Ernest Maltravers Or The EleusiniaJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1874 - 575 |
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... feel who knows that the eye of a tiger is on him , and who , while in suspense he has regained his courage , foresees that sooner or later the spring must come ; the suspense itself becomes an agony , and he desires to expedite the ...
... feel who knows that the eye of a tiger is on him , and who , while in suspense he has regained his courage , foresees that sooner or later the spring must come ; the suspense itself becomes an agony , and he desires to expedite the ...
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... feel their associations , like that which belongs to some ancient and holy edifice . They are the cathedral aisles of Nature , with their darkened vistas , and columned trunks , and arches of mighty foliage . But in ordinary times the ...
... feel their associations , like that which belongs to some ancient and holy edifice . They are the cathedral aisles of Nature , with their darkened vistas , and columned trunks , and arches of mighty foliage . But in ordinary times the ...
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... feeling of strangeness toward him which he had experienced when he first received him back from Cleveland , and took Cleve- land's directions about his health and so forth . It always seemed to him as if his friend shared his right to ...
... feeling of strangeness toward him which he had experienced when he first received him back from Cleveland , and took Cleve- land's directions about his health and so forth . It always seemed to him as if his friend shared his right to ...
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... feel a doubt lest I should some day or other sponge upon his lordship for a place . Lord Saxingham is in the administration , you know . Somehow or other , I have an equivocal amphibious kind of place in London society , which I don't ...
... feel a doubt lest I should some day or other sponge upon his lordship for a place . Lord Saxingham is in the administration , you know . Somehow or other , I have an equivocal amphibious kind of place in London society , which I don't ...
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... feel acutely , yet ex- press tamely . These persons always have in their char- acter an unspeakable kind of pathos - a court civilization produces many of them - and the French memoirs of the last century are particularly fraught with ...
... feel acutely , yet ex- press tamely . These persons always have in their char- acter an unspeakable kind of pathos - a court civilization produces many of them - and the French memoirs of the last century are particularly fraught with ...
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Strona 161 - When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea! For thoughts, like waves that glide by night, Are stillest when they shine; Mine earthly love lies hushed in light Beneath the heaven of thine.
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Strona 160 - He took the instrument with a slight grimace of modesty, and then saying to Madame de Montaigne, " There is a song composed by a young friend of mine which is much admired by the ladies, though to me it seems a little too sentimental...
Strona 40 - Maltravers had abundant resources in himself. He placed Shakspeare and Schiller on his table, and lighted his German meerschaum — he read till he became inspired, and then he wrote — and when he had composed a few stanzas he was not contented till he had set them to music and tried their melody with his voice. For he had all the passion of a German for song and music— that wild Maltravers ! —and his voice was sweet, his taste consummate, his science profound. As the sun puts out a star, so...
Strona 168 - People talk about thinking — but for my part I never think, except when I sit down to write." I believe this is not a very common case, for people who don't write think as well as people who do...