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... you know , " said Henrietta , fixing her eyes on a distant point . And then she added , turning suddenly : " Isabel Archer , I beg your pardon . You don't know why ? Because I criticised you , and 4 The Portrait of a Lady ,
... you know , " said Henrietta , fixing her eyes on a distant point . And then she added , turning suddenly : " Isabel Archer , I beg your pardon . You don't know why ? Because I criticised you , and 4 The Portrait of a Lady ,
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... It almost seemed to her that no one had ever been so close to her as that . this , however , took but a moment , at the end of which she had disengaged All her wrist , turning her eyes upon her visitant . 16 The Portrait of a Lady .
... It almost seemed to her that no one had ever been so close to her as that . this , however , took but a moment , at the end of which she had disengaged All her wrist , turning her eyes upon her visitant . 16 The Portrait of a Lady .
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her wrist , turning her eyes upon her visitant . " You have frightened me , " she said . " I didn't mean to , " he answered ; " but if I did a little , no matter . I came from London a while ago by the train , but I couldn't come here ...
her wrist , turning her eyes upon her visitant . " You have frightened me , " she said . " I didn't mean to , " he answered ; " but if I did a little , no matter . I came from London a while ago by the train , but I couldn't come here ...
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... turn . It's too late to play a part ; didn't you leave all that behind you in Rome ? Touchett knew all about it and I knew it too - what it would cost you to come here . It will cost you your life ! When I know that , how can I keep ...
... turn . It's too late to play a part ; didn't you leave all that behind you in Rome ? Touchett knew all about it and I knew it too - what it would cost you to come here . It will cost you your life ! When I know that , how can I keep ...
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... turn ; but she knew now . There was a very straight path . Two days afterwards , Caspar Good- wood knocked at the door of the house in Wimpole Street in which Henrietta Stackpole occupied furnished lodgings . He had hardly removed his ...
... turn ; but she knew now . There was a very straight path . Two days afterwards , Caspar Good- wood knocked at the door of the house in Wimpole Street in which Henrietta Stackpole occupied furnished lodgings . He had hardly removed his ...
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Page 76 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 54 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 306 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Page 161 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee ? Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!
Page 491 - Jews to parliament and the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown.
Page 321 - Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule ; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin : its face reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power 'tis due ; — Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue.
Page 161 - What art thou afraid of? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? Despicable biped! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee!
Page 161 - Thus had the EVERLASTING No (das ewige Nein) pealed authoritatively through all the recesses of my Being, of my ME; and then was it that my whole ME stood up, in native God-created majesty, and with emphasis recorded its Protest.
Page 451 - I give you this charge that you shall be of my privy council, and content yourself to take pains for me and my realm. This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted by any manner of gift, and that you will be faithful to the State ; and that, without respect to my private will, you will give me that counsel which you think best...
Page 151 - The blue majestic everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind ; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet (where not a hillock rears its head unsung), with Edinburgh at their base clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged black venerable masses of stonework that stretch far and wide and show like a city of Fairyland.