The Early Called, The Stoic, and the Lansbys of Lansby HallCarey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836 - 202 من الصفحات |
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affection agitation Agnes agony Alcmenes anxious arms Athens beautiful believe beloved blessed bosom cheek child Christian Clack colour comfort consolation countenance daughter dear aunt death delighted earthly Eleusis endeavoured Epicurean Eurysthenes eyes face fair brow faith father favourite fear feelings felt flowers fond Francis Lansby gentle grave hall hand happiness Harlowe Harlowe's heard heart Heaven Herbert Ross Hermione History of Greece holy orders hope hour Julia Lansby knew lady little Flora living looked Maximinian Melcomb Merivale Merton mind Miss Julia mother mysterious Naples NATURAL THEOLOGY nature never pain pale passions perfect philosophy PHRENOLOGY pleasure pride replied scarcely seemed short silence Sir James Mackintosh Sir Walter sister smile soon sorrow soul Springfield farm Stoic stood suffer sweet taught tears tender thing thought tion VATHEK verandah voice vols Walter Lansby WASHINGTON IRVING watched wish young youth
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الصفحة 7 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
الصفحة 44 - Youth and the opening rose May look like things too glorious for decay, And smile at thee ! - but thou art not of those That wait the ripened bloom to seize their prey.
الصفحة 141 - ... than any of them has power to act upon me against my will by mere physical impulsion; and through my intelligence I am the only one who can examine all the rest. What being here below, except man, can observe others, measure, calculate, forecast their motions, their effects, and unite, so to speak, the feeling of a common existence with that of his individual existence ? What is there so absurd in the thought that all things are made for me, when I alone can relate all things to myself ? It is...
الصفحة 176 - ... as they call it, and have our ballrooms filled with the grinning sons and daughters of vanity? The loss truly is great. I wonder not at your despair.
الصفحة 175 - CHAPTER II. THE old man was sitting in a high backed oaken chair, his hands folded before him, and his eyelids closely pressed together, but evidently not in sleep — the motions of his lips and the fitful contraction of his brow, showed that the spirit was busy within. At a table beside him sat a young lady, with a shade of settled melancholy visible on her subdued, yet noble features. She turned her eyes every now and then from the paper on which she appeared to be sketching, with an expression...
الصفحة 175 - There 1 how dare you call me father, which ought to be a name of reverence, of piety, of love, when you well know that in your heart of hearts you detest me as a selfish, cold, unpitying old man ? " " You wrong me, father ! Never, even in thought, has my affection wandered away from you.
الصفحة 177 - No, not a villain, dear father, not a villain" — "Yes, madam, a villain; I say a proud, presumptuous, insensible villain. What ! and is Francis Lansby still master of that silly heart ? I charged you long ago to dismiss him from your thoughts. Julia Lansby, why have you not obeyed me ?" " I have obeyed you, father, in all things possible. I have submitted without a murmur to your commands. I have given you my promise never to speak to him, to write to him, to hear of him or from him, without your...
الصفحة 180 - But they still were happy. I gave them notice that I had put another tenant into Springfield. They left it; he procured a curacy in some distant part of the country. I married ; and, even in the first months of matrimony, thought much more of their happiness than of my own. My Harry was born, and yet I felt no diminution of my hatred. At your birth I resolved, if possible, to repay to the son the agony that had been inflicted on me by the parents. I have succeeded. One after another they died; they...
الصفحة 178 - She paused, and then added, with a tone of touching and solemn dignity—" Francis Lansby thinks of you as MY father.
الصفحة 1 - Dr. Bird has risen, in a comparatively short space of time, to a very enviable reputation ; and we have heard it asserted that his...