Syrlin; Or, Position

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J.B. Lippincott, 1903 - 499 sider
 

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Side 280 - he thought, with a consolatory reflection. Freda went rapidly up the steep, ill-smelling stair, with that step which had once made lona apply to her Ben Jonson's lines : Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk. The
Side 155 - and your Ausias Marches," said Lady Avillion; "there is no need to resuscitate them, they sleep well under nameless slabs of stone in dark forgotten crypts." " Their bones lie there no doubt," said lona, " but as for their spirits— What is Richepin's but ' Le temps qui s'en va nuit et jour, sans repos prendre, et sans séjour,
Side 207 - Tout Rossini, tout Mozart, et tout Weber, Un air très vieux, languissant et funèbre, Qui pour moi seul a des charmes secrets.
Side 207 - Puis une dame, à sa haute fenêtre, Blonde, aux yeux noirs, en ses habits anciens, Que dans une autre existence peut-être, J'ai déjà vue—et
Side 207 - Puis un château de brique aux coins de pierre, Aux vitraux teints de rougeâtres couleurs, Ceint de grands parcs, avec une rivière Baignant ses pieds, qui coule
Side 207 - l'entendre, De deux cents ans mon âme rajeunit ; C'est sous Louis Treize ; et je crois voir s'étendre Un château
Side 157 - fredonné. Et ja le rossignol doucement jargonné, Dessus l'épine assis, sa complainte amoureuse, Sus ! Debout ! Allons
Side 146 - thought so because the day had so long gone by when she had had any for him that he had quite forgotten it. His recent loves were seldom in his own world. "Never let yourself love a femme du monde" he said once to a young man whose welfare he desired ;
Side 168 - and presides at county meetings, and is always present to vote against marriage with a deceased wife's sister ; but I do thoroughly understand how the sight of this excellent youth, with his guns and his friends and his keepers, does tend to make a mild Socialist of the worthy British farmer who pays rent to him.
Side 146 - again, if on the evening of the day that he broke with her, he had found himself obliged to take her in to dinner in Arlington Street, or to give her his arm to her carriage a? she left a crush at Wharncliffe House. When you can't get away from them there is no end to it.

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