The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 - 920 страница |
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... viz . an ardent , inexhausti- ble , and insatiable curiosity . She had not indeed improved like the rest of the human race , when , as walking babies , they tear in pieces the toys that are given them , THE LAIRDS OF FIFE .
... viz . an ardent , inexhausti- ble , and insatiable curiosity . She had not indeed improved like the rest of the human race , when , as walking babies , they tear in pieces the toys that are given them , THE LAIRDS OF FIFE .
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... rest , and of an insatiableness of disposition , the dis- eased cravings of which no fecundity could supply or content . Her husband had been dead for several years . She had no family , and what was more singular , she had no immediate ...
... rest , and of an insatiableness of disposition , the dis- eased cravings of which no fecundity could supply or content . Her husband had been dead for several years . She had no family , and what was more singular , she had no immediate ...
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... rest - bed of his ancestry , though built upon the site , and partly with the materials of an old castle or chateau , had been but lately so circumvented and surrounded with debts , bonds , mortgages , and annuities , that unless it was ...
... rest - bed of his ancestry , though built upon the site , and partly with the materials of an old castle or chateau , had been but lately so circumvented and surrounded with debts , bonds , mortgages , and annuities , that unless it was ...
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... rest of his connexions some little time after . The next person carried out of this new raised burying - place was Mr Fife himself , and with his remains were dismissed the nest of state attendants , who had already proved themselves ...
... rest of his connexions some little time after . The next person carried out of this new raised burying - place was Mr Fife himself , and with his remains were dismissed the nest of state attendants , who had already proved themselves ...
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... rest sounds perfect nonsense , don't you think ? " " Because you do not observe that you should be taking the bass clef all this time , " said Miss Brown , sliding into the now abdicated seat . And she jingle - jangled through a hotch ...
... rest sounds perfect nonsense , don't you think ? " " Because you do not observe that you should be taking the bass clef all this time , " said Miss Brown , sliding into the now abdicated seat . And she jingle - jangled through a hotch ...
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agreeable Akenside amongst answer aunt began better body called carriage Cecilia clack cold Colonel Brown compliments crasy cried Miss cried Mrs Fife daughter dear Miss Leslie dear Mrs Fife dexterity dinner door Dudd Edmonstones father favour Fife-hall Fife's Fifeshire friends game at chess gentleman Gregory happy hear heard Hochytoch honour hope Horn Regular Hyndford intend invitation Jemima John Lady Methodical lady's laugh look Lord Aloof Lums Lumsdaine's M'Pech Ma'am Madam Mademoiselle Antoinette Madrake Madrake's Marchmont Maringle mean mind Miss Brown Miss Kicklecackle Miss M'Tavish Monotony morning never night o'clock observed occasion odd trick once papa party person play poor pray pretended pretty racter rake rest returned seat seems sometimes sort Squeake suppose talk taste tell thing thought tion uncon voice vomitory Vonpepper and M'Ginger wish wonder young lady
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Страница 74 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.
Страница 14 - And as an owl that in a barn Sees a mouse creeping in the corn, Sits still, and shuts his round blue eyes As if he slept, until he spies The little beast within his reach, Then starts, and seizes on the wretch...
Страница 260 - ... may be invigorated, or their efforts renewed, by subsequent considerations. The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure ; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul ; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.