The Maid's Husband, 3. köideR. Bentley, 1844 |
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affection babe better Betty Bracken calm carriage cheerful chinchilla comfort confess creature dear deep delight Divine grace dream duty escutcheon eyes fancy fear feelings felt folly gained girl give gone hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE Haveringham heart hope John Bracken knew Lady Oglander laughed leave live look round lost maid's husband manner married ment mind Miss Ayl Miss Aylmer morbid mind mother mother of pearl ness never night once pain passed passion peace Philip Waldegrave pity pleasure poor Betty pretty pride racter recollection repose rience Rosalind seemed servant silence single Sir Francis smile soft soon sorrow spirit stand stood Strick Strickland sweet taken talk tell tender thing thou thought timate tion truth turb turn uncon unem voice wait Waldegrave's weak whilst wife Winston Hall wished women word young
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Page 76 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 1 - It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 259 - Tramp ! tramp ! across the land they speede, Splash! splash! across the sea; Hurrah ! The dead can ride apace ! Dost fear to ride with me...
Page 203 - If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: If I say, "I am perfect," it shall also prove me perverse.
Page 68 - What is the highest happiness of mortals, if not to execute what we consider right and good ; to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims ? And where should or can our...
Page 69 - ... her activity will turn them all to profit. Thus is she dependent upon no one ; and she procures her husband genuine independence, that which is interior and domestic : whatever he possesses, he beholds secured ; what he earns, well employed ; and thus he can direct his mind to lofty objects, and if fortune favours, he may act in the state the same character which so well becomes his wife at home.
Page 178 - ... to turn the heart of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, and bring him round to a sense of his own perplexities.
Page 306 - If we were to form an image of dignity in a man, we should give him wisdom and valour, as being essential to the character of manhood. In like manner, if you describe a right woman in a laudable sense, she should have gentle softness, tender fear, and all those parts of life which distinguish her from the other sex ; with some subordination to it, but such an inferiority that makes her still more lovely.
Page 21 - Gymnosophists or hermits, who are clothed in the bark of trees. In amazement at her beauty they worship her as a divinity. Fear not thou, oh blessed spirit! Speak, oh thou ! of form so beauteous; who art thou, and what thy purpose ? As thy noble form we gaze on, as we gaze on thy bright eyes, In amaze we stand and wonder: freely breathe, and wail no more. Of the wood art thou the goddess? or the mountain-goddess thou ? Or the river-nymph, the beauteous ? Blessed spirit, speak the truth.
Page 57 - I once persuaded thee to reflect much ; let me now persuade thee to avoid the habitude of reflection, to lay aside books, and to gaze carefully and steadfastly on what is under and before thee.