Fitzherbert; or, Lovers and fortune-hunters, by the authoress of 'The bride of Siena'. |
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... takes her leave , kindly greeting all expected and unexpected readers , and wishing " To each and all a long good night , And pleasant dreams , and slumbers light , " - or , what she owns she would prefer for them PREFACE . xi.
... takes her leave , kindly greeting all expected and unexpected readers , and wishing " To each and all a long good night , And pleasant dreams , and slumbers light , " - or , what she owns she would prefer for them PREFACE . xi.
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... light ! " LALLA ROOKH . Ir was with mingled feelings , but feelings in which satisfaction predominated , that Henry Fitzherbert reflected on the change which had taken place in his situation , when he found him- self alone in the ...
... light ! " LALLA ROOKH . Ir was with mingled feelings , but feelings in which satisfaction predominated , that Henry Fitzherbert reflected on the change which had taken place in his situation , when he found him- self alone in the ...
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... the coarsest of the sex . A few tufts of grey hair hereand there , which she carefully concealed , and an habitual tinge of light red in her nose , which she could not conceal , made her more anxious than ever to 28 FITZHERBERT .
... the coarsest of the sex . A few tufts of grey hair hereand there , which she carefully concealed , and an habitual tinge of light red in her nose , which she could not conceal , made her more anxious than ever to 28 FITZHERBERT .
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... light upon something better worth looking at than Miss Matthews , with all her finery . " So thought and so spake the worldly - minded , and the worldly - minded predominate wherever , whether in town or village , people herd toge- ther ...
... light upon something better worth looking at than Miss Matthews , with all her finery . " So thought and so spake the worldly - minded , and the worldly - minded predominate wherever , whether in town or village , people herd toge- ther ...
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... make her appear- ance , ―a keen easterly wind was blowing , and there was that harsh blue light common in such weather , and which that lady ever found pecu- liarly unbecoming . It was always the signal with her 58 FITZHERBERT .
... make her appear- ance , ―a keen easterly wind was blowing , and there was that harsh blue light common in such weather , and which that lady ever found pecu- liarly unbecoming . It was always the signal with her 58 FITZHERBERT .
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Angelina anguish Anne Aubrey awful beauty Belleterre bless blush Camilla Carlists caught charms cheek child Christchurch Clair Cleveland Abbey cold colour cousin dancing dear dearest death delighted devotion Dimsdale dress Emily Emily's Eton excited exclaimed eyes face fancy Fanny father fear feelings felt flung gazed gentle girl hair Hamilton House hand happy head heard heart Henry Fitzherbert Henry's honour hope horror hour hurried Hyacinthe Italy Julia lady laugh letter lips livan looked madam mamma Marcia marriage Matthews Shuffle Matthews's ment Meredith mind misery Miss Harland Miss Mat Miss Matthews Miss St mother Naples never Otium Oxford pale passion Piccoletto poor pretty quadrille racter rapture Richard rose round scene seemed Sir Herbert Sir James sister smile Spain spirit Sullivan tears tell terton thought Timewell trembling voice watched wish woman wretched young
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Página 186 - 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.
Página 46 - An honest man's the noblest work of God.' And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!
Página 128 - Now the tir'd hunter winds a parting note, And Echo bids good-night from every glade ; Yet wait awhile, and see the calm leaves float Each to his rest beneath their parent shade.
Página 274 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 186 - 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.
Página 203 - Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Página 155 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers, and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your Grace
Página 8 - Muse's seats, Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids ! Unlock your springs, and open all your shades. GRANVILLE commands; your aid, O Muses, bring! § What Muse for GRANVILLE can refuse to sing? The Groves of Eden...
Página 138 - This is the desert, this the solitude: How populous, how vital is the grave! This is Creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom; The land of apparitions, empty shades! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance; the reverse is Folly's creed.
Página 55 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.