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... appearance of Florence Cecil , I was still more delighted by the attractions of her mind . Like myself , she was enthusiastically fond of poetry : without being sentimental , her soul was full of romance ; and when she talked 12 GERALD ...
... appearance of Florence Cecil , I was still more delighted by the attractions of her mind . Like myself , she was enthusiastically fond of poetry : without being sentimental , her soul was full of romance ; and when she talked 12 GERALD ...
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... appearing , as we have said , almost calm in the midst of these doings , had been , for the last hour , " bleeding within . The sight of the bloody shirt had stung her in the very point where all sensation and sensibility centre . The ...
... appearing , as we have said , almost calm in the midst of these doings , had been , for the last hour , " bleeding within . The sight of the bloody shirt had stung her in the very point where all sensation and sensibility centre . The ...
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... appeared to bear up during the day . The husband came and went , inquiring for news from Musselburgh . There was none , except the general impression throughout the city , that his son was the murderer . The evening came . It was raw ...
... appeared to bear up during the day . The husband came and went , inquiring for news from Musselburgh . There was none , except the general impression throughout the city , that his son was the murderer . The evening came . It was raw ...
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... appearance , as described , by no means coincided with that of a boy . But still there was the mys- tery to clear up as to the shirt found on Leith Sands , the knife , and the flight of the boy - a mys- tery which threatened to baffle ...
... appearance , as described , by no means coincided with that of a boy . But still there was the mys- tery to clear up as to the shirt found on Leith Sands , the knife , and the flight of the boy - a mys- tery which threatened to baffle ...
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... appearance . The female , who by this time had recovered from the swoon into which she fell when the voice of Merriville first reached her ear , now screamed as she saw the blood with which he was profusely stained , and , imagining him ...
... appearance . The female , who by this time had recovered from the swoon into which she fell when the voice of Merriville first reached her ear , now screamed as she saw the blood with which he was profusely stained , and , imagining him ...
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Page 237 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless: Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away...
Page 240 - Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
Page 223 - When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main ; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : " Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves!
Page 240 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 129 - How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.
Page 121 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Page 223 - THE stars are with the voyager Wherever he may sail ; The moon is constant to her time ; The sun will never fail ; But follow, follow round the world, The green earth and the sea ; So love is with the lover's heart, Wherever he may be.