Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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Página 84
... escape , -- for my flight was rapid , -I heard no sound of pursuit , -and the mule seemed to know its way by instinct , and carried * Your money directly . me in safety - scarcely relaxing its speed , through 84 THE CAPTURE .
... escape , -- for my flight was rapid , -I heard no sound of pursuit , -and the mule seemed to know its way by instinct , and carried * Your money directly . me in safety - scarcely relaxing its speed , through 84 THE CAPTURE .
Página 87
... escape ( though unavailing ) , from the first robber who acted as scout ; and that I was such a ' brava ragazza ' that he would do every thing for me in his power . I told him ( for even his rugged heart , I thought , might be won by ...
... escape ( though unavailing ) , from the first robber who acted as scout ; and that I was such a ' brava ragazza ' that he would do every thing for me in his power . I told him ( for even his rugged heart , I thought , might be won by ...
Página 101
... escape ; and there was but too much reason to fear that they had turned upon him , and probably murdered him . An immense reward was offered for his discovery , dead or alive , and treble the amount for the apprehension of his murderers ...
... escape ; and there was but too much reason to fear that they had turned upon him , and probably murdered him . An immense reward was offered for his discovery , dead or alive , and treble the amount for the apprehension of his murderers ...
Página 102
... escape I had myself experienced . The banditti who were taken , said if I had not by en- chantment and the power of the Blue Devils , ' which possessed me , thrown them into that deep sleep , I should have been killed at the hour that ...
... escape I had myself experienced . The banditti who were taken , said if I had not by en- chantment and the power of the Blue Devils , ' which possessed me , thrown them into that deep sleep , I should have been killed at the hour that ...
Página 152
... escape from Breadal- bane , and she was compelled to listen to the story of his love . She found it , to her great surprise , nearly impossible to convince him that she really never would marry him ; so effectually had Lady Hunlocke ...
... escape from Breadal- bane , and she was compelled to listen to the story of his love . She found it , to her great surprise , nearly impossible to convince him that she really never would marry him ; so effectually had Lady Hunlocke ...
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agony Alps asked banditti beautiful Bellairs Blue Devils boat Breadal Breadalbane Brieg Cadenabbia Caroline St Caroline's Chiavenna child Choiseul Clair Cleve Colonel Cleveland Count Montini countenance daughter dear deep delight Diogenes dreadful dress English escape exclaimed eyes father feelings felt Florence Grindelwald hand happiness head heard heart heaven honour hope Hunlocke's instantly Italian Italy knew Lady Hunlocke Lady Montfort Lady St lake Lake Lugano Lake of Como land laughing learnt letter Lindsay Lindsay's look Lord Lumbercourt Lord Montfort Lord Roslin Lord Setoun lover Lugano M'cMuckleman Margaret St marriage marry Milan mind misery Miss Emily Harriet Miss St morning mountains never night once party pass passion Porlezza promise refuse road robbers Sbirri scarcely scene seemed shew smile soon Swiss tell thing thou thought tion told tone tree utter Valais village voice wife woman words
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Página 78 - She that has that is clad in complete steel ; And, like a quiver'd nymph, with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds, Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity...
Página 52 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 283 - Kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope.
Página 78 - Chi va lontan da la sua patria, vede cose, da quel che già credea, lontane; che narrandole poi, non se gli crede, e stimato bugiardo ne rimane: che '1 sciocco vulgo non gli vuol dar fede, se non le vede e tocca chiare e piane.
Página 184 - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or hiftory, The courfe of true love never did run fmooth : But, either it was different in blood ; Her. O crofs ! too high to be enthrall'd to low ! Lyf.
Página 196 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and tears
Página 70 - Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins...
Página 162 - Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travelers must be content.
Página 53 - Though higher of the genial bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem, So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
Página 1 - Bears me remote, o'er Gallia's woody bounds, O'er the cloud-piercing Alps remote ; beyond The vale of Arno purpled with the vine, Beyond the Umbrian and Etruscan hills, To Latium's wide champain, forlorn and waste, Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave Mournfully rolls.