Toilers and Spinsters: And Other EssaysSmith, Elder, 1874 - 297 σελίδες |
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Antisthenes BARRY LYNDON blessing bright carriage Chawton cheerful child church comes comfort Cornhill Magazine creatures curtsey delightful dinner distant door dress Elizabeth Emma eyes face feeling five o'clock flowers friends friendship garden George Geith give green hair hand happy head hear heart heroines hospital Jane Austen ladies laughed light little boy little girl lives London look Lord Osborne Miss mistress mob-cap never night pain Pall Mall Gazette passed patients Pearman perhaps pinafores pleasant poor little Pride and Prejudice REBECCA AND ROWENA round says seems shining silent sister sitting sorrow speak spirit standing Steventon story Street Sunday sweet Swiss guard sympathy talk tell tender things told trees voice W. M. THACKERAY waiting weary woman women wonder words workhouse write young Zouaves
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Σελίδα 253 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born ; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawninoAnother blue Day: ' : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Σελίδα 236 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Σελίδα 291 - After these two noble fruits of friendship, (peace in the affections, and support of the judgment,) followeth the last fruit ; which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels ; I mean aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. Here the best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship, is to cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients, to say, that a friend is another himself; for...
Σελίδα 53 - I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. G-od forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives.
Σελίδα 210 - Is that enchanted moan only the swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay ? And hark the clock within, the silver knell Of twelve sweet hours that past in bridal white, And died to live, long as my pulses play ; But now by this my love has closed her sight And given false death her hand, and stol'n away To dreamful wastes where footless fancies dwell Among the fragments of the golden day.
Σελίδα 217 - I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
Σελίδα 59 - ... duty of us all; the peculiar duty of a young man who has been so fortunate as I have been in early preferment; and I trust I am resigned. Perhaps not the less so from feeling a doubt of my positive happiness had my fair cousin...
Σελίδα 54 - I believe you capable of everything good and great in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance so long as — if I may be allowed the expression — so long as you have an object; I mean while the woman you love lives and lives for you. All the privilege I claim far my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest when existence or when hope is gone.
Σελίδα 168 - This said, his powerful wand he waved anew : Instant, a glorious angel-train descends, The charities, to wit, of rosy hue : Sweet love their looks a gentle radiance lends, And with seraphic flame compassion blends. At once, delighted, to their charge they fly : When lo ! a goodly hospital ascends, In which they bade each human aid be nigh, That could the sick-bed smooth of that unhappy fry.
Σελίδα 49 - What if some writer should appear who can write so enchantingly that he shall be able to call into actual life the people whom he invents? What if Mignon, and Margaret, and Goetz von Berlichingen are alive now (though I don't say they are visible), and Dugald Dalgetty and Ivanhoe were to step in at that open window by the little garden yonder? Suppose...