FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... dark ; her hair is black and luxuriant , and worn in a fashion peculiar to herself ; but her manners , Monkton ! how can I convey to you their fascination ? so simple , and therefore so faultless - so mo- dest , and yet so tender - she ...
... dark ; her hair is black and luxuriant , and worn in a fashion peculiar to herself ; but her manners , Monkton ! how can I convey to you their fascination ? so simple , and therefore so faultless - so mo- dest , and yet so tender - she ...
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... dark- ness and guilt is branded in a character ineffaceable- eternal ! The one is like lightning , more likely to daz- zle than to destroy , and , divine even in its danger , it makes holy what it sears ; but the other is like that sure ...
... dark- ness and guilt is branded in a character ineffaceable- eternal ! The one is like lightning , more likely to daz- zle than to destroy , and , divine even in its danger , it makes holy what it sears ; but the other is like that sure ...
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... dark elm and larch trees . It still retained some traces both of its former consequence , and of the perils to which that consequence had exposed it . A broad ditch , overgrown with weeds , indicated the remains of what once had been a ...
... dark elm and larch trees . It still retained some traces both of its former consequence , and of the perils to which that consequence had exposed it . A broad ditch , overgrown with weeds , indicated the remains of what once had been a ...
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... dark despair from heaven ! I pass on to a wilder period of my history . The pas- sion , as yet only revealed by the eye , was now to be re- corded by the lip ; and the scene , which witnessed the first confession of the lovers , was ...
... dark despair from heaven ! I pass on to a wilder period of my history . The pas- sion , as yet only revealed by the eye , was now to be re- corded by the lip ; and the scene , which witnessed the first confession of the lovers , was ...
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... darkness was revealed in danger ; and the love , which in life was forbidden , was our comfort amid the terrors of death ! And that long and holy kiss , the first , the only moment in which our lips shared the union of our souls ! -do ...
... darkness was revealed in danger ; and the love , which in life was forbidden , was our comfort amid the terrors of death ! And that long and holy kiss , the first , the only moment in which our lips shared the union of our souls ! -do ...
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Էջ 79 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Էջ 22 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Էջ 55 - ... engrosses all the sources of thought, and excludes every object but itself; but in the latter, it is shared with all the former reflections and feelings which the past yet bequeaths us, and can neither (however powerful be its nature) constitute the whole of our happiness or woe. The love of man in his maturer years is not indeed so much a new emotion, as a revival and concentration of all his departed affections to others; and the deep and intense nature of Falkland's passion for Emily was...
Էջ 29 - Our senses may captivate us with beauty ; but in absence we forget, or by reason we can conquer so superficial an impression. Our vanity may enamour us with rank ; but the affections of vanity are traced in sand : but who can love Genius, and not feel that the sentiments it excites partake of its own intenseness and its own immortality ? It arouses, concentrates, engrosses all our emotions, even to the most subtle and concealed.
Էջ 99 - PELHAM; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN. A Novel. In 2 vols. 12mo. THE DISOWNED. A Novel. In 2 vols. 12mo. By the Author of "Pelham,"&c. [Stereotyped.) DEVEREUX. A Novel. In 2 vols. I2mo. By the Author of " Pelham,