Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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Página 39 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Página 116 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Página 306 - What are they but His jewels Of right celestial worth? What are they but the ladder Set up to heaven on earth?
Página 102 - ... overlying the chalk, some of them containing shells of species identical with those now living, were looked upon as very modern, and as the creations of yesterday, in comparison with the rocks of the higher Alps, it may well appear a startling proposition to learn that the clay of London was in the course of accumulation as marine mud at a time when the ocean still rolled its waves over the space now occupied by some of the loftiest Alpine summits.
Página 305 - It is well to be off with the old love Before we are on with the new...
Página 190 - This foresight on my father's part led him to make plans for my education for which I had to suffer. He sedulously concealed my expectations of wealth from me, and during the fairest years of my youth compelled me, for my own good, to endure the burden of anxiety and hardship that presses upon a young man who has his own way to make in the world.
Página 180 - I can do to keep this car in the middle of the road — if you can call it a road. . . . Fumin' and frettin
Página 294 - She was tall and very slight, with a great deal of blonde hair, put up in a loose knot at the back of her head, and some few short locks curling about her temples and small, delicate ears.
Página 259 - He put out his hand and caught her by the arm, and drew her towards him authoritatively. "You are not going to escape me so easily," he said, pale to the lips with strongest feeling.