Belgravia, Volume 35Willmer & Rogers, 1878 - English periodicals |
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... smile of hauteur . What could have been in your mind to lead you to speak like that ? ' 6 ' Miss Vye , why should you make believe that you don't know this man ? I know why , certainly . He is beneath you , and you are ashamed . ' " You ...
... smile of hauteur . What could have been in your mind to lead you to speak like that ? ' 6 ' Miss Vye , why should you make believe that you don't know this man ? I know why , certainly . He is beneath you , and you are ashamed . ' " You ...
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... smile and elegance of manner . She had long since quitted Paris for the solitude of the Abbaye - aux - Bois . There , says a writer in the ' Biographie Universelle , ' ' each day , with the exactness of a clock , the inhabitants of the ...
... smile and elegance of manner . She had long since quitted Paris for the solitude of the Abbaye - aux - Bois . There , says a writer in the ' Biographie Universelle , ' ' each day , with the exactness of a clock , the inhabitants of the ...
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... smiling and bowing with all the per- suasiveness and elegance that were in him . Very well . Miss Rosannah Ethelton , let me introduce to you my favourite nephew , Mr. Alonzo Fitz Clarence . There ! You are both good people , and I like ...
... smiling and bowing with all the per- suasiveness and elegance that were in him . Very well . Miss Rosannah Ethelton , let me introduce to you my favourite nephew , Mr. Alonzo Fitz Clarence . There ! You are both good people , and I like ...
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... smiling diabolically , took sudden refuge behind the heavy folds of the velvet window curtains . Alonzo entered and flew to the telephone . Said he , — Rosannah , dear , shall we sing something together ? ' ' Something modern ? ' asked ...
... smiling diabolically , took sudden refuge behind the heavy folds of the velvet window curtains . Alonzo entered and flew to the telephone . Said he , — Rosannah , dear , shall we sing something together ? ' ' Something modern ? ' asked ...
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... smiling , as almost always at noonday , under the glowing arches of a succession of rainbows . In front of the window one could see the quaint town , and here and there a picturesque group of dusky natives , enjoying the blistering ...
... smiling , as almost always at noonday , under the glowing arches of a succession of rainbows . In front of the window one could see the quaint town , and here and there a picturesque group of dusky natives , enjoying the blistering ...
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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.