Gale Middleton. By the author of 'Brambletye house'.1833 |
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... party is to be a musical soirée ; the names of the performers whom you are to engage will be sent to you to - morrow ; the list of the people to be invited will be drawn up by the Duchess and myself , with the ex- press understanding ...
... party is to be a musical soirée ; the names of the performers whom you are to engage will be sent to you to - morrow ; the list of the people to be invited will be drawn up by the Duchess and myself , with the ex- press understanding ...
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... party sufficiently clever to see through the designs and motives of the other , there was generally beneath the insidious smoothness of these inter- views with Lady Barbara an under - current of mutual taunts and retorts , rather ...
... party sufficiently clever to see through the designs and motives of the other , there was generally beneath the insidious smoothness of these inter- views with Lady Barbara an under - current of mutual taunts and retorts , rather ...
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... parties never passed his lips , and he not only refused to answer any interrogatories upon subject , but even commanded others , with a sternness foreign to his nature , to refrain from such questions , and to observe the profound the ...
... parties never passed his lips , and he not only refused to answer any interrogatories upon subject , but even commanded others , with a sternness foreign to his nature , to refrain from such questions , and to observe the profound the ...
Page 75
... party thus inculpated we are , however , bound to declare that these dark charges , or rather insinuations , when they came to be strictly investigated , could not be made to assume any tangible or definite form . Plausible enough to ...
... party thus inculpated we are , however , bound to declare that these dark charges , or rather insinuations , when they came to be strictly investigated , could not be made to assume any tangible or definite form . Plausible enough to ...
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... party on other accounts than the high rank of my visitants ; for I know that you doat upon music , though there are so few things in which you take plea- sure . " " Yes , Madam , I value it as an exquisite gratification , the more ...
... party on other accounts than the high rank of my visitants ; for I know that you doat upon music , though there are so few things in which you take plea- sure . " " Yes , Madam , I value it as an exquisite gratification , the more ...
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Page 277 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 262 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. — In everything we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold.
Page 219 - For the Man, Who, in this spirit, communes with the Forms Of Nature, who with understanding heart Doth know and love such Objects as excite No morbid passions, no disquietude, No vengeance, and no hatred, needs must feel The joy of that pure principle of Love So deeply, that, unsatisfied with aught Less pure and exquisite, he cannot choose But seek for objects of a kindred love In Fellow-natures and a kindred joy.
Page 179 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 57 - Let me shake off th' intrusive cares of day, And lay the meddling senses all aside. Where now, ye lying vanities of life! Ye ever-tempting ever-cheating train!
Page 171 - And following slower, in explosion vast, The Thunder raises his tremendous voice. At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts, And opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on...
Page 179 - From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 147 - Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
Page 76 - By a daisy, whose leaves spread, Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me Than all Nature's beauties can In some other wiser man.
Page 145 - ... careless season Spite of melancholy reason, Will walk through life in such a way That, when time brings on decay, Now and then I may possess Hours of perfect gladsomeness, — Pleased by any random toy ; By a kitten's busy joy, Or an infant's laughing eye Sharing in the ecstasy...