Vivia, a journal, Volume 1; Volume 345Hurst & Blackett, 1854 |
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... knew little , but I clung to him as all I had left in the world , and it was a very sad and desolate child whom Lady Coningsburgh received into her kind and motherly arms , as the post chaise in which Philip had brought me to Coningsley ...
... knew little , but I clung to him as all I had left in the world , and it was a very sad and desolate child whom Lady Coningsburgh received into her kind and motherly arms , as the post chaise in which Philip had brought me to Coningsley ...
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... knew myself to be , my society was pleasant and useful to her . Years , and the events they brought with them , proved the strength and enduring nature of her friendship , and my love to her was beyond that of a sister , for loving her ...
... knew myself to be , my society was pleasant and useful to her . Years , and the events they brought with them , proved the strength and enduring nature of her friendship , and my love to her was beyond that of a sister , for loving her ...
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... knew of home ; and could enter into , and fully sympathise with my dear friend in the strange complicated emotions which must assail the happiest bride , on leaving fond parents , and the home of her child- hood ; and I thought more of ...
... knew of home ; and could enter into , and fully sympathise with my dear friend in the strange complicated emotions which must assail the happiest bride , on leaving fond parents , and the home of her child- hood ; and I thought more of ...
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... knew Eleanor guilty , was that into which she was led by her doting love of Godfrey . For Vivia she felt all the tenderness , tempered with judgment , which she had received from her own mother ; but her pride , her hopes , her dreams ...
... knew Eleanor guilty , was that into which she was led by her doting love of Godfrey . For Vivia she felt all the tenderness , tempered with judgment , which she had received from her own mother ; but her pride , her hopes , her dreams ...
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... knew him through his dear mother's fond en- comiums , and the glowing descriptions of Vivia , whose idol , as most elder brothers are to their little sisters , he clearly was . CHAPTER V. I HAVE now arrived at an epoch in VIVIA . 39.
... knew him through his dear mother's fond en- comiums , and the glowing descriptions of Vivia , whose idol , as most elder brothers are to their little sisters , he clearly was . CHAPTER V. I HAVE now arrived at an epoch in VIVIA . 39.
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Page 87 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 21 - Music has never had so glowing an advocate as the author of these volumes. There is an amazing deal of ability displayed in them.
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Page 20 - SLICK." 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d. " No man has done more than the facetious Judge Haliburton, through the mouth of the Inimitable ' Sam,' to make the old parent country recognize and appreciate her queer transatlantic progeny. His present collection of comic stories and laughable traits is a budget of fun full of rich specimens of American humour."— Globe.
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Page 11 - NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, Comprising A WINTER PASSAGE ACROSS THE ANDES TO CHILI, WITH A VISIT TO THE GOLD REGIONS OF CALIFORNIA AND AUSTRALIA, THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS, JAVA, &c.
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Page 13 - It is an unaffected, well-written record of a tour of some 36,000 miles, and is accompanied by a number of very beautiful tinted lithographs, executed by the author. These, as well as the literary sketches in the volume, deal most largely with Southern and Spanish America, — whence the reader is afterwards taken by Lima to the Sandwich Islands, is carried to and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the...
Page 13 - Singapore and Bombay,— and so home by Egypt and Italy. The book is pleasantly written throughout, and with the picturesque variety that cannot but belong to the description of a succession of such scenes, is also full of interesting and instructive remarks."— Examiner.
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