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Pagina 6
... soon after . The wheel of a passing carriage had crushed her arm : inflammation set in , and mortif cation quickly followed . Dreadful , most dreadful is the remembrance of the last few hours of her life . She begged and implored in the ...
... soon after . The wheel of a passing carriage had crushed her arm : inflammation set in , and mortif cation quickly followed . Dreadful , most dreadful is the remembrance of the last few hours of her life . She begged and implored in the ...
Pagina 8
... soon grew into a warmer and more absorbing affection . What it was in myself that attracted Walter Percy's love , I do not pretend to say . I can only declare , without any affectation of humility , that when he owned his passion I was ...
... soon grew into a warmer and more absorbing affection . What it was in myself that attracted Walter Percy's love , I do not pretend to say . I can only declare , without any affectation of humility , that when he owned his passion I was ...
Pagina 13
... soon put to the test . Before noon next day , Walter came , with real sorrow in his looks , to " ask pardon for his fault , " and to assure me " it was the only time he had ever been intoxicated . " " I cannot rest a moment , love ...
... soon put to the test . Before noon next day , Walter came , with real sorrow in his looks , to " ask pardon for his fault , " and to assure me " it was the only time he had ever been intoxicated . " " I cannot rest a moment , love ...
Pagina 15
... soon be past my power to restrain . " Friends ! " he repeated bitterly and without touch- ing or noticing my outstretched hand , he past hastily from the room , and left the house . That was the last I saw of Walter Percy . And if I ...
... soon be past my power to restrain . " Friends ! " he repeated bitterly and without touch- ing or noticing my outstretched hand , he past hastily from the room , and left the house . That was the last I saw of Walter Percy . And if I ...
Pagina 17
... , and to leave it so completely that none should be able to trace my course , and that very soon , my sorrows and misfortunes , nay , my very name , B should be forgotten by those among whom I had lived A YORKSHIRE TALE . 17.
... , and to leave it so completely that none should be able to trace my course , and that very soon , my sorrows and misfortunes , nay , my very name , B should be forgotten by those among whom I had lived A YORKSHIRE TALE . 17.
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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.