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... young man that wrote first to the young woman that wrote last . My dear - It is with a pleasure produced from a mind en- during the bitters of anxious suspense , that I set myself down for the purpose of relating to you the candid ...
... young man that wrote first to the young woman that wrote last . My dear - It is with a pleasure produced from a mind en- during the bitters of anxious suspense , that I set myself down for the purpose of relating to you the candid ...
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... young Squire Douglas , being looked on as a batchelor man here . I was in the Park , that's not like no squire's ... young Lockwood were nothing to him -in a swell's coat and hat , and riding a chestnut mare , and two young ladies to ...
... young Squire Douglas , being looked on as a batchelor man here . I was in the Park , that's not like no squire's ... young Lockwood were nothing to him -in a swell's coat and hat , and riding a chestnut mare , and two young ladies to ...
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... young lady next us ; the other young lady is a friend , a Miss Wyndham , on a visit in Grosvenor Square . They say she and Douglas are to make a marriage . ' And the others went on to cry , what a great catch it were for a young lady ...
... young lady next us ; the other young lady is a friend , a Miss Wyndham , on a visit in Grosvenor Square . They say she and Douglas are to make a marriage . ' And the others went on to cry , what a great catch it were for a young lady ...
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... young sister , not to be set scribed it , but Pleasance saw only one aside , persisted in asking . " Is she from member the one by whom she distin- Shardleigh ? Why does she stop us guished the whole . Archie Douglas here ? ” whom she ...
... young sister , not to be set scribed it , but Pleasance saw only one aside , persisted in asking . " Is she from member the one by whom she distin- Shardleigh ? Why does she stop us guished the whole . Archie Douglas here ? ” whom she ...
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... young lady's If he faltered or failed her at that crit - request - Jane Douglas being under the ical moment , she would despise him from the bottom of her heart then and forever ; she would know a depth of misery which she had not yet ...
... young lady's If he faltered or failed her at that crit - request - Jane Douglas being under the ical moment , she would despise him from the bottom of her heart then and forever ; she would know a depth of misery which she had not yet ...
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Page 192 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every Man in arms should wish to be ? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought...
Page 58 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
Page 139 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 499 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 4 - Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone ? I wait with joy the coming years ; My heart shall reap where it has sown, And garner up its fruit of tears.
Page 204 - When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things...
Page 492 - The Castle of Otranto, a Story, translated by William Marshal, Gent, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Page 139 - It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life.
Page 143 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
Page 143 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost.