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Pagina 10
... hand longing to forget my anguish , for a time , when I was startled by Walter's well - known tap at the room door . He entered , and taking a seat close by me on the sofa , seized my hand , rather roughly , I thought , and declared ...
... hand longing to forget my anguish , for a time , when I was startled by Walter's well - known tap at the room door . He entered , and taking a seat close by me on the sofa , seized my hand , rather roughly , I thought , and declared ...
Pagina 11
... hands and leading him , as best I could , to the hall door , I opened it and wished him " good night . " What a mocking sound my own voice had to me , as I uttered those common - place words ! How I trembled , as I crept , like a guilty ...
... hands and leading him , as best I could , to the hall door , I opened it and wished him " good night . " What a mocking sound my own voice had to me , as I uttered those common - place words ! How I trembled , as I crept , like a guilty ...
Pagina 15
... hand . " At least we part friends and well wishers , " I said , choking down by a strong effort the emotion which I felt it would soon be past my power to restrain . " Friends ! " he repeated bitterly and without touch- ing or noticing ...
... hand . " At least we part friends and well wishers , " I said , choking down by a strong effort the emotion which I felt it would soon be past my power to restrain . " Friends ! " he repeated bitterly and without touch- ing or noticing ...
Pagina 17
... hands , and received with an unthankful heart . But this dark stupor passed away . I was pronounced convalescent , and the gentlemen who had placed me in the asylum consulted together as to the future disposal of me . This time ...
... hands , and received with an unthankful heart . But this dark stupor passed away . I was pronounced convalescent , and the gentlemen who had placed me in the asylum consulted together as to the future disposal of me . This time ...
Pagina 22
... hand ? " Again Mrs. Dent , scrutinized the features of the sufferer . It was only to turn with new horror from the spectacle , and with a certainty of the truth that caused her to wring her hands in wild distress as she cried aloud- " O ...
... hand ? " Again Mrs. Dent , scrutinized the features of the sufferer . It was only to turn with new horror from the spectacle , and with a certainty of the truth that caused her to wring her hands in wild distress as she cried aloud- " O ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
abstinence anguish asked beauty believe better boys called cause child comfort Cottage darling dear Mary dearest death delight distress dreadful drink drunkard earnest Edinburgh Ellen evil exclaimed eyes face Fairfield Fanny father fear feel felt Frank Hamer Frederick Kelly gentle GERALD MASSEY girl glass grief hand happy Harry Mills heard heart hope husband intemperance intoxicated JOHN HEYWOOD Kelly kind knew lady Laura little Allie look Maister Lister Mary Lister Mary's matter mind misery Miss Lister mother mysen Nelly never Newburn night once passed perhaps pleasant pleasure poor present promise regarded replied Robert Turner seemed shewed society soon sorrow suffer sure Susan Susy sweet teetotal teetotaller tell temperance Temperance Band tender thing thought told tone took trembling truth Walter wife William Lister wine wish words Yorkshire young youth
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Pagina 79 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Pagina 132 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Pagina 356 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Pagina 38 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Pagina 61 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone : And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Pagina 143 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Pagina 110 - Beauty is my Love, Yet in her earnest face There's such a world of tenderness, She needs no other grace.
Pagina 132 - Men make resolves, and pass into decrees The motions of the mind! with how much ease, In such resolves, doth passion make a flaw, And bring to nothing what was raised to law! In empire young, scarce warm on Gotham's throne, The dangers and the sweets of...
Pagina 192 - Hail, social life ! into thy pleasing bounds Again I come to pay the common stock, My share of service, and, in glad return, To taste thy comforts, thy protected joys.
Pagina 324 - Good men have said That sometimes God leaves sinners to their sin,— He has left me to mine, and I am changed; My worst part is insurgent, and my will Is weak .and powerless as a trembling king When millions rise up hungry.