Cœlebs in search of a wife [by H. More].1880 |
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acquaintance admiration affection afraid allow amusement Aston Hall attention Barlow beauty believe Bible called Carlton character charity cheerful Christian Comfit confess conversation creature curricle daughters dear delight dinner divine divine grace doctrines duty elegant endeavour eternal evil excellent eyes father faults favour favourite fear feel Flam fondness girl give grace Grove habits happiness hear heard heart honour hope human husband indulgence James Blackwood labour Lady Aston Lady Belfield learning live look Lucilla manner marriage ment mind Miss Sparkes Miss Stanley moral mother nature never nosegay observed opinion passion persons Phoebe piety pious pleasure poet poor principle profession racter Ranby rapture religion religious replied Sappho Scripture seemed sense Sir John Belfield smiling soon spirit sure talents taste temper Temple of Friendship things thought tion truth Tyrrel vanity venture virtue whole wife wish woman young
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Página 236 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Página 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 180 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Página 9 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Página 11 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Página 213 - God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Página 64 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 223 - And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself; But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Página 218 - BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.