Discipline: A Novel, Volume 2Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832 - 476 pages |
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acquaintance affection amusement answered began believe bestow better blessing Boswell Burgh carriage Cecil Charlotte Charlotte Graham child companion countenance creature cried dear delight door East Lothian Edinburgh Edmunds Ellen endeavoured enquired expressed eyes face father favour fear feeling felt Fido folly girl give Glen Eredine habits hand heard heart Heaven Henry Highland honour hope hour human humour instantly Joanna Baillie Juliet kind knew labour Lady Maria Lady St leave less look Lord Frederick Maitland MARY BRUNTON means ment mind Miss Arnold Miss Graham Miss Mortimer Miss Mortimer's Miss Percy morning mother nature never night obliged once perhaps person pleasure poor pride racter recollection returned scarcely Scotland seemed sentiments sigh smile soon sorrow soul spirit stranger sure tears tell temper thing thought Tom Hamilton trifles truth turned uttered vanity voice wish woman words
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Page 235 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 438 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 424 - And seldom was a snood amid Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid. Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care ; And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind.
Page 377 - So manifold in cares, whose every day Brings its own evil with it, makes it less : For he has wings that neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. No nook so narrow but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large.
Page 450 - Hail, awful scenes, that calm the troubled breast, And woo the weary to profound repose ! Can Passion's wildest uproar lay to rest, And whisper comfort to the man of woes ! Here Innocence may wander, safe from foes, And Contemplation soar on seraph wings.
Page 9 - ... labours. Perhaps, too, a circumstance which I remember to have happened about this time, might have had more weight than she was aware of in prompting the attempt. She had often urged me to undertake some literary work ; and once she appealed to an intimate friend who was present, whether he would not be my publisher. He consented readily ; but added, that he would, at least as willingly, publish a book of her own writing. This seemed, at the time, to strike her as something the possibility of...
Page 4 - Mary became, under her mother's care, a considerable proficient in music, and an excellent French and Italian scholar. From these languages she was much accustomed to translate ; and there is no other habit of her early life which tends, in any degree, to account for the great facility and correctness with which her subsequent compositions were written. When she passed the bounds of mere childhood, the defects, under which her early education must otherwise have laboured, were remedied partly by...
Page 16 - I sew and chat, all the evening. Your friend Laura proceeds with a slow but regular pace ; a short step every day — no more ! She has advanced sixty paces, alias pages, since you left her. She is at present very comfortably situate, if the foolish thing had the sense to think so ; she is on a visit to Norwood, where she is to remain for a few days ; and a very snug...
Page 4 - ... which adorn a court, than to those which are useful in domestic life. She was, however, a person of great natural acuteness, and of very lively wit ; and her conversation, original though desultory, had no doubt considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assiduous, too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and Mary became, under her mother's care, a considerable proficient in music, and an excellent French and Italian scholar. From these languages...
Page 48 - The clothes in which she was laid in the grave had been selected by herself; she herself had chosen and labelled some tokens of remembrance for her more intimate friends ; and the intimations of her death were sent round from a list in her own handwriting. But these anticipations, though so deeply fixed, neither shook her fortitude, nor diminished her cheerfulness. They neither altered her wish to live, nor the ardour with which she prepared to meet the duties of returning health, if returning health...