First Love: A Novel, 3. köideSaunders & Otley, 1830 |
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... figures ; and the still solemnity of all things else , that , yielding to the one absorbing sense of admiring awe , she seemed wrapped in a species of trance , while , from time to time , a single voice in the choir , separating itself ...
... figures ; and the still solemnity of all things else , that , yielding to the one absorbing sense of admiring awe , she seemed wrapped in a species of trance , while , from time to time , a single voice in the choir , separating itself ...
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... figure possessed expression . It was not repose ; it was not listlessness ; it was the fixedness of serious attention . Many of the countenances bore the traces , not of age only , but also of hardships . Hard- ships endured . Wherefore ...
... figure possessed expression . It was not repose ; it was not listlessness ; it was the fixedness of serious attention . Many of the countenances bore the traces , not of age only , but also of hardships . Hard- ships endured . Wherefore ...
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... figure , hitherto intercepted by an opposite pillar - it was Edmund ! Her heart ceased beating , flut- tered , ceased again , then beat so rapidly as to impede her breathing . Edmund leaned against the pillar , and seemed listening ...
... figure , hitherto intercepted by an opposite pillar - it was Edmund ! Her heart ceased beating , flut- tered , ceased again , then beat so rapidly as to impede her breathing . Edmund leaned against the pillar , and seemed listening ...
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... figure of Edmund , now here , now there , busily engaged , encouraging and direct- ing his men in all quarters . Gun after gun , from the batteries was silenced ; ship after ship , of the enemy struck ; and the contest seemed nearly ...
... figure of Edmund , now here , now there , busily engaged , encouraging and direct- ing his men in all quarters . Gun after gun , from the batteries was silenced ; ship after ship , of the enemy struck ; and the contest seemed nearly ...
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... figure collecting to a central point . He called for his boat four or five times in one minute . It came he leaped into it - it re- mained without motion , for no order had been given . He pointed to the frigate , and his men pulled ...
... figure collecting to a central point . He called for his boat four or five times in one minute . It came he leaped into it - it re- mained without motion , for no order had been given . He pointed to the frigate , and his men pulled ...
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Page 9 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 14 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 8 - Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of Thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what is my hope : truly my hope is even in Thee.
Page 433 - Antiquary,' the Fisherman's lamentation over his son. Can praise go higher ?"— Spectator. THE RIVALS. A Novel. By the Author of " The Collegians,
Page 433 - Octavo. Pp. 28.* SUSPIRIUM sanctorum ; or holy breathings : a series of morning and evening prayers. By a lady. [Lady Charlotte BURY.] [In two volumes.] New edition, enlarged. London : 183o.
Page 39 - Why hast thou told me, Hidallan, that my hero fell ? I might have hoped a little while his return ; I might have thought I saw him on the distant rock ; a tree might have deceived me with his appearance ; the wind of the hill might have been the sound of his horn in mine ear. O that I were on the banks of Carun ! that my tears might be warm on his cheek ! HIDALLAN.