Lights on the Way: Some Tales Within a TaleChato and Windus, 1878 - 313 páginas |
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... sweet - brier relieve the land- scape ; and over all the deep - blue sky bends down , and the summits of the higher hills show snowy - white , or are rosy- flushed in the glowing warmth of sunset . 66 Our house stood , like a tired ...
... sweet - brier relieve the land- scape ; and over all the deep - blue sky bends down , and the summits of the higher hills show snowy - white , or are rosy- flushed in the glowing warmth of sunset . 66 Our house stood , like a tired ...
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... sweet placid old woman she might have been . The shining idol had fallen , crushing the hearts of the worshippers . whose seams were now protrusively gaping , like a drunkard's mouth , if lengthened monologue was to be tolerated . This ...
... sweet placid old woman she might have been . The shining idol had fallen , crushing the hearts of the worshippers . whose seams were now protrusively gaping , like a drunkard's mouth , if lengthened monologue was to be tolerated . This ...
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... sweet , still , native dignity , as of one of the old masters ' pictures showing itself notwithstanding the dusty adhesions and rude framing . The supper was set in the kitchen , which also served for parlour on occasion ; and it was ...
... sweet , still , native dignity , as of one of the old masters ' pictures showing itself notwithstanding the dusty adhesions and rude framing . The supper was set in the kitchen , which also served for parlour on occasion ; and it was ...
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... sweet that most country girls would not have seen that its sweetness proceeded mainly from looseness and want of character . But he was scarcely a month in the house ere he became mark- edly melancholy , and exhibited noticeable reserve ...
... sweet that most country girls would not have seen that its sweetness proceeded mainly from looseness and want of character . But he was scarcely a month in the house ere he became mark- edly melancholy , and exhibited noticeable reserve ...
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... sweet pain of love , " instead of an open , honest , steady de- votion to the sunny pleasures of the fleshly phases of passion . Such was the devotion of the ancients , but it was justified by honour , or what stood to them for honour ...
... sweet pain of love , " instead of an open , honest , steady de- votion to the sunny pleasures of the fleshly phases of passion . Such was the devotion of the ancients , but it was justified by honour , or what stood to them for honour ...
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admirers ALFRED CONCANEN artistic aunt Barford beautiful Boccaccio Calvinistic Carlyle Carlyle's Carry Carry's character Charlotte Brontë Chaucer Christian clear cloth extra colour confess critical Crown 8vo Dante dramatic Edited element English eyes face fact false fancy father Fcap feeling Felix Holt felt George Eliot gilt Gilworth girl Goethe ground hand healthy heart hope human humour idea individual intellect Jacob John JOHN SAUNders JUSTIN MCCARTHY Kitty Lady Betty looked matter mind Mistress moral mother mystical nature Nelly never night noticed novels once OUIDA Parlane peculiar Peg's perhaps Petrarch poems poet poetical poetry poor Portrait remark Sainte-Beuve seemed seen sense sentiment Shakespeare smile sometimes sort speak spirit story strange sweet sympathy Tennyson Thackeray thing thought tion true truth Vols walk weakness wholly WILKIE COLLINS WINDUS Winwood woman words write Wybrooke young
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