Blondelle: A Story of the Day1852 - 314 páginas |
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... seen it , therefore we cannot say that it was at their recommendation that it has been published . Here is our story , and if any one who may chance to read it should not disapprove thereof , we owe that kind reader no apology . If , on ...
... seen it , therefore we cannot say that it was at their recommendation that it has been published . Here is our story , and if any one who may chance to read it should not disapprove thereof , we owe that kind reader no apology . If , on ...
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... seen happiness sacrificed to a good match . Therefore do not blame us , if to announce an event so important in the annals of the world , at any rate the civilized world , as the marriage of a Cornish baronet , we should have given up ...
... seen happiness sacrificed to a good match . Therefore do not blame us , if to announce an event so important in the annals of the world , at any rate the civilized world , as the marriage of a Cornish baronet , we should have given up ...
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... Dudley , ( known by her friends as Polly Dudley ) whom you may have seen driving them , while taking your airing on the banks of the Serpentine . Nay , that handsome young Finn , the banker , can tell you to what BLONDELLE . 35.
... Dudley , ( known by her friends as Polly Dudley ) whom you may have seen driving them , while taking your airing on the banks of the Serpentine . Nay , that handsome young Finn , the banker , can tell you to what BLONDELLE . 35.
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... seen the heiresses that evangelical clergymen manage to allure by their sermons , and does not the serious butler often contrive to secure himself an honourable retirement ? However , in this instance the young guards- man turned his ...
... seen the heiresses that evangelical clergymen manage to allure by their sermons , and does not the serious butler often contrive to secure himself an honourable retirement ? However , in this instance the young guards- man turned his ...
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... seen the result of marriages otherwise solemnized ? In your knowledge of society , have you never seen the seventh commandment broken by persons wedded according to the Gallic principle , “ de convenance ? " And can you forget that the ...
... seen the result of marriages otherwise solemnized ? In your knowledge of society , have you never seen the seventh commandment broken by persons wedded according to the Gallic principle , “ de convenance ? " And can you forget that the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affection amusement appearance aunt beauty behold Blondelle Brooke Blondelle's boffer bride Brooke's Charles Dalrymple Charley cheek child Connell conversation cousin dance daughter dear Dighton door Emmeline Emmeline's endeavoured fear feel felt gazed give golden plate grief hair hand happiness heard heart holy honour hopes husband kiss knew Lady Brooke Lady Trevethen lives London look Lord Doveton lover Madam Malta marriage marry Mary Archer mind Miss Blondelle Miss Brookes mistress Moody mother never night once ourselves passed passion perhaps poet poor Blondelle poor girl pray quadrille retired Rhadamanthus Rompf round scene seen Sir Basil Brooke Sir Guy Trevethen Sir Guy's sister smile Smirke smoking smoking cap society soft sound stood tell things thought tion told Trevor Trimmer turn voice watched wend wife wish woman women words young ladies youth
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Página 104 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Página 213 - Roll'd in one another's arms, and silent in a last embrace. Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth ! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Página 22 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 32 - Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Página 50 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Página 15 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Página 51 - And vex'd with mirth the drowsy ear of Night. Ah, me ! in sooth he was a shameless wight, Sore given to revel and ungodly glee ; Few earthly things found favour in his sight Save concubines and carnal companie, And flaunting wassailers of high and low degree.
Página 293 - But is he gone ? and live I rhyming here, As if some Muse would listen to my lay, When all distuned sit wailing for their dear,* And bathe the banks where he was wont to play ? Dwell thou in endless light, discharged soul, Freed now from Nature's and from Fortune's trust ! While on this fluent globe my glass shall roll, And run the rest of my remaining dust.
Página 49 - ... carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God; duly considering the causes for which Matrimony was ordained.
Página 59 - Whole without stooping, towering crest and all, My pleasures too begin. But me perhaps The glowing hearth may satisfy...