The matchmaker, by the author of 'Cousin Geoffrey'. |
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الصفحة 1
... matches to kindle a flame , and those who make matches which , alas ! often have the effect of extinguishing one . The reader may like to know of which species of matchmaker we are about to treat . not , ye worshippers of the Real ...
... matches to kindle a flame , and those who make matches which , alas ! often have the effect of extinguishing one . The reader may like to know of which species of matchmaker we are about to treat . not , ye worshippers of the Real ...
الصفحة 2
... matches for others , till , by crying them in clear and dulcet tones , she makes a great match for herself , and quits the scene , after seven volumes of romantic adven- ture , wedded to at least an earl ! Our matchmakers have a fancy ...
... matches for others , till , by crying them in clear and dulcet tones , she makes a great match for herself , and quits the scene , after seven volumes of romantic adven- ture , wedded to at least an earl ! Our matchmakers have a fancy ...
الصفحة 3
Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies. The poor matchmaker who cries matches in the streets is a more deserving and a far more blameless character than she who plans them in her silken boudoir , and makes them where the young and ... matches ...
Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies. The poor matchmaker who cries matches in the streets is a more deserving and a far more blameless character than she who plans them in her silken boudoir , and makes them where the young and ... matches ...
الصفحة 4
... matches she meditates , once made , all the world beside may be in full en- joyment of " single blessedness . " The matchmaker we speak of is generally a mother . Mothers are Nature's match- makers ; but , as with gamblers , repeated ...
... matches she meditates , once made , all the world beside may be in full en- joyment of " single blessedness . " The matchmaker we speak of is generally a mother . Mothers are Nature's match- makers ; but , as with gamblers , repeated ...
الصفحة 6
... match for herself . She married a gentleman - poor , but yet a gentleman . She then contrived to get her brothers allied to women of fortune , and afterwards , as they were vulgar , and " provided for , " she cut them . At the opening ...
... match for herself . She married a gentleman - poor , but yet a gentleman . She then contrived to get her brothers allied to women of fortune , and afterwards , as they were vulgar , and " provided for , " she cut them . At the opening ...
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الصفحة 46 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring, To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
الصفحة 222 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth ? Curse on his...
الصفحة 42 - I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
الصفحة 247 - MY birth-day" — what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears ! And how, each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears ! When first our scanty years are told, It seems like pastime to grow old ; And, as Youth counts the shining links. That Time around him binds so fast, Pleased with the task, he little thinks How hard that chain will press at last. Vain was the man, and false as vain, Who said* — "were he ordain'd to run " His long career of life again, . " He...
الصفحة 143 - Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train — Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme ; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
الصفحة 178 - The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul...
الصفحة 254 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
الصفحة 237 - Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with such jewels as the exploring Mind Brings from the caves of Knowledge, buy my ransom From those twin gaolers of the daring heart — Low Birth and iron Fortune.
الصفحة 273 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
الصفحة 7 - Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of Ills to come; Nor Care, beyond to-day! Yet see, how all around them wait The Ministers of human fate; And black Misfortune's baleful Train!