English fiction -- 19th century
Knights and dames I sing, Such as the times may furnish: ’tis a flight Which seems at first to need no lofty wing Plumed by Longinus, or the Stagyrite: The difficulty lies in colouring, (Keeping the due proportions still in sight,) With nature, manners which are artificial, An...
Knights and dames I sing, Such as the times may furnish: ’tis a flight Which seems at first to need no lofty wing Plumed by Longinus, or the Stagyrite: The difficulty lies in co...
2. CHAPTER II.Her chief resource was in her own high spirit, Which judged mankind at their due estimation; And for coquetry she disdained to wear it, Secure of admiration; its impression Was...
3. CHAPTER III.In the mean time, Mr. Spencer, whose general _toadying_ turn was regulated in its particular application by the accidental propinquity of the moment, now drawled out, making as...
4. CHAPTER IV.“I can assure your Ladyship, it’s quite the most _unsuitablest_ place you ever _seed_ for your Ladyship,” said Mrs. Jones, in answer to Lady Gayland’s entreaty to be shown the r...
5. CHAPTER V.Whilst Lady Gayland struggled to recover her own composure, she felt how important it was to prepare Lucy’s mind for the ordeal which she had so soon to go through in the shape...
6. CHAPTER VI.Sir North having taken his seat on what is figuratively called the “bench,” typified in this instance by a most portentous looking elbow chair, meant not only passively to confe...
7. CHAPTER VII.Few years have passed since brightly cross the way Lights from each window shot the lengthened ray, And busy looks in every face were seen, Through the warm precincts of the rei...
8. CHAPTER VIII.In the mean time there had been an arrival at the Queen’s Head. At the desire of Lady Gayland, Lucy Darnell had been sent as far as Mayton, in Sir North’s pony-phaeton, accompan...
9. CHAPTER IX.It has often struck me, that though it is said, in answer to the question, “whom does time gallop withal?--with a thief to the gallows, for, though he goes as softly as foot can...
10. CHAPTER X.The Judge took his seat on the bench at nine o’clock: on one side of him was the high-sheriff, and on the other sat an acquaintance of the sheriff’s, a fair-haired good-looking...
11. CHAPTER XI.’Twas strange: in youth, all action, and all life, Burning for pleasure, not averse from strife, Woman--the field--the ocean--all that gave Promise of gladness, peril of a grave...
12. CHAPTER XII.Once on shore, while pausing to recover himself, he gazed with a proud feeling of satisfaction on the still insensible being whom he had thus providentially rescued; for Carter...
13. CHAPTER XIII.When Lord Castleton had made his arrangement for watching the progress of the trial, and the conduct of the Darnell family in it, one of the last enquiries he had made previousl...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Alice Darnell had made good and sufficient use of the interval left her, to execute the task of explaining the past, and opening the future to the parties concerned. For before...
15. CHAPTER XV.This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the greensward; nothing she does or seems, But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place. SHAKSPEARE.
16. CHAPTER XVI.A Honeymoon! ’Tis a strange term!--an ambiguous definition of the period of time which it describes: a singular compound of two incongruous parts--honey and moon. What has the m...
17. CHAPTER XVII.It had been a _real_ Spring-day, by which we mean one not often realized, but such a Spring-day as even smoke-dried poets fancy. Lucy was seated in her own pretty boudoir, which...