Blanche Dearwood: A Tale of Modern Life, Količina 1Bunce & Brother, 1855 - 407 strani |
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Blanche Dearwood: A Tale of Modern Life (Classic Reprint) Indiana University Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
Blanche Dearwood: A Tale of Modern Life (Classic Reprint) Indiana University Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
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admiration agitation Alice Allstone Amelia Arden arms beauty believe Blanche Dearwood Blanche's bosom brow calm Captain Dartan Carlton carriage cheek choly Clove Colonel Waldron dark dear delight desire door doubt dream earnest Elwood emotions exclaimed Blanche exclaimed Rodman eyes face father fear feel felt filled fling flung Gilbert glow grace grew guardian hand happiness head heart heaven hope Hopewell hour knew know my history Knowlton lady laugh lips look madam manner melan melancholy mind misanthropy Miss Dearwood mystery never night once painful passion pause perfect pleasure Poppin real delight remember replied Blanche resumed rienced Rodman Moore Rodman Willow rushed Sally scene seated side silent sister smile speak stood strange stranger suddenly sure sweet taste tears tell thing thought tion turned voice walked ward watched wild words young youth
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Stran 328 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Stran 308 - Turk: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
Stran 217 - Oh! there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speak it profanely) that, neither have the accent of Christian, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably.
Stran 362 - ... cut him short, without promising, indeed without proposing, anything, for she had something else to think about ; and immediately resumed her journey. At length the cart arrived, and stopped at the tailor's house. Lucia sprang up hastily: Agnese dismounted and rushed impetuously into the cottage, and, in an instant, they were locked in each other's arms. The good dame, who alone was present, tried to encourage and calm them, and shared with them in their joy; then, with her usual discretion,...
Stran 259 - tongues in trees, sermons in stones, books in running brooks, and good in every thing,
Stran 30 - He was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, there was a quiet, respectful hush to his words.
Stran 149 - He caught her in his arms, pressed with passionate fervor her lips and her brow, and then, as if by one sudden effort to shorten the painful scene, he tore himself from her, and rushed...
Stran 150 - Painful forebodings as to the future, and those torturing doubts and surmises that are peculiar to us...
Stran 150 - She felt that this would excite embarrassing comments from her guardian upon her health ; but the summons for breakfast had already been brought, and there was no help but to encounter them.
Stran 230 - Rodman, your purpose is doubtless a wise one, and it is a great consolation to me to think that I can render you some service in it.