A Lost Wife: A NovelJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1889 - 288 עמודים |
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A. L. Wister answered asked Aunt Selina believe Bella better Booksellers cabman Captain King Captain Thistleby Carr CHARLES KING Charley charming Clara Colonel's Daughter cried darling dear delightful door dress Eddington Elizabeth Extra Cloth eyes face fancy father Featherstone felt Freda George Curtis German girl glad gone hand happy head heard heart husband interest J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Kaneton Scars knew lady laughed Leith living looked lover lumber-room Mark Thistleby MARLITT marriage marry mind Miss Barbara Miss Clifford Miss Fairbank morning never night novel Old Mam'selle's Secret once papa poor Ellinor postpaid receipt of price romance round Russell Square Seacliff seemed sent silent sleeve-link Slopperton smile sofa stood story strong suddenly suppose sure talking tell thing Thistleby's thought told Translated turned voice walking whilst wife window wish woman wonder York Tribune
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עמוד 132 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
עמוד 280 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
עמוד 286 - Side,"' the whole forming a complete story. 12mo. Extra cloth. $1.25. " No such faithful, candid, kindly, brilliant, and incisive presentation of English and American types has before been achieved. The wit of the story is considerable. It is written brilliantly, yet not flimsily. It is the best international novel that either side has hitherto produced. It is written by an American woman who really knows both countries, and who has shown that she possesses powers which ought to put her in the front...
עמוד 204 - Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train — Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme ; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms...
עמוד 286 - It is lightened through and through by humor as subtle and spontaneous as any that ever brightened the dark pages of life history, and is warmed by that keen sympathy and love for human nature which transfigures and ennobles everything it touches.