Beauchamp: Or The Error, Volumen 2

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1848

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Página 205 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 121 - ... eyes of admiring thousands the works of the poet, or displayed the skill of the actor, has produced such deep tragedy as you. How often has the sight of the thin folded sheet, with its strange, crooked black hieroglyphics, overwhelmed the lightest and the gayest heart with heaviness and mourning ! how often changed the smile into the tear ! how often swept away the gay pageants of imagination, and memory, and hope, and left the past all darkness, and the future all despair ! But, on the contrary,...
Página 62 - No, hang me if I go to bed with such a morsel on my stomach." Then, putting it on the other side of the candle, and his glass to his eye, he read the contents. They did not seem to be palateable ; for the first sentence made him exclaim, " Pish! I know you my buck!" After this he read on again ; and, though he made no further exclamation, his brow became cloudy, and his eye anxious. When he had done, he threw it down, put his hands behind his back, and walked two or three times up and down the room,...

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