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... never played the principal part in my own life . I have had many a joy , and full many a grief , too ; but they have been ever more the joys and griefs of others ; and I seem to have lived beside the events in which others have been the ...
... never played the principal part in my own life . I have had many a joy , and full many a grief , too ; but they have been ever more the joys and griefs of others ; and I seem to have lived beside the events in which others have been the ...
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... never thought or cared where he was looking - I wish some of you had told me what shall I do ? " " Think it over seriously , darling — it seems to me to have many advantages - you would be mistress of your old home , and near papa and ...
... never thought or cared where he was looking - I wish some of you had told me what shall I do ? " " Think it over seriously , darling — it seems to me to have many advantages - you would be mistress of your old home , and near papa and ...
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... never spoke ; and two circumstances which occurred about this time conspired to decide me in favour of Mr Lyle's suit . One was the open and excessive admiration of Lord Castleford , who returned from Cambridge about this time , and ...
... never spoke ; and two circumstances which occurred about this time conspired to decide me in favour of Mr Lyle's suit . One was the open and excessive admiration of Lord Castleford , who returned from Cambridge about this time , and ...
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... never failing to come and give me personally the details he knew I loved to hear , of his wife's im- proving health , and Vivia's daily increasing resemblance to her mother , when one morning in spring , as I was seated at my solitary ...
... never failing to come and give me personally the details he knew I loved to hear , of his wife's im- proving health , and Vivia's daily increasing resemblance to her mother , when one morning in spring , as I was seated at my solitary ...
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... broken carriage , the dying horses , and one figure never to be forgotten , the fair hair fallen back from the death - like brow , and the whole form prone in the helplessness of death . I saw all this , for the spirit has eyes VIVIA . 45.
... broken carriage , the dying horses , and one figure never to be forgotten , the fair hair fallen back from the death - like brow , and the whole form prone in the helplessness of death . I saw all this , for the spirit has eyes VIVIA . 45.
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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.
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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 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...
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