Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton: With Numerous Extracts from Her Ms. Autobiography and Other Original Documents, Published in Vindication of Her Memory

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S. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1887 - 432 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 50 - She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Σελίδα 217 - Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, 'The night is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Σελίδα 344 - ... and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Σελίδα 431 - The above instrument, consisting of one sheet, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said 0 ohn Forsythe, as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
Σελίδα 396 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest From thy sorrow, and from thy fear, And from the hard bondage Wherein thou wast made to serve...
Σελίδα 431 - ... to be my last will and testament. As witness my hand and seal this twenty first day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty five (1785).
Σελίδα 201 - It is asthma from which he chiefly suffers now; but they say this can only be a symptom, and not the disease. He is frightfully reduced in size and strength; sure am I that could you see him, you would not find even a distant resemblance to the being who, exactly three months ago, left us in all the pride of youth, health and strength. Day by day I lose hope, and so, I am quite sure, do his physicians; we have had three consultations, but nothing prescribed relieves him, nor has any light been thrown...
Σελίδα 201 - My poor darling lies in a state that defies the views of his physicians as effectually as it puzzles my ignorance. It is asthma from which he chiefly suffers now ; but they say this can only be a symptom, and not the disease. He is frightfully reduced in size and strength ; sure...
Σελίδα 344 - And the said covenantor doth hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, and. administrators, covenant, promise, and agree with and to the said covenantee, his heirs and assigns, in manner following ; (that is to say,) 2.
Σελίδα 374 - But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as by want of Heart.

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