The Leaden Casket: A Novel, Band 1Chatto & Windus, 1880 |
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afraid Allerleirauh Ardrossan asked Aunt Lettice Aunt Selina Austerfield Ayton beautiful Bertie Warrington Betsy better Brooke's Castle of Otranto Chesterfield child cried Lady Brooke cried Olive dare dear delight dinner dress dull exclaimed eyes face father feel flowers forget girl give Hanway Town happy Harley Street heard heart Honora husband India invitation kind knew Lady Ellerton leave live London look Madame Filoselle marry mind Miss Brooke Miss Cochrane Miss Lettice Miss Quilter morning mother Mysteries of Udolpho never nice niece novel Olive felt Olive's once poor Pre-Raphaelite pretty Raymond Richard Richard Brooke seemed servants Sir John Ellerton sister smiled soon speak stay sure talk tell things thought Olive to-day turned Ullathorne Ullathorne's uncle wait walk wife Willie window wish woman wonder writing
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Seite 78 - Be content," said the great John Wesley to his froward wife, "be content to be a private insignificant person, known and loved by God and me. Of what importance is your character to mankind ? If you was buried just now, or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God ?" This energetic remonstrance can hardly be said to exhaust the matter.
Seite 1 - Man for the field and woman for the hearth : Man for the sword and for the needle she : Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.
Seite 1 - As are the roots of earth and base of all, — Man for the field and woman for the hearth ; Man for the sword, and for the needle she...
Seite 173 - HAD I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square ; Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there...
Seite 225 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Seite 37 - Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn ; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth has nought beside To answer their small wants. To view the graceful deer come tripping by, Then stop, and gaze, then turn, they know not why, Like bashful younkers in society. To mark the structure of a plant or tree, And all fair things of earth, how fair they be.
Seite 276 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? think of it; The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fathoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
Seite 139 - ... more convenient to have them tight. They fell in pretty folds, and looked creamy and delicate, and not extravagant in the quantity of material used. None of these ladies sat very upright, all lounged and lolled a little; some stooped forward like the water-lilies in their own hands when their stalks began to grow limp. Some arranged themselves in wistful and sentimental-looking curves, which reminded — that is to say, would have reminded anyone who did not enter into the feeling of the assembly...
Seite 120 - I don't wish it,' cried Mrs. Ullathorne snappishly. ' I never said I did ; I do it entirely from a sense of duty. Olive must be introduced to society by one of us, and my society is the only society worth knowing. Yours suits you and your husband ; you know best — at least, you don't, but you won't listen to me.