United States or British Virgin Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Epistles for the Ladies" was not the first "attempt to employ the ornaments of romance in the decoration of religion" nor the best, but along with the pious substance the author sometimes adopts an almost Johnsonian weightiness of style, as when Ciamara gives to Sophronia an account of the finishing of a fine building she had been at an infinite expense in erecting, with some moral reflections on the vanity and disappointment of all sub-lunary expectations.
She can find it out for herself, which you may be sure she will do when she comes back from the continent, if indeed her own happiness with Jack has not blinded her to all sub-lunary matters. "Well, goodbye, dear. You will forgive my saying that I am disappointed in you, terribly disappointed in you." "I must try to put up with that, Carrie.
Her large dark eyes had a far-away look of utter abstraction from all sub-lunary matters that I have never seen in anyone besides. Masses of wavy black hair were loosely coiled over her head, round a high Spanish comb, and half concealed her brow in a dusky cloud. At first sight the black velvet dress, which swept around her in heavy folds, seemed rather an unsuitable costume for so young a girl.
Word Of The Day