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... Owen , now just turned seventeen , was taken from school , and initiated as pupil to the profession of archi- tect in his father's office . The remaining child was a daughter , and Owen's junior by a year . Her christian name was ...
... Owen , now just turned seventeen , was taken from school , and initiated as pupil to the profession of archi- tect in his father's office . The remaining child was a daughter , and Owen's junior by a year . Her christian name was ...
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... Owen , don't love too blindly : blindly you will love you love at all , but a little care is still possible to a well - disciplined heart . May that heart be yours as it was not mine , " father said . " Cultivate the art of renunciation ...
... Owen , don't love too blindly : blindly you will love you love at all , but a little care is still possible to a well - disciplined heart . May that heart be yours as it was not mine , " father said . " Cultivate the art of renunciation ...
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... Owen held a consultation with his sister to come to some decision on their future course , and a month was passed in waiting for answers to letters , and in the examination of schemes more or less futile . Sudden hopes that were ...
... Owen held a consultation with his sister to come to some decision on their future course , and a month was passed in waiting for answers to letters , and in the examination of schemes more or less futile . Sudden hopes that were ...
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... Owen was found , in place of his father's impressibility , a larger share of his father's pride , and a squareness of idea which , if coupled with a little more blindness , would have amounted to positive prejudice . To him humanity ...
... Owen was found , in place of his father's impressibility , a larger share of his father's pride , and a squareness of idea which , if coupled with a little more blindness , would have amounted to positive prejudice . To him humanity ...
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... Owen was to commence work in his office the following week . The same day Cytherea drew up and sent off the advertisement appended : — A YOUNG LADY is desirous of meeting with an ENGAGE- MENT as Governess or Companion . She is competent ...
... Owen was to commence work in his office the following week . The same day Cytherea drew up and sent off the advertisement appended : — A YOUNG LADY is desirous of meeting with an ENGAGE- MENT as Governess or Companion . She is competent ...
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Strona 222 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Strona 321 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Strona 240 - Like some fair tree which, fed by streams, With timely fruit doth bend ; He still shall flourish, and success All his designs attend.
Strona 89 - The instant they were in bed Miss Aldclyffe freed herself from the last remnant of restraint. She flung her arms round the young girl, and pressed her gently to her heart. "Now kiss me,
Strona 245 - Staves of sunlight slanted down through the still pool, lighting it up with wonderful distinctness. Hundreds of thousands of minute living creatures sported and tumbled in its depth with every contortion that gaiety could suggest ; perfectly happy, though consisting only of a head, or a tail, or at most a head and a tail, and all doomed to die within the twentyfour hours.
Strona 86 - All these preparations completed, she began to undress, her mind unconsciously drifting away to the contemplation of her late surprises. To look in the glass for an instant at the reflection of her own magnificent resources in face and bosom, and to mark their attractiveness unadorned, was perhaps but the natural action of a young woman who had so lately been chidden whilst passing through the harassing experience of decorating an older beauty of Miss Aldclyffe's temper. But she directly checked...
Strona 254 - They stood still and prepared to bid each other farewell. Everything before them was on a perfect level. The sun, resting on the horizon line, streamed across the ground from between copper-coloured and lilac clouds, stretched out in flats beneath a sky of pale soft green. All dark objects on the earth that lay towards the sun were overspread by a purple haze, against which groups of wailing gnats shone out, rising upwards and dancing about like sparks of fire.
Strona v - ... just as we demand from the scientific gardener, that he shall arrange, in curious knots and artificial parterres, the flowers which "nature boon" distributes freely on hill and dale.
Strona 254 - ... the dead flat of the scenery overpowered him, though he was fully alive to the beauty of that untarnished early summer green which was worn for the nonce by the poorest blade. There was something in its oppressive horizontality which too much reminded him of the arena of life ; it gave him a sense of bare equality with, and no superiority to, a single living thing under the sun.