Harry Disney, ed. [really written by] Atholl de Walden, Volume 2 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 155 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 3 - Fame! — if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Página 76 - You may train the eagle To stoop to your fist; Or you may inveigle The phoenix of the east; The lioness, ye may move her To give o'er her prey; But you'll ne'er stop a lover: He will find out his way.
Página 195 - Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Página 76 - ... from the day, Set a thousand guards upon her, Love will find out the way. Some think to lose him By having him confined ; And some do suppose him, Poor thing, to be blind; But if ne'er so close ye wall him, Do the best that you may, Blind love, if so ye call him, Will find out his way.
Página 38 - McWelder annually for some seven years presented her lord and iron-master with pledges of her love with the most painful punctuality, she naturally had little opportunity for idleness. When she wanted change of air, she was delighted with a tour in the Highlands, or with the shootingbox on her husband's moors ; and when she thought a little society would do her good, she and her husband took a house in Edinburgh for the winter. Neither their thoughts nor their ambition went beyond their being happy...
Página 39 - Welder, though they had been at school together and had learnt the Westminster Catechism together, to an extent not to be borne by human endurance. She took the pas of her on every occasion. She laughed at the people of Glasgow ; she ridiculed the clerical and legal society of Edinburgh ; she took her children from a Scotch boarding-school and sent them to...
Página 39 - Eugby ; she quitted the Free Church and became an Episcopalian ; she affected to talk English; and in short, she pooh-poohed everything and everybody about her. ' There was only one place to live in, and that was London,' she said over and over again to Mrs.
Página 114 - ... softened through the thinnest alabaster ; and, while every object in the room was distinctly and minutely visible, the effect of moonlight was not more soft and dreamy. The general form of the boudoir was an oval, but, within the pilasters of folded silk with their cornices of gold, lay crypts containing copies, exquisitely done in marble, of the most graceful statues of antiquity, one of which seemed, by the curtain...