Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1818 |
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... echoed the General . " Such a blow ! " reverberated Mrs. Finch . " The most doating husband ! I may say he lived but in my sight . Such a man ! " " Such a man ! " said the Duke . ral . " Such a man ! " exclaimed the 6 MARRIAGE .
... echoed the General . " Such a blow ! " reverberated Mrs. Finch . " The most doating husband ! I may say he lived but in my sight . Such a man ! " " Such a man ! " said the Duke . ral . " Such a man ! " exclaimed the 6 MARRIAGE .
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... exclaimed the Gene- " Oh ! such a man ! " sobbed Mrs. Finch , as she complacently dropped a few tears . At that moment , sacred to tender remem- brance , the door opened , and Mrs. Downe Wright was announced . She entered the room as if ...
... exclaimed the Gene- " Oh ! such a man ! " sobbed Mrs. Finch , as she complacently dropped a few tears . At that moment , sacred to tender remem- brance , the door opened , and Mrs. Downe Wright was announced . She entered the room as if ...
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... - an occasion , indeed , that called for sympathy . " " A most melancholy occasion ! " said the Duke . " A most distressing occasion ! " exclaim- ed the General . " Never was greater occasion ! " moaned Mrs. Finch 10 MARRIAGE .
... - an occasion , indeed , that called for sympathy . " " A most melancholy occasion ! " said the Duke . " A most distressing occasion ! " exclaim- ed the General . " Never was greater occasion ! " moaned Mrs. Finch 10 MARRIAGE .
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... exclaimed her companion , " is this the only effect Matilda's moan ' has produced upon you ? I expected your taste for grief would have been highly gratified by this affecting representation . " دو " My appetite , you ought rather to ...
... exclaimed her companion , " is this the only effect Matilda's moan ' has produced upon you ? I expected your taste for grief would have been highly gratified by this affecting representation . " دو " My appetite , you ought rather to ...
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... exclaimed Lady Emily ; " can I credit my ears ? Love ! did you say ? I thought that had only been for naughty ones , such as me ; and that saints like you would have married for any thing and every thing but love ! Prudence , I thought ...
... exclaimed Lady Emily ; " can I credit my ears ? Love ! did you say ? I thought that had only been for naughty ones , such as me ; and that saints like you would have married for any thing and every thing but love ! Prudence , I thought ...
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Adelaide Adelaide's admiration affection assure aunt Grizzy Beech Park better Bluemits brooch certainly charms Colonel Lennox colour cousin cried Lady Emily daugh daughter dear Mary declare dinner Doctor doubt Downe Wright dress Duchess of Altamont Duke of Altamont Emily's exclaimed eyes faults feel fortune Glenfern going Grace Griz Grizzy's hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope husband idea Lady Ju Lady Juliana Lady Maclaughlan Lady Matilda Ladyship Lochmarlie look Lord Glenallan Lord Lindore lover marriage married Mary felt Mary's ment mind Miss Douglas Miss Grizzy Miss Jacky mother nature neral ness never Nicky niece occasion passed passion pleasure poor Pullens Redgill Rose Hall seemed sentiments shew shirt-buttons sigh Sir Sampson sister smile soon sort soul spirit stupid sure sweet talk taste tears tell ther there's thing thought tion turned virtue wish wonder young
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Page 54 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 181 - I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear. She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 60 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 94 - A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god; Affects to nod And seems to shake the spheres.
Page 239 - And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb...
Page 239 - As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.
Page 58 - ... full glory, either at the rising or setting of it, he would be so transported and amazed, and so admire the glory of it, that he would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object to behold all the other various beauties this world could present to him.
Page 175 - ... and be lord paramount over kitchen and larder. His disappointment was therefore great at finding all the solid joys of red deer and moorgame, kippered salmon and mutton hams, ' vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Page 56 - These, and many other field flowers, so perfumed the air, that I thought that very meadow like that field in Sicily, of which Diodorus speaks, where the perfumes arising from the place make all dogs that hunt in it to fall off and lose their scent.
Page 55 - ... then left me ; that he had a plentiful estate, and not a heart to think so ; that he had at this time many law-suits depending, and that they both damped his mirth, and took up so much of his time and thoughts, that he himself had not leisure to take the sweet content that I, who pretended no title to them, took in his fields...