ground, and his soul secured by the prayers of the Church in his behalf." Grief would have its natural course, and the voice of the comforter was wasted in vain.