Lord Brackenbury

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Tauchnitz, 1880 - 1285 páginas
 

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Página 150 - Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews...
Página 276 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by Love's own hand ; by Love, Himself in love...
Página 253 - Drawing still nearer, that fountain is seen to be mingled with showers of red hot stones. Now, too, the din of the eruption becomes every moment more deafening. It is neither like thunder, nor like discharges of artillery, nor like anything in heaven or earth but itself. All other terrible noises — even the raging of the sea at its fiercest— are intermittent. But this dread reverberation fills all the space betwixt earth and sky with one solid implacable roar. Winifred sat motionless; her eyes...
Página 171 - Foy very frequently, and the more I see of him the better I like him. I thank you for making me acquainted with him. I am very much incommoded by visits and invitations, for in spite of every exertion I find it impossible to keep clear of society entirely without downright churlishness and incivility. Do let me hear from you, my dear Leslie, as soon as you can spare...
Página 109 - As the door closed on that departing group Sir Douglas sank back in his chair, and covered his face with his hands. Kenneth also seated himself with a staggering gait, and, leaning both arms across the breakfast-table, addressed Sir Douglas ; clipping his husky words, and alternately attempting to stand, and dropping back into his seat. "You think, I suppose, that these...
Página 173 - The barrels of the. pumps (AA) are to be made of brass tubing three inches and a half in length and three-quarters of an inch in...
Página 49 - The close of the first century and the beginning of the second include many women of strong character, who command our admiration. Empresses succeeded each other on the throne who were not unworthy to bear at their husband's side the proud title of Augusta which was granted to Livia only after her husband's death. Plotina accompanied Trajan through the Parthian...
Página 203 - ... it in the palm of his hand, as if it were a receptacle, for he wants it to receive the sounds that I am making. "What?
Página 7 - She had been installed there some days before any one discovered her, and she was already as much at home as if she had lived there all her life.
Página 254 - Portici next. But here is no waiting crowd. Portici is empty. Its streets are deserted; its population has fled. And yonder, suspended above the town, two streams of fire are slowly smoking down the cone. The lava shows crimson in the deepening dusk; creeping, twisting, writhing, lapping mass over mass, with something of a live horror in its motion, as of a reptile in. agony.

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