Historical romances of the author of Waverley, المجلد 3 |
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الصفحة 9
... soon quarrelled with an occupation in which , without assiduity and un- remitted attention , no progress was to be expected . The Sub - Prior's visits were at irregular intervals , and often weeks would intervene between them , in which ...
... soon quarrelled with an occupation in which , without assiduity and un- remitted attention , no progress was to be expected . The Sub - Prior's visits were at irregular intervals , and often weeks would intervene between them , in which ...
الصفحة 13
... soon learn to read as well as you ; and - for I know a better teacher than your grim old Monk , and a better book than his printed breviary ; and since you like scholar - craft so well , Mary Avenel , you will see whether Edward or I ...
... soon learn to read as well as you ; and - for I know a better teacher than your grim old Monk , and a better book than his printed breviary ; and since you like scholar - craft so well , Mary Avenel , you will see whether Edward or I ...
الصفحة 15
... soon become wiser than Edward with all his pains ! Mary should see whether he alone is fit to be consulted , and to sit by her side , and hang over her as she reads , and point out every word and every letter . And she loves me better ...
... soon become wiser than Edward with all his pains ! Mary should see whether he alone is fit to be consulted , and to sit by her side , and hang over her as she reads , and point out every word and every letter . And she loves me better ...
الصفحة 35
... soon saw , was like to love dan- cing round a may - pole as well as managing a do- mestic establishment , and Halbert was like to break more heads than he would grind stacks of corn . But then a miller should always be of manly make ...
... soon saw , was like to love dan- cing round a may - pole as well as managing a do- mestic establishment , and Halbert was like to break more heads than he would grind stacks of corn . But then a miller should always be of manly make ...
الصفحة 44
... soon they were widows ; but that is not for the like of us . But touching my son Halbert , there is no fear of him ; for if it should be his mis- fortune to be in the like case , he has the best pair of heels in the Halidome , and could ...
... soon they were widows ; but that is not for the like of us . But touching my son Halbert , there is no fear of him ; for if it should be his mis- fortune to be in the like case , he has the best pair of heels in the Halidome , and could ...
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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.