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... Mother and Child are doing well : " By Mrs. Abdy : 70 My Way and Thine : By Merlin : 12 Night , The Last : By J. A .: 69 Pinturicchio : By J. A. Langford : 232 Retribution : By H. C .: 290 Retrospect , A : By P. L. N. : 27 Song : By ...
... Mother and Child are doing well : " By Mrs. Abdy : 70 My Way and Thine : By Merlin : 12 Night , The Last : By J. A .: 69 Pinturicchio : By J. A. Langford : 232 Retribution : By H. C .: 290 Retrospect , A : By P. L. N. : 27 Song : By ...
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... mother ! my mother ! And he , poor victim , what may not my deception bring upon him ? Though I be silent , my very silence is deceit . My every action would be deceit . Father , relieve me from the necessity of disobeying you ! Say you ...
... mother ! my mother ! And he , poor victim , what may not my deception bring upon him ? Though I be silent , my very silence is deceit . My every action would be deceit . Father , relieve me from the necessity of disobeying you ! Say you ...
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... mother's heart has yearned . Old man , the street - boy hath more need of watch and chain than you ! He is human , though poor . Perhaps he has a mother . At any rate , he had one at an earlier period of his career . Forgive him , then ...
... mother's heart has yearned . Old man , the street - boy hath more need of watch and chain than you ! He is human , though poor . Perhaps he has a mother . At any rate , he had one at an earlier period of his career . Forgive him , then ...
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... mother always sleeps ; but nowhere can she shake off her pain of expectation . In her own room , where Lucy's little bed stands out so distinctly , in its snowy whiteness , from the gathering gloom , her terror grows still more . To ...
... mother always sleeps ; but nowhere can she shake off her pain of expectation . In her own room , where Lucy's little bed stands out so distinctly , in its snowy whiteness , from the gathering gloom , her terror grows still more . To ...
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... mother was a widow ; her income was an easy one , but it would expire at her death . Mansel , however , had been ... mothers , each with several pretty daughters , who lived in a fashionable part of London , and whose houses were ...
... mother was a widow ; her income was an easy one , but it would expire at her death . Mansel , however , had been ... mothers , each with several pretty daughters , who lived in a fashionable part of London , and whose houses were ...
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Page 143 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Page 142 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 143 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 273 - Marner's face and figure shrank and bent themselves into a constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life, so that he produced the same sort of impression as a handle or a crooked tube, which has no meaning standing apart.
Page 210 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Page 159 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 150 - ... of supplicating terror, as perfectly overcame me. I immediately untied it, and restored it to life and liberty. The agonies of a prisoner at the stake, while the fire and instruments of...
Page 180 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Page 234 - They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the great wave that echoes round the world...
Page 245 - We are glad, the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present, and your pains, we thank you for : When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set. Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard...