The Only Daughter: A Domestic Story, Band 2Colburn, 1839 |
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... least talent for music , and Lillias had scarcely sufficient voice even for the trifle she performed , yet they had been too carefully taught to allow of their singing being disagree- able , and so they sang together , and in turn for ...
... least talent for music , and Lillias had scarcely sufficient voice even for the trifle she performed , yet they had been too carefully taught to allow of their singing being disagree- able , and so they sang together , and in turn for ...
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... least ambitious of outshining anybody ; and I shall not be at all disappointed if Roderick is too late . " " Hoot fye Helen , " replied the old lady ; " that's no like you , I mind when the notion of a dance , though it was but on the ...
... least ambitious of outshining anybody ; and I shall not be at all disappointed if Roderick is too late . " " Hoot fye Helen , " replied the old lady ; " that's no like you , I mind when the notion of a dance , though it was but on the ...
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... least amusement . When Roderick was with her she felt less that wearing out desolation of a heart which is yet busy with forms of its own creation , but he had been gone above a week , and the repugnance to exertion was already creeping ...
... least amusement . When Roderick was with her she felt less that wearing out desolation of a heart which is yet busy with forms of its own creation , but he had been gone above a week , and the repugnance to exertion was already creeping ...
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... none who really know the true nobility of your nature can misjudge it , and least of all she to whom the judgment will be of most importance . You are not one to let any consideration of the world's malice 68 THE ONLY DAUGHTER .
... none who really know the true nobility of your nature can misjudge it , and least of all she to whom the judgment will be of most importance . You are not one to let any consideration of the world's malice 68 THE ONLY DAUGHTER .
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... least your own words have relieved it ; otherwise I might have trembled to lose your esteem by aiming even above it . I am coolly and clearly alive to all the dis- parity that exists between us - I know that my youth has fled , although ...
... least your own words have relieved it ; otherwise I might have trembled to lose your esteem by aiming even above it . I am coolly and clearly alive to all the dis- parity that exists between us - I know that my youth has fled , although ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection agony answered Helen asked aunt Katie beauty blush breath burst Captain St Caroline Caroline Munro castle cheek cold Colonel Faulcon Colonel Faulconbridge conbridge confess cousin dance dare daugh dear Helen dear Ruth dearest dinner drawing-room Dunardoch earnest eyes face fair fancied fate feelings felt flung forehead friendship gaiety gentle glance gratitude half hand happiness Harewood House heart Hector Helen rose Hemingsley honour hope hour Kilmore Lady Munro Ladyship laughing Leger letter Lillias loch Lord Harewood Major Tracy ment METASTASIO Miss Annesley Miss Campbell Miss Munro Monzievar morning ness never night offer once pale pang party passion quadrille rendered replied Roderick Drummond rose Ruth Annesley Ruth's scarcely Scotland seated seemed shadow silence Sir Evan skaiting smile solitude sorrow spirit suffering sympathy tears tell thought tion tone turned voice vows words wounded wretchedness
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Seite 191 - And blushed and smiled the tale to hear, Poured from her dark-eyed cavalier ; And yet, I too must moralize, Albeit with gentler sympathies, Of all my own fond heart can tell Of love's despair, and love's farewell, — Its many miseries ; — its tears, Like lava, not like dew ; — its fears, That make hope painful ; — then its trust, So often trampled in the dust ; — Neglected, blighted, and betrayed, A sorrow and a mockery made ! Then change and adverse fortune, all That binds and keeps sweet...
Seite 245 - The Gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid, That rightly think'st and hast most rightly said.