The life of a beauty, by the author of 'The jilt'. |
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... knew it - how could she but know what she had heard from her cradle- what was repeated before she knew the mean- ing of the words , repeated , with many a hug and exulting caress by the proud and silly mother , re - echoed by the ...
... knew it - how could she but know what she had heard from her cradle- what was repeated before she knew the mean- ing of the words , repeated , with many a hug and exulting caress by the proud and silly mother , re - echoed by the ...
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... his abode with her only daughter , his wife and himself and this he did , no one , not even his own wife , knew why , but certainly not because the proud and haughty old dowager was agreeable to himself . During 6 THE BIRTH OF A BEAUTY .
... his abode with her only daughter , his wife and himself and this he did , no one , not even his own wife , knew why , but certainly not because the proud and haughty old dowager was agreeable to himself . During 6 THE BIRTH OF A BEAUTY .
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... knew that the sky was of that deep rich blue which always an- nounces a lovely day . Her own fate seemed to her as cloudless , and she crept back into bed , to sleep till the bell should ring . At eight o'clock it did ring , waking ...
... knew that the sky was of that deep rich blue which always an- nounces a lovely day . Her own fate seemed to her as cloudless , and she crept back into bed , to sleep till the bell should ring . At eight o'clock it did ring , waking ...
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... knew simplicity in attire was a charm at sixteen , and so she de- clined all these loans , except one small venetian chain with a little ruby cross . And how did Robina Mc.Grigor look on this important first of May , 1814 ? Judging by ...
... knew simplicity in attire was a charm at sixteen , and so she de- clined all these loans , except one small venetian chain with a little ruby cross . And how did Robina Mc.Grigor look on this important first of May , 1814 ? Judging by ...
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... knew not why , begun sentences she did not end , promised to tell all she should have seen , and looked into the box in which her ball dress and all its etceteras were neatly packed up , by some of her school - fellows . How her heart ...
... knew not why , begun sentences she did not end , promised to tell all she should have seen , and looked into the box in which her ball dress and all its etceteras were neatly packed up , by some of her school - fellows . How her heart ...
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admiration Angelina anguish arms auld Leddy Beenie believe bosom breakfast canna Captain CHAPTER charms cheek child cold Colonel Fitzgeorge comfort coquette curricle daugh daughter dear delight devoted door Dougal dreadful dress Duke of Dartmoor Dunkeld e'en Eva Morris Eva's eyes face fancy father fear feel felt Fichu fond gaze George Darnly Gillespie girl Glenlonely Grace Grinlay hair hand happy head heart heartless honour hope hour husband knew Lady Emmeline Lady Mc.Grigor lassie laugh lips looked lover Luxmore's madam mair mamma Marmaduke Mc.Quibble mind Miranda miserable Miss Luxmore Miss Mc Miss Mc.Dougal Miss Mc.Prudie Miss Twitch mother never nurse odious pale passion poor Eva poor Luxmore Robina rose seemed Shoozie Sir Davie Sir Grigor Mc.Grigor smile Southron sure taste tears thought Trimmer vanity watch weel weep wife wish woman young
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197 페이지 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
124 페이지 - — what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears ! And how, each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears ! When first our scanty years are told, It seems like pastime to grow old ; And, as Youth counts the shining links, That Time around him binds so fast, Pleased with the task, he little thinks How hard that chain will press at last. Vain was the man, and false as vain, Who said...
116 페이지 - ... yield ; and who, as she went on, living with Burton, confirmed, as if intuitively, (for the chances are, she had never read them,) the merit of those lines of the immortal POPE, which bid the wife be one — " Who never answers till her husband cools ; And, if she rules him, never shews she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, And has her humour most when she obeys.
281 페이지 - ... evil, blameless, or neutral, may not the authorized and legalized tenderness have been deeper and more enduring, the post-nuptial kiss more fervent and pure ? I know not, but I exert the common privilege of my countrymen, and guess. It has been said that love begins with the first sigh and ends with the first permitted kiss. I do not go quite so far as this cold maxim in my code of laws for the regulation of ante-nuptial behaviour, but I am a warm advocate, upon principle, for a very restrained...
100 페이지 - Love, the delicate, devoted love woman should glory to inspire, as the old saying has it, " begins with the first sigh, and ends with the first kiss ;