Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... hand to save your life . Even the ser- vants , and peasantry , and innkeepers , and pos- tillions , and boatmen , whom we have met with to - day , and whose object it must naturally be to conciliate , either have a cringing servility ...
... hand to save your life . Even the ser- vants , and peasantry , and innkeepers , and pos- tillions , and boatmen , whom we have met with to - day , and whose object it must naturally be to conciliate , either have a cringing servility ...
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... hand , and expelled from her home to perish with her helpless child in the deserts , be effaced from my heart . Laud my moderation in not saying a single word of that in- estimable shadow of a shade , the Last Supper of Leonardo da ...
... hand , and expelled from her home to perish with her helpless child in the deserts , be effaced from my heart . Laud my moderation in not saying a single word of that in- estimable shadow of a shade , the Last Supper of Leonardo da ...
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... hands can make them ; like dolls - in stiff brocade gowns and coloured glass jewels . I have been much edified with my pilgrimage of the churches . First we saw , at the church of St. Ambrose , the very identical gates which St. Ambrose ...
... hands can make them ; like dolls - in stiff brocade gowns and coloured glass jewels . I have been much edified with my pilgrimage of the churches . First we saw , at the church of St. Ambrose , the very identical gates which St. Ambrose ...
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... hand , to stop the plague , -- which it did . 6 While we were admiring the gloomy splendour of the tomb of St. Carlo Borromeo , which rivals the oriental magnificence of the Arabian tales -- an Italian who was with us , and who was ...
... hand , to stop the plague , -- which it did . 6 While we were admiring the gloomy splendour of the tomb of St. Carlo Borromeo , which rivals the oriental magnificence of the Arabian tales -- an Italian who was with us , and who was ...
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... hands of banditti , and been rescued by the peasantry , had again voluntarily gone back alone to the haunt of these robbers among the moun- tains , and had altogether disappeared . Search had been made for him in vain in all quarters 36 ...
... hands of banditti , and been rescued by the peasantry , had again voluntarily gone back alone to the haunt of these robbers among the moun- tains , and had altogether disappeared . Search had been made for him in vain in all quarters 36 ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.