Tales and Novels: Murad the Unlucky. The manufacturers. The contrast. The grateful negro. To-morrowHarper & brothers, 1835 |
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Babet Berryl better Bolingbroke Brisac Burke carriage château de Fleury Clonbrony's Colambre's Coulanges Count O'Halloran countenance Dareville daughter dear door Dublin Emilie Emilie's Emma eyes father favour feelings Fleury's fortune Garraghty gentleman girl give Grace Granby gratitude Griselda hand happy hear heard heart Heathcock heroine honour hope husband Ireland Irish Killpatrick knew Lady Clonbrony Lady Dashfort Lady Isabel Lady Littleton ladyship lambre Larry laugh live look Lord Clonbrony lordship ma'am madame mamma manner Manon marriage marry Maurice mind Miss Broadhurst Miss Nugent Mlle modern Griselda Mordicai morning mother Nettleby never night obliged Oranmore person Petito plase pleasure poor recollected Reynolds Sir James Brooke sister Frances smile Somers soon speak sure talk tell temper there's thing thought tion Tracassier turned Victoire Victoire's voice wife wish woman word young
Popular passages
Page 63 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 29 - So, bowing to the ladies, he departed. "Really, I am glad that man is gone," said Lady Clonbrony. ' ' What a relief to one's ears ! I am sure I wonder, my lord, how you can bear to carry that strange creature always about with you — so vulgar as he is." "He diverts me," said Lord Clonbrony, "while many of your correct-mannered fine ladies or gentlemen put me to sleep.
Page 234 - Turner's Sacred History of the World, attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son.
Page 237 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 192 - Mr. Granby? Dear! Why did you not make me guess? I should have guessed him directly. But why do you call him our friend? I am sure he is no friend of mine, nor ever was.
Page 231 - THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA ; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.
Page 233 - Historical and Descriptive Account of British India. From the most Remote Period to the Present Time.
Page 231 - The History of Modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ; and a view of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris in 1763.
Page 209 - If of these the whole power is not accurately delivered, it must be remembered, that while our language is yet living, and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks it, these words are hourly shifting their relations, and can no more be ascertained in a dictionary, than a grove, in the agitation of a storm, can be accurately delineated from its picture in the water.
Page 232 - PALESTINE, OR THE HOLY LAND. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By the Rev. M. RUSSELL, LL.D.