The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 |
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66 My dear already amongst Augustus Maringle Bertie body bolique brother Campbell Hyndford Captain Black Champ Fleury Charles Suttie Cicisbeo Colonel Brown cottage ornée Countess cried dance daughter dear Mrs Fife death Devil's Elixir Diabolique's dine Don Pompadosa Dudd exclaimed eyes favour feel Fife's fortune Francis Tinto hand happiness Hochytoch Honourable Charles James Horn Regular Hyndshaw Lady Aloof Lady Lumberfield Lady Methodical Lady Montgomery Lady Touchmenot Ladyship look Lord Aloof Lord Fiddle Lord Fiddle-faddle Lord Liberality M'Ginger M'Pech Mademoiselle Antoinette Madrake Madrake's Maringle's marriage marry Miss Aloof Miss Hynd Miss Hyndford Miss Kicklecackle Miss Lætitia Alicia Miss Leslie Miss Methodical Monotony Monsieur Diabo Monsieur Diabolique murder necklace never night occasion once party perhaps person pray quadrille rest returned seemed shew sieur Diabolique Sir George Terrorfield suppose suspect talk thing thought tion voice wish young lady
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Page 24 - Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy...
Page 256 - Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit of endless comfort here, Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night-visions may befriend (as sung above) : Our waking dreams are fatal. How I dreamt Of things impossible ! (Could sleep do more ?) Of joys perpetual in perpetual change...
Page 114 - And Ashmole's baby-house is, in his view, Britannia's golden mine, a rich Peru ! How his eyes languish ! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore ! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin. That touch'd the ruff, that touch'd Queen Bess's .chin.
Page 56 - All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Page 267 - Lie dark and jarring with perturbed force, And gnashing with impenitent remorse ; That juggling fiend — who never spoke before— But cries ' I warn'd thee !
Page 130 - Beyond the rock," replied the shoal, in full chorus; "will this content you? for we do not delight in expanding our mouths." — "It will," returned the princess; "I am not to learn that you are not used to long conversations; I will leave you therefore to repose, though I had other questions to propound.
Page 257 - ... unawares, it was presently poisoned by the withering recollection — " I am a blasted branch — the tremendous gale of public disgrace has passed over all the buds of my promise, and I am nothing !" Ij; will hardly be thought how fierce a havock this event made with my constitution.