The Canon's Ward, Volume 2

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Chatto and Windus, 1884

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Página 126 - ... ever take the trouble to invent letters for me, I should not be suffered to write to you thus, because it would seem unnatural. Alas ! they know not how gladly a wretch like me forgets himself) — The servant, I say, has broken something — some friend (as the phrase is) does not make his promised appearance, and consequently is not eye-witness of the unnecessary dishes which the family pretends to be able to afford; or some friend (again) drops in unexpectedly, and surprises the family with...
Página 173 - FORGET thee?" — If to dream by night, and muse on thee by day, If all the worship, deep and wild, a poet's heart can pay, If prayers in absence breathed for thee to Heaven's protecting power, If winged thoughts that flit to thee — a thousand in an hour, If busy Fancy blending thee with all my future lot, — If this thou call'st " forgetting," thou indeed shalt be forgot ! "Forget thee?
Página 242 - II. xxxi. It is very difficult for a person in my position to excuse without accusing himself, but I should like you to feel that Miss Gilbert's fortune has formed no part of her attraction for me. 1936 j. STAGGE Murder gone to Earth vi. She spoke with such venom that I remembered the good old French proverb of 'he who excuses, accuses himself.
Página 47 - The baby with its little nnweening mouth ; And those — and those — Dear hearts ! they have all come, And think me dead — me, who so know I'm living, The vitalest creature in this fleshly room. I part ; and with my spirit's eyes, full opened, Will look upon them. [Spirit parts from the body, and breathes upon their eyes. Patient be those tears, Fresh heart-dews, standing on these dear clay-moulds Of souls made of myself — made of us both ln the half-heavenly time.
Página 169 - And first behold this cordial Julep here, That flames and dances in its crystal bounds. With spirits of balm and fragrant syrups mixed ; Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thome In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up Joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Página 301 - Got. 365 The busiest men have always the most leisure ; and while discharging the multifarious duties of a parish priest and a guardian he found time for travelling.
Página 127 - ... some friend (again) drops in unexpectedly, and surprises the family with no more dishes upon the table than are necessary. Ye home-made wretches, ye ingenious inventors of ills, before ye suffer yourselves to be soured and made miserable, for the whole remainder of this Sunday, by some trifle or another, which does not deserve the name of accident, look here — behold, indeed, that misery of which your discontentedness complains ! Peep through the grate of this my only habitation, ye who have...
Página 284 - ... beaten because the referee was unfair.) 2 See FOR ONE'S PART. on one's shoulders adv. or adj. phr. In your care; as your responsibility. The success of the program rests on your shoulders. (The success of the program is your responsibility. You are responsible for making the program a success.) He acts as if he had the cares of the world on his shoulders.
Página 130 - ... they would confess it and forget it, and start free, instead of sending their good money after bad—how much happier would be this world of ours!

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