The Ladies' CompanionBradbury and Evans, 1861 |
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Σελίδα 3
... strange what we may read , not in individual features , but in their conjuncture and expression . In- dividual features tell little of what life has made a man . They may betoken natural capacities and susceptibilities . They may ...
... strange what we may read , not in individual features , but in their conjuncture and expression . In- dividual features tell little of what life has made a man . They may betoken natural capacities and susceptibilities . They may ...
Σελίδα 4
... strange a tone , as if part of a mysterious soliloquy , that I could not help regarding my fellow - traveller with a look of severe scrutiny , which he per- ceiving soon disarmed . Assuming a familiar and kindly tone , he inquired how ...
... strange a tone , as if part of a mysterious soliloquy , that I could not help regarding my fellow - traveller with a look of severe scrutiny , which he per- ceiving soon disarmed . Assuming a familiar and kindly tone , he inquired how ...
Σελίδα 6
... strange con- tractive motion in the copse , which protruded where there ought to have been the left corner of an upper lip , had the effect of a smile . Sound apart , a general move among the branches , from the nose downwards ...
... strange con- tractive motion in the copse , which protruded where there ought to have been the left corner of an upper lip , had the effect of a smile . Sound apart , a general move among the branches , from the nose downwards ...
Σελίδα 7
... strange influence which gilds even danger with a fascination that leads us to pursue it for its own sake . In strange contradiction to my former easily - excited alarm , I began to hope that there might be something underneath all this ...
... strange influence which gilds even danger with a fascination that leads us to pursue it for its own sake . In strange contradiction to my former easily - excited alarm , I began to hope that there might be something underneath all this ...
Σελίδα 9
... strange city , and you are as little affected by compunction as a professed detective . I re- solved upon bold measures , and in pursuance thereof marched straight up to the gate , and had one leg within the wicket before the star ...
... strange city , and you are as little affected by compunction as a professed detective . I re- solved upon bold measures , and in pursuance thereof marched straight up to the gate , and had one leg within the wicket before the star ...
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AIGUILLETTE Alice amongst arms asked beautiful better Biot black lace bright Caersws called cathedral Catherine catkins Charter House child Christmas church colour Creswell crochet dark daughter dear Donatello door dress Dulcken Emmy England eyes face father Faversham fear feel felt Ferroll flowers gentleman George Eliot girl give green hand happy head hear heard heart hope husband Janet Kirkbridge knew lady leave light living London look mamma marriage Meyerbeer mind Miss morning mother nature never night once passed pleasant Polby poor present pretty racter round seemed seen side Silas Marner smile speak Stephanie stitch story sure sweet tell thing Thomas Sutton thou thought tion told trees turned Tuxford voice walk watched wife window woman words young
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Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 143 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 234 - They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the great wave that echoes round the world...
Σελίδα 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...