FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... moment in which the buoyancy of my spirit was first broken by real anguish , the losses of the heart were repaired by the experience of the mind . I passed at once , like Melmoth , from youth to age . What were any longer to me the ...
... moment in which the buoyancy of my spirit was first broken by real anguish , the losses of the heart were repaired by the experience of the mind . I passed at once , like Melmoth , from youth to age . What were any longer to me the ...
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... as I increased my knowledge of others , I shrunk with a deeper disap- pointment and dejection into my own resources . The first moment of real happiness which I experienced for a whole year , was when I found myself about 14 FALKLAND .
... as I increased my knowledge of others , I shrunk with a deeper disap- pointment and dejection into my own resources . The first moment of real happiness which I experienced for a whole year , was when I found myself about 14 FALKLAND .
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... moment to himself . Would that you could see me at this instant in the luxury of my summer retreat , surrounded by the trees , the waters , the wild birds , and the hum , the glow , the exultation which teem visibly and audibly through ...
... moment to himself . Would that you could see me at this instant in the luxury of my summer retreat , surrounded by the trees , the waters , the wild birds , and the hum , the glow , the exultation which teem visibly and audibly through ...
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... moments . I do not know if you ever felt that existence was ebb- ing away , without being put to its full value : as for me , I am never conscious of life without being also conscious that it is not enjoyed to the utmost . This is a ...
... moments . I do not know if you ever felt that existence was ebb- ing away , without being put to its full value : as for me , I am never conscious of life without being also conscious that it is not enjoyed to the utmost . This is a ...
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... moment we can find a single being whose ideas are more agreeable to us than our own . I have not , I think , yet described to you the person of Lady Emily . She is tall and slightly , yet beautifully , formed . The ill health which ...
... moment we can find a single being whose ideas are more agreeable to us than our own . I have not , I think , yet described to you the person of Lady Emily . She is tall and slightly , yet beautifully , formed . The ill health which ...
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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,