Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Wells and Lilly, 1826 - 284 էջ |
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... eye , and with renewed spirit she exclaimed- " But , be- fore I go , I shall see you married to the man you love ; I shall see you in the possession of the happiness it has been the wish of my heart you should enjoy . You know how I ...
... eye , and with renewed spirit she exclaimed- " But , be- fore I go , I shall see you married to the man you love ; I shall see you in the possession of the happiness it has been the wish of my heart you should enjoy . You know how I ...
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... eye , it is offen- sive to behold the miserable state of cultivation and the wretched stock in France . I say noth- ing of the picturesque , for it would puzzle even Dr. Syntax himself to find any thing approaching to it . " The rest of ...
... eye , it is offen- sive to behold the miserable state of cultivation and the wretched stock in France . I say noth- ing of the picturesque , for it would puzzle even Dr. Syntax himself to find any thing approaching to it . " The rest of ...
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... continued its rapid course but for the natural sense of the postillions , who stopped of their own accord ; for the two men servants behind stared at us 6 with gaping mouths and eyes , but took no other DISASTERS . 31.
... continued its rapid course but for the natural sense of the postillions , who stopped of their own accord ; for the two men servants behind stared at us 6 with gaping mouths and eyes , but took no other DISASTERS . 31.
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A Novel ... Charlotte Anne Eaton. with gaping mouths and eyes , but took no other notice of us ; and their master , who was asleep in a corner of the carriage , did not observe us at all . After a short parley between the postil- lions ...
A Novel ... Charlotte Anne Eaton. with gaping mouths and eyes , but took no other notice of us ; and their master , who was asleep in a corner of the carriage , did not observe us at all . After a short parley between the postil- lions ...
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... eyes . We dined at the Soupér of the Table d'Hote , and were much amused with the lively rattle of our married French friend - and the sighing sentimentality of the unmarried ' Berger . ' " Our voyage down the Saone next morning to ...
... eyes . We dined at the Soupér of the Table d'Hote , and were much amused with the lively rattle of our married French friend - and the sighing sentimentality of the unmarried ' Berger . ' " Our voyage down the Saone next morning to ...
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Էջ 119 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy impart.
Էջ 100 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.
Էջ 2 - CALEDONIA ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Էջ 146 - THE King of France, with twenty thousand men, Went up the hill, and then came down again ; The King of Spain, with twenty thousand more, Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
Էջ 234 - The mists boil up around the glaciers ; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.
Էջ 90 - Is there a heart that music cannot melt ? Alas ! how is that rugged heart forlorn ! Is there who ne'er those mystic transports felt Of solitude and melancholy born ? He needs not woo the Muse ; he is her scorn : The sophist's rope of cobweb he shall twine ; Mope o'er the schoolman's peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life in Mammon's dirty mine ; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine.
Էջ 77 - Walked forth to tell his beads, And he met with a lady fair, Clad in a pilgrim's weeds. " Now Christ thee save, thou reverend friar ! I pray thee tell to me, If ever at yon holy shrine My true love thou didst see." " And how should I know your true love From many another one...
Էջ 234 - For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable— pipes in the liberal air, Mix'd with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes. Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me!
Էջ 160 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, hi a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Էջ 95 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O : Her 'prentice han' she try'd on man, An