Littell's Living Age, Bind 129Littell, son, 1876 |
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Side 163
... Olivia's child , and Olivia herself was the sick lady . The very name , too , as- sumed by the lady whose husband was abroad , ought to have furnished the clue . How dull of him not to have understood this sooner ! It was Olivia who ...
... Olivia's child , and Olivia herself was the sick lady . The very name , too , as- sumed by the lady whose husband was abroad , ought to have furnished the clue . How dull of him not to have understood this sooner ! It was Olivia who ...
Side 164
... Olivia . He should at any rate have waited to see her . Yet how wait when Olivia was in want and trouble ? And all this time he had been spending his money on amusement , living a life of luxury and pleasure . And thus reproaching ...
... Olivia . He should at any rate have waited to see her . Yet how wait when Olivia was in want and trouble ? And all this time he had been spending his money on amusement , living a life of luxury and pleasure . And thus reproaching ...
Side 165
... Olivia looked vexed , as if at the betrayal of her confidence . which it was the scene every afternoon , when Johnson the engineer attended by a footman went round to light up the house . " Olivia must be keeping her room , " he ...
... Olivia looked vexed , as if at the betrayal of her confidence . which it was the scene every afternoon , when Johnson the engineer attended by a footman went round to light up the house . " Olivia must be keeping her room , " he ...
Side 166
... Olivia herself , still neatly though cheaply clad , the only comely object in it he added , " This surely is not a fit place for you to be in . It must be a very damp house in winter , on the edge of the river , and a cold one too . I ...
... Olivia herself , still neatly though cheaply clad , the only comely object in it he added , " This surely is not a fit place for you to be in . It must be a very damp house in winter , on the edge of the river , and a cold one too . I ...
Side 167
... Olivia hesitated for an instant . In her hour might mean ' no good . And he loneliness her face brightened at the pros - stepped up to the figure to see who it was . pect of seeing her old companion again . But then she shook her head ...
... Olivia hesitated for an instant . In her hour might mean ' no good . And he loneliness her face brightened at the pros - stepped up to the figure to see who it was . pect of seeing her old companion again . But then she shook her head ...
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Side 409 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Side 172 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Side 180 - WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh...
Side 393 - You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!" But the snail replied, "Too far, too far!" and gave a look askance — Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance, Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. "What matters it how far we go?
Side 172 - It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of friendship whereof we speak: so great, as they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness: for princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune...
Side 48 - Yet let any plain honest man, before he engages in any course of action, ask himself, Is this I am going about right, or is it wrong? Is it good, or is it evil? I do not in the least doubt, but that this question would be answered agreeably to truth and virtue, by almost any fair man in almost any circumstance...
Side 86 - To earth, this weary earth, ye bring us, To guilt ye let us heedless go, Then leave repentance fierce to wring us: A moment's guilt, an age of woe!
Side 39 - I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason, which is indeed the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself ; or be misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation cannot be proved false from internal characters.
Side 66 - None but would forego his proper dowry, — Does he paint ? he fain would write a poem, — Does he write ? he fain would paint a picture.
Side 172 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another...