Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... never permanently penetrated . It was their last station ; for they found it expedient -like the fox and the grapes - to discover that the barbarians beyond it were not worth con- quering . To guard their own conquests against these ...
... never permanently penetrated . It was their last station ; for they found it expedient -like the fox and the grapes - to discover that the barbarians beyond it were not worth con- quering . To guard their own conquests against these ...
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... Never should the heroic re- sistance be forgotten , which they made against the tyranny of the French ; * who , by the aid of the Austrians , at last crushed their desperate efforts , and laid waste the whole country with fire and sword ...
... Never should the heroic re- sistance be forgotten , which they made against the tyranny of the French ; * who , by the aid of the Austrians , at last crushed their desperate efforts , and laid waste the whole country with fire and sword ...
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... never , in passing along a road , long to strike up the tempting looking bye - paths that diverged from it , especially if they led up amongst woodlands or forest scenery - where the busy fancy peoples the unseen walk with all its ...
... never , in passing along a road , long to strike up the tempting looking bye - paths that diverged from it , especially if they led up amongst woodlands or forest scenery - where the busy fancy peoples the unseen walk with all its ...
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... never have made it the scene of his affect- ed sentimentality . But as it was , at that time , a spot of complete seclusion , and as Frenchmen then never travelled , except when and where they were obliged to take une voyage , ' — an ...
... never have made it the scene of his affect- ed sentimentality . But as it was , at that time , a spot of complete seclusion , and as Frenchmen then never travelled , except when and where they were obliged to take une voyage , ' — an ...
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... never can the soul - touching image of Hagar leading Ishmael in her 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 ...
... never can the soul - touching image of Hagar leading Ishmael in her 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 ...
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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.