London Society, Volume 37James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1880 |
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... windows looked as if they too were weary of stating a self - evi- dent proposition . There were some to whom , pass- ing that way as they did con- stantly , the house grew to be a haunting presence . When they woke in the night they ...
... windows looked as if they too were weary of stating a self - evi- dent proposition . There were some to whom , pass- ing that way as they did con- stantly , the house grew to be a haunting presence . When they woke in the night they ...
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... windows , its eternal iteration of ' To be sold- To be sold - To be sold ; the green moss on its drive , the litter of leaves on its borders , its ill- kept grass - plot , the paint peeling from its doors , its silent bell , its vacant ...
... windows , its eternal iteration of ' To be sold- To be sold - To be sold ; the green moss on its drive , the litter of leaves on its borders , its ill- kept grass - plot , the paint peeling from its doors , its silent bell , its vacant ...
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... windows opened on to a broad terrace , such as is some- times presented to view on the stage ; below that a small and pretty garden bordered and shel- tered by great elm - trees ; beyond that an iron railing divided a paddock - like ...
... windows opened on to a broad terrace , such as is some- times presented to view on the stage ; below that a small and pretty garden bordered and shel- tered by great elm - trees ; beyond that an iron railing divided a paddock - like ...
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... windows . Mr. Seaton himself was propped up against a pile of books , and surveyed the bidders blandly from his costly frame . Everything was sold ; from the croquet set to the carriage - horses , from the oldest saucepan in the kitchen ...
... windows . Mr. Seaton himself was propped up against a pile of books , and surveyed the bidders blandly from his costly frame . Everything was sold ; from the croquet set to the carriage - horses , from the oldest saucepan in the kitchen ...
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... windows to acquire a more glassy stare , and still it remained vacant . ' It was not everybody's house . ' So the caretaker remarked confi- dentially to her friends when they came to take tea with her on Sun- day afternoons , and walk ...
... windows to acquire a more glassy stare , and still it remained vacant . ' It was not everybody's house . ' So the caretaker remarked confi- dentially to her friends when they came to take tea with her on Sun- day afternoons , and walk ...
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Page 30 - Thou h'ast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Page 390 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 489 - There are thousands of houses in England at this moment where wives, mothers, and children are dying of hunger. Now/ he said, ' when the first paroxysm of your grief is past, I would advise you to come with me and we will never rest till the Corn Law is repealed.
Page 56 - If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go.
Page 156 - He is of necessity a miserable and useless man ; and he is so, even though he be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day.
Page 138 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Page 560 - Oh, -woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.
Page 20 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 394 - ... discussion, the numbers were — For the Ministerial Address, 269 ; amendment, 360 — majority against the Government, 91. Ministers now resigned office, and on the 31st of the month Sir Robert Peel accepted her Majesty's commands to form a Ministry. Mr. Gladstone received from his leader the appointments of Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. In appearing on the hustings at Newark...
Page 15 - O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end, And so thro' those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee : come, Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thou my manhood and thyself; Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.