FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... thousand events ; if it be the good fortune of this volume to meet with such , it is to them that I fearlessly intrust it - not , indeed , to be approved in its execution , but , at least , to be acquitted in its design . It now only ...
... thousand events ; if it be the good fortune of this volume to meet with such , it is to them that I fearlessly intrust it - not , indeed , to be approved in its execution , but , at least , to be acquitted in its design . It now only ...
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... thousands who would , with a credulous fanaticism , fling themselves as victims before that unrecompensing Mo- loch which they term the Public . Living , then , much by myself , but reflecting much upon the world , I learned to love ...
... thousands who would , with a credulous fanaticism , fling themselves as victims before that unrecompensing Mo- loch which they term the Public . Living , then , much by myself , but reflecting much upon the world , I learned to love ...
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... thousand thou- sand thoughts rush upon me , and almost suffocate me with the variety and confusion of the emotions they awaken ! I am agitated alike with the rapture of writing to you , and with the impossibility of expressing the ...
... thousand thou- sand thoughts rush upon me , and almost suffocate me with the variety and confusion of the emotions they awaken ! I am agitated alike with the rapture of writing to you , and with the impossibility of expressing the ...
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... thousand temptations to sin - woman has but one ; if she cannot resist it , she has no claim upon our mercy . The heavens are just ! her own guilt is her punishment ! Should these pages , at this moment , meet the eyes of one who has ...
... thousand temptations to sin - woman has but one ; if she cannot resist it , she has no claim upon our mercy . The heavens are just ! her own guilt is her punishment ! Should these pages , at this moment , meet the eyes of one who has ...
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... thousands of unfa- thomed years had looked upon the changes of this nether world , gleamed pale , and pure , and steadfast upon their burning but transitory vow . In a few years what of the condemnation or the recorders of that vow ...
... thousands of unfa- thomed years had looked upon the changes of this nether world , gleamed pale , and pure , and steadfast upon their burning but transitory vow . In a few years what of the condemnation or the recorders of that vow ...
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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,