The Matchmaker: A Novel, Volum 3Colburn, 1842 |
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... young and very inexperienced girl . She had formed no plan , she had never calculated how it was to terminate , or that it must terminate at all . Love threw its golden mist over the landscape of life , and she sought not to look beyond ...
... young and very inexperienced girl . She had formed no plan , she had never calculated how it was to terminate , or that it must terminate at all . Love threw its golden mist over the landscape of life , and she sought not to look beyond ...
Side 10
... young girl loves him , who never hints at mar- riage , but what is extreme innocence in the dawn of life , would cease to be so when the rosy veil is withdrawn , and she looks at life , knowing what life is . As yet Annie was guiltless ...
... young girl loves him , who never hints at mar- riage , but what is extreme innocence in the dawn of life , would cease to be so when the rosy veil is withdrawn , and she looks at life , knowing what life is . As yet Annie was guiltless ...
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... young shoulders , proved at the same time that one cannot put a young head on old ones ; for , with all her anxiety to conciliate and to set a good example to the young folk , she could not take in one new idea , follow out one argument ...
... young shoulders , proved at the same time that one cannot put a young head on old ones ; for , with all her anxiety to conciliate and to set a good example to the young folk , she could not take in one new idea , follow out one argument ...
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... young , learned , and I hope , energetic ; he has now the same prospects with which I began life - poor boy ! I hope he may be as fortunate and less rash ! It is a pity that , instead of a prompt and happy union , the attachment between ...
... young , learned , and I hope , energetic ; he has now the same prospects with which I began life - poor boy ! I hope he may be as fortunate and less rash ! It is a pity that , instead of a prompt and happy union , the attachment between ...
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... Young Gentlemen . " That was the home of a couple , who a few years before had married for love ! ...... The girl had been very beautiful , and was of good birth . She had refused wealthy offers - she was in love - she married a young ...
... Young Gentlemen . " That was the home of a couple , who a few years before had married for love ! ...... The girl had been very beautiful , and was of good birth . She had refused wealthy offers - she was in love - she married a young ...
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Side 68 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring, To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Side 169 - SEE, WINTER comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapours and Clouds and Storms. Be these my theme, These ! that exalt the soul to solemn thought, And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms, Congenial horrors, hail ! with frequent foot...
Side 29 - Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of Ills to come; Nor Care, beyond to-day! Yet see, how all around them wait The Ministers of human fate; And black Misfortune's baleful Train!
Side 39 - HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me not that, in some sad and sickening moments, my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction mere pomp of words!
Side 1 - gainst the thunderstroke; And from beneath his boughs were seen to sally The dappled foresters — as day awoke, The branching stag swept down with all his herd, To quaff a brook which murmur'd like a bird.
Side 125 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue...
Side 39 - Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me" not, that in some sad and sickening moments, "my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction" mere pomp of words! but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself all comes from thee, great great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but...
Side 45 - ... tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.
Side 138 - I won't trouble you any more.' Then how am I to help you?' 'I didn't ask your help.' Then why come to me?' "Why, indeed!' I echoed. 'Will you let me pass?' 'Not until you tell me where you are going and what you mean to do.' 'Can't you guess?' I cried. And for many seconds we stood staring in each other's eyes. 'Have you got the pluck?' said he, breaking the spell in a tone so cynical that it brought my last drop of blood to the boil. 'You shall see,' said I, as I stepped back and whipped the pistol...
Side 21 - Adieu, poor luckless maiden ! Imbibe the oil and wine which the compassion of a stranger, as he journeyeth on his way, now pours into thy wounds — the Being who has twice bruised thee can only bind them up for ever.