The matchmaker, by the author of 'Cousin Geoffrey'. |
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الصفحة 23
... girls - was pleased at his desire , artfully instilled by the matchmaking mamma , to see one of them the choice of ... girl glides into the woman . Mr. Lindsay was a great observer of men and speculator on character ; but just when he ...
... girls - was pleased at his desire , artfully instilled by the matchmaking mamma , to see one of them the choice of ... girl glides into the woman . Mr. Lindsay was a great observer of men and speculator on character ; but just when he ...
الصفحة 24
... girls to have been able to take an extensive view of their natures . A kind and affluent rela- tive , always ready to promote pleasure and afford shelter from sorrow , was , of course , very dear to young hearts as yet untainted by the ...
... girls to have been able to take an extensive view of their natures . A kind and affluent rela- tive , always ready to promote pleasure and afford shelter from sorrow , was , of course , very dear to young hearts as yet untainted by the ...
الصفحة 26
Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies. with a tall , handsome , and nearly grown up girl ; but , during a long illness , he ... girls had received many hints and counsels from their mother , whose low birth caused her to look up to wealth and ...
Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies. with a tall , handsome , and nearly grown up girl ; but , during a long illness , he ... girls had received many hints and counsels from their mother , whose low birth caused her to look up to wealth and ...
الصفحة 29
... girls , of such diffe- rent styles , would fall violently in love with one . " A commonly pretty and moderately pleasing woman , " she said to herself , " seen in the beguiling intimacy of every day life , ever at hand to throw over the ...
... girls , of such diffe- rent styles , would fall violently in love with one . " A commonly pretty and moderately pleasing woman , " she said to herself , " seen in the beguiling intimacy of every day life , ever at hand to throw over the ...
الصفحة 31
... girl's life passed principally at Moss Grove Rectory , or Lind- say Hall , they had been lost as far as con- quests ... girls off . She knew how much opposition there is in man's stubborn heart - she knew that most men hate the ...
... girl's life passed principally at Moss Grove Rectory , or Lind- say Hall , they had been lost as far as con- quests ... girls off . She knew how much opposition there is in man's stubborn heart - she knew that most men hate the ...
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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!