Hostages to Fortune: A Novel, Volume 2Harper, 1875 - 159 páginas |
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Hostages to Fortune: A Novel : in Two Volumes, Volumes 1-2 Mary Elizabeth Braddon Visualização integral - 1875 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
answers asks baby better church Clitheroe comedy cries curate daughter dear dearest delight Dewrance dinner door drawing-room dress Eisteddfod ELEANOR'S VICTORY eridge exclaims eyes face fancy feeling FENTON'S QUEST friends Frivolity Fulham garden gentleman girl give gray Gredby half Hamilton Lyndhurst hand happy heart Heldenberg Herman Westray Hetheridge hills hope hour husband idea Illustrated James Payn Kensington Gore Kismet lady live Llandrysak Lochwithian London look Lord Earlswood lordship LOST FOR LOVE Lynd marriage married mind Miss Belormond Miss Morcombe morning Myra Brandreth Myra's never night novel Ostend pale papa perhaps Petherick play portmanteau pretty Priory R. D. Blackmore Redhill replies Ruth Ruth's says Editha says Herman seems Selina sigh smile squire Sunday sweet talk tell theatre thing thought tion to-morrow Westray's wife withian woman women wonder young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 9 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...
Página 137 - Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Página 66 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Página 69 - So, she leaning on her husband's arm, they turned homeward by a rosy path which the gracious sun struck out for them in its setting. And oh ! there are days in this life worth life and worth death.
Página 147 - Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his comfort ; swallowed his vows whole, pretending in her discoveries of dishonour : in few, bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet wears for his sake, and he, a marble to her tears, is washed with them, but relents not.
Página 159 - Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them — almost all women ; — a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to me only yesterday, ' I have just read So-and-So for the second time ' (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions).
Página 53 - And never yet, since high in Paradise O'er the four rivers the first roses blew, Came purer pleasure unto mortal kind Than lived thro' her, who in that perilous hour Put hand to hand beneath her husband's heart, And felt him hers again: she did not weep, But o'er her meek eyes came a happy mist Like that which kept the heart of Eden green Before the useful trouble of the rain...
Página 75 - Charles' speech to Angelina, in "The Elder Brother." We'll live together, like two neighbour vines, Circling our souls and loves in one another ! We'll spring together, and we'll bear one fruit ; One joy shall make us smile, and one grief mourn ; One age go with us, and one hour of death Shall close our eyes, and one grave make us happy.
Página 4 - Victoria. — Arzoomund. —The Birthday Present.— The Errand Boy. — The Orphan Boy.— The Two Sisters. — Julian Percival. — Edward Mansfield. — The Infirmary.
Página 4 - Mordaunt, &c. Vol. XIV. The Monk of Cimies; The Rosary, or Rosee of Montreux; The Roman Baths; Saint Hospice; The Violet Leaf; The Convent of St. Clair. Vol. XV. The History of Henry Milner, Part IV.; Sabbaths on the Continent; The Idler. Vol. XVI. John Marten.