Belgravia, Volume 35Willmer & Rogers, 1878 - English periodicals |
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... Lights were not uncommon this evening , but the nature of all of them was different from this . Discretion rather than terror prompted the boy to turn back instead of passing the light , with a view of asking Miss Eustacia Vye to ...
... Lights were not uncommon this evening , but the nature of all of them was different from this . Discretion rather than terror prompted the boy to turn back instead of passing the light , with a view of asking Miss Eustacia Vye to ...
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... light had gone , the rising dust had disappeared — he hoped for ever . He marched resolutely along , and found nothing to alarm him till , coming within a few yards of the sand - pit , he heard a slight noise in front , which led him to ...
... light had gone , the rising dust had disappeared — he hoped for ever . He marched resolutely along , and found nothing to alarm him till , coming within a few yards of the sand - pit , he heard a slight noise in front , which led him to ...
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... light shone into the whites of his eyes , and upon his ivory teeth , which , in contrast with the red surrounding , lent him a startling aspect . This was enough to make the boy shudder . He knew too well for his peace of mind upon ...
... light shone into the whites of his eyes , and upon his ivory teeth , which , in contrast with the red surrounding , lent him a startling aspect . This was enough to make the boy shudder . He knew too well for his peace of mind upon ...
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... light I saw by now ? ' ' O yes : I was beating out some bags . good bonfire up there ? I saw the light . a bonfire so bad that she should give you And have you had a Why did Miss Vye want sixpence to keep it up ? ' ' I don't know . I ...
... light I saw by now ? ' ' O yes : I was beating out some bags . good bonfire up there ? I saw the light . a bonfire so bad that she should give you And have you had a Why did Miss Vye want sixpence to keep it up ? ' ' I don't know . I ...
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... lights on , and stamps unmistakably , as with the mark of Cain , any person who has handled it half - an - hour . A child's first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life . That blood - coloured figure was a sublimation of all the ...
... lights on , and stamps unmistakably , as with the mark of Cain , any person who has handled it half - an - hour . A child's first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life . That blood - coloured figure was a sublimation of all the ...
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Page 89 - His forehead is bony and full of character, with " bumps" of wit, large and radiant, enough to transport a phrenologist. His eyes are as dark and fine, as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth generous and good-humoured, with dimples ; his nose sensual, prominent, and at the same time the reverse of aquiline.
Page 478 - In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of the future. Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its Pheidias may produce such faces. The view of life as a thing to be put up with, replacing that zest for existence which was so intense in early civilizations, must ultimately enter so thoroughly into the constitution of the advanced races that its facial expression will become accepted as a new artistic departure.
Page 286 - Charles's time have laughed to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermine, and sailing in an open boat upon a sea of pasteboard? What a field of raillery would they have been let into, had they been entertained with painted dragons spitting wild-fire, enchanted chariots drawn by Flanders mares, and real cascades in artificial landskips...
Page 238 - Soft whispering came into her ear from under the radiant helmet, and she felt like a woman in Paradise. Suddenly these two wheeled out from the mass of dancers, dived into one of the pools of the heath, and came out somewhere beneath into an iridescent hollow, arched with rainbows. 'It must be here,' said the voice by her side, and blushingly looking up she saw him removing his casque to kiss her.
Page 16 - And she was handsomer, but the reddleman was far from thinking so. There was a certain obscurity in Eustacia's beauty, and Venn's eye was not trained. In her winter dress, as now, she was like the tiger-beetle, which, when observed in dull situations, seems to be of the quietest neutral colour, but under a full illumination blazes with dazzling splendour. Eustacia could not help replying, though conscious that she endangered her dignity thereby. 'Many women are lovelier than Thomasin,' she said;...
Page 482 - In consequence of this relatively advanced position, Yeobright might have been called unfortunate. The rural world was not ripe for him. A man should be only partially before his time : to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.
Page 425 - They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet. Every one, blindfold, draws out a portion. He who holds the bonnet is entitled to the last bit. Whoever draws the black bit, is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Page 256 - ... at the end of the four or five years of endeavour which follow the close of placid pupilage. He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh...
Page 286 - No, no, says the other; they are to enter towards the end of the first act, and to fly about the stage.
Page 484 - Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous satisfaction at observing that, in some of the attempts at reclamation from the waste, tillage, after holding on for a year or two, had receded again in despair, the ferns and furze-tufts stubbornly reasserting themselves.