Agnes de Mansfeldt: A Historical Tale, Τόμος 1Saunders and Otley, 1836 - 387 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα iii
... diplomacy -- they show a simili . tude so marvellous , that it seems as if the master spirits of this age were forced to model their course on the errors of one which , in common cases , they no doubt abhor INTRODUCTORY . iii.
... diplomacy -- they show a simili . tude so marvellous , that it seems as if the master spirits of this age were forced to model their course on the errors of one which , in common cases , they no doubt abhor INTRODUCTORY . iii.
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... master ? ” replied the crone , with a keen and crafty tone of voice , that seemed at once to admit and justify an un- acknowledged object . " What if I had some cause beyond an old wife's gossiping , for seek- ing to know the Duchess ...
... master ? ” replied the crone , with a keen and crafty tone of voice , that seemed at once to admit and justify an un- acknowledged object . " What if I had some cause beyond an old wife's gossiping , for seek- ing to know the Duchess ...
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... Master Porter , " said she , moving under the porch the while , " you put me to shame by your civilities , for I cannot accept them ; half , as it were , by reason of my own un worthiness , and the other half from the pressing necessity ...
... Master Porter , " said she , moving under the porch the while , " you put me to shame by your civilities , for I cannot accept them ; half , as it were , by reason of my own un worthiness , and the other half from the pressing necessity ...
Σελίδα 8
... " replied the old woman , coldly , while she replaced the purse in her girdle . " No , Master Porter , no . Such snail's - pace , round - about proceedings are not of fitting gait for the rapid flow of hot 8 AGNES DE MANSFELDT .
... " replied the old woman , coldly , while she replaced the purse in her girdle . " No , Master Porter , no . Such snail's - pace , round - about proceedings are not of fitting gait for the rapid flow of hot 8 AGNES DE MANSFELDT .
Σελίδα 9
... Master Porter , no ! and good day to you . " " Nay , nay , go not away in pique or un- kindness , good dame , " said the porter , alarmed at the threatened loss of his vails , and laying a gentle hand on his companion's cloak , with a ...
... Master Porter , no ! and good day to you . " " Nay , nay , go not away in pique or un- kindness , good dame , " said the porter , alarmed at the threatened loss of his vails , and laying a gentle hand on his companion's cloak , with a ...
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Σελίδα 199 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Σελίδα 226 - Mr. Bulwer's * Pilgrims of the Rhine* is a work which will delight the fanciful and imaginative, please the refined and philosophical, charm the gay, inform the intellectual, and absorb the feeling."— Literary Gazette. " We cannot help expressing our admiration of the taste and skill with which Mr. Bulwer has arranged his materials."—Athen&um. l* Mr. Bulwer'a splendid * Pilgrims of the Rhine' is a work of rich fancy, and full of those dreams which genius alone cau invest with reality."—Time*.
Σελίδα 109 - And oh, may they learn to know what it is makes happiness ! that it does not consist, as too many fancy, in the imagination of .some good too distant to be reached — too large to be encircled in our hold, but that it is really formed of little things, flowers and sweets, that we never stay to notice in the...
Σελίδα 135 - The sense of enjoyment is proportioned to the vivacity of the mind, and the thousand freshspringing sources of pleasure open to the more susceptible among human beings, far outbalance the power of that morbid tone of suffering which weighs down the dull.