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Page 129
... wishes for the safe delivery of the lady ; and , as she again thus earnestly ex- pressed herself , I did not fail to observe her voice grew tremulous , and methought her eyes grew bright with well - nigh starting tears . During the ...
... wishes for the safe delivery of the lady ; and , as she again thus earnestly ex- pressed herself , I did not fail to observe her voice grew tremulous , and methought her eyes grew bright with well - nigh starting tears . During the ...
Page 130
... wish to speak with her . " I believe , " said I , " you kindly recommended me to attend a patient whom I have just been visiting - a stranger lady now lodging with your sister in Sailsbury - street ? " " I did so , sir ; first , because ...
... wish to speak with her . " I believe , " said I , " you kindly recommended me to attend a patient whom I have just been visiting - a stranger lady now lodging with your sister in Sailsbury - street ? " " I did so , sir ; first , because ...
Page 132
... wishes for my welfare and quiet sleep , had concluded that as I had been up most of the night he would allow me to doze on . He did so until the Tron * had , as he was wont to express himself , " chappit twarl o ' the clock . " He then ...
... wishes for my welfare and quiet sleep , had concluded that as I had been up most of the night he would allow me to doze on . He did so until the Tron * had , as he was wont to express himself , " chappit twarl o ' the clock . " He then ...
Page 133
... wish that I should see the infant corpse . " Take the candle , Mrs. Parkins , " said the invalid , " and do show Dr. Kennyon the departed babe . Oh , my God , were I but with it ! " continued she , whilst those dark - blue eyes were ...
... wish that I should see the infant corpse . " Take the candle , Mrs. Parkins , " said the invalid , " and do show Dr. Kennyon the departed babe . Oh , my God , were I but with it ! " continued she , whilst those dark - blue eyes were ...
Page 134
... wish that I would pay them a visit whenever my leisure per- mitted . The more our acquaintance increased , the more I saw of them , the more I became convinced of their superiority . Little incidents con- firmed this opinion , and from ...
... wish that I would pay them a visit whenever my leisure per- mitted . The more our acquaintance increased , the more I saw of them , the more I became convinced of their superiority . Little incidents con- firmed this opinion , and from ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 427 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 146 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Page 489 - We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy.
Page 426 - Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...