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... sensibility added intellectual charms to those of Ellesif . Though her hair was black , her eyes were blue ( not the light azure of sunny day , but the deep blue of starry night ) ; and the shade of their long B 3 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY ...
... sensibility added intellectual charms to those of Ellesif . Though her hair was black , her eyes were blue ( not the light azure of sunny day , but the deep blue of starry night ) ; and the shade of their long B 3 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY ...
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... sensibility and openness in her own character , that she lived in the constant fear of exposing herself to the ridicule she dreaded . Often conscious that her feelings . were visible to every surrounding observer ; when prudence or ...
... sensibility and openness in her own character , that she lived in the constant fear of exposing herself to the ridicule she dreaded . Often conscious that her feelings . were visible to every surrounding observer ; when prudence or ...
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... sensibility to a trifle ; but ever in the habit of magnifying her own faults , the phantoms of Ellesif's imagination would . yield no obedience to the reason of another . Anastasia was brought from her instru- ment by the distressed ...
... sensibility to a trifle ; but ever in the habit of magnifying her own faults , the phantoms of Ellesif's imagination would . yield no obedience to the reason of another . Anastasia was brought from her instru- ment by the distressed ...
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... sensibility to general opinion ; and that timidity formed as striking a peculiarity of her mind as of her person . What she had just said to her sister suggested other ideas . This Baron Vesteros was perhaps the only person present ...
... sensibility to general opinion ; and that timidity formed as striking a peculiarity of her mind as of her person . What she had just said to her sister suggested other ideas . This Baron Vesteros was perhaps the only person present ...
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... sensibility that prompted this remark . Theodore was going to reply , when Count Lauvenheilm joined them . He rallied his daughter upon the neces- sity she had been under of asking herself to sing at last , after having in the beginning ...
... sensibility that prompted this remark . Theodore was going to reply , when Count Lauvenheilm joined them . He rallied his daughter upon the neces- sity she had been under of asking herself to sing at last , after having in the beginning ...
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Page 138 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair : Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Page 59 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.