The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 25-26Ward and Lock, 1868 |
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... seemed to be scarcely past childhood . Drearily she sat there , doing nothing . Her thoughts were back in the old château . If they wandered now and then to a darkened chamber , to the sharp outlines of a dead face to which her own had ...
... seemed to be scarcely past childhood . Drearily she sat there , doing nothing . Her thoughts were back in the old château . If they wandered now and then to a darkened chamber , to the sharp outlines of a dead face to which her own had ...
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... seemed to go and come with her breath and make her human ; and so much did she embody one's ideal of the first woman , that no one won- dered when all called her Eve , although her name was Rosamond , and she was the Rose of the World ...
... seemed to go and come with her breath and make her human ; and so much did she embody one's ideal of the first woman , that no one won- dered when all called her Eve , although her name was Rosamond , and she was the Rose of the World ...
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... seemed laden with the morning murmur of bees and blossoms ; it was but a verse or two , with a refrain that went repeating all the honeyed burden , till Luigi's face fairly burned with pleasure , where he stood at timid distance in the ...
... seemed laden with the morning murmur of bees and blossoms ; it was but a verse or two , with a refrain that went repeating all the honeyed burden , till Luigi's face fairly burned with pleasure , where he stood at timid distance in the ...
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... seemed the speech of another planet , an orb of song , the delicate sound lost , when at sunset the threaded mist broke up and streamed away in fire , but coming again , as if they were haunted by the viewless voices of the air , when ...
... seemed the speech of another planet , an orb of song , the delicate sound lost , when at sunset the threaded mist broke up and streamed away in fire , but coming again , as if they were haunted by the viewless voices of the air , when ...
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... seemed more like a hulk drawn up on shore than any house , but matted from ground to chimney in a smother of wood- bine . " A picturesque place , " said one of the chevaliers . And a picturesque body lives in it , " replied another ...
... seemed more like a hulk drawn up on shore than any house , but matted from ground to chimney in a smother of wood- bine . " A picturesque place , " said one of the chevaliers . And a picturesque body lives in it , " replied another ...
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Page 87 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
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Page 172 - Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.