'Recommended to mercy' [by M.C. Houstoun]. |
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الصفحة 11
... I can- not afford to lose one look of the face I am so soon to leave . Call up all your courage : you were ever a brave woman . Do you remember ? - ? She laid her hand softly , but firmly , on " Recommended to Mercy . ” 11.
... I can- not afford to lose one look of the face I am so soon to leave . Call up all your courage : you were ever a brave woman . Do you remember ? - ? She laid her hand softly , but firmly , on " Recommended to Mercy . ” 11.
الصفحة 13
... woman , pale and thin and worn ; the dress was rich and flowing , and on her transparent hands bright gems were spark- ling . She was not beautiful , but had a sweet and melancholy face , that dwelt upon his reproachfully . He could not ...
... woman , pale and thin and worn ; the dress was rich and flowing , and on her transparent hands bright gems were spark- ling . She was not beautiful , but had a sweet and melancholy face , that dwelt upon his reproachfully . He could not ...
الصفحة 15
... woman con- tinuing patiently to bathe his clammy brow , and to administer the restoratives that had been prepared for him ; her gentle touch was better than medicine , recalling him to saner thoughts and softer feelings . ' My poor love ...
... woman con- tinuing patiently to bathe his clammy brow , and to administer the restoratives that had been prepared for him ; her gentle touch was better than medicine , recalling him to saner thoughts and softer feelings . ' My poor love ...
الصفحة 21
... woman whose existence I have embittered , and to the chil- dren whose opening years I have darkened with shame . Her young sister too - poor pretty Alice - methinks I see her now , and hear her beseeching voice , vainly imploring me to ...
... woman whose existence I have embittered , and to the chil- dren whose opening years I have darkened with shame . Her young sister too - poor pretty Alice - methinks I see her now , and hear her beseeching voice , vainly imploring me to ...
الصفحة 22
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. woman knew not how to break , and after a few moments he continued thus : ' My time is short , love , very short for all I have to do ; and I have much to say while power of speech is granted me . My words ...
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun. woman knew not how to break , and after a few moments he continued thus : ' My time is short , love , very short for all I have to do ; and I have much to say while power of speech is granted me . My words ...
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Alice Alice's angry Archery Arthur asceticism asked beauty better Brandreth breast breath called cheek child cold Colonel Thorn Colonel Thornleigh comfort cousin creature comforts cried daugh dear Dormer dread duty Edward Ellerton eyes face fancy father fear feel felt fingers forgive gentle gentle touch Gertrude girl hand happy hard heard heart Heaven Helen Helen loved Herbert honour hope husband India knew labour Lady Thornleigh Langton laugh leave lips listen looked marriage Mary Owen mind mother Nellie never night once pain pardon passed passion perhaps Philip Thornleigh pity pleasant poor pray Rector rich seemed shillings sight silent Sir Edgar Sir Philip sister smile sorrow stood sure Talmash tears tell thing Thornleigh Abbey thought tion tone truth turned Vaughan voice Warminster whispered wife wish woman women words young
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الصفحة 43 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
الصفحة 273 - THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
الصفحة 277 - I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
الصفحة 1 - Lydia's monarch should the search descend, By Solon caution'd to regard his end, In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise? From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv'ler and a show.
الصفحة 241 - Alas ! I have walked through life Too heedless where I trod ; Nay, helping to trample my fellow-worm, And fill the burial sod, Forgetting that even the sparrow falls Not unmarked of God...
الصفحة 68 - Twill ever stick, through malice of your own. Most hard! in pleasing your chief glory lies; And yet from pleasing your chief dangers rise : Then please the best; and know, for men of sense. Your strongest charms are native innocence.
الصفحة 241 - I drank the richest draughts ; And ate whatever is good — Fish, and flesh, and fowl, and fruit, Supplied my hungry mood ; But I never...
الصفحة 63 - To bear those labours, which our fathers bore, That crown withheld, which they in triumph wore? When with much pains this boasted learning's got, 'Tis an affront to those who have it not.
الصفحة 68 - When kind, most cruel ; when oblig'd the most, The least obliging; and by favours lost. Cruel by nature, they for kindness hate ; And scorn you for those ills themselves create. If on your fame our sex a blot has thrown, 'Twill ever stick, through malice of your own.