Continental Adventures: A Novel ...Hurst & Robinson, 1826 |
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... passion for dress , for admiration , gallantry , shew , expense , dissipation , and too often gambling -- that I can only hope the rest who are away , may be better specimens of the fair Italians . One of the great pleasures of their ...
... passion for dress , for admiration , gallantry , shew , expense , dissipation , and too often gambling -- that I can only hope the rest who are away , may be better specimens of the fair Italians . One of the great pleasures of their ...
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... passion for finery to the most extravagant height - and even mothers with grown - up families , nay grandmothers , vie with each other in this ruin- ous contest , and think it a disgrace to appear at a gala twice in the same dress . I ...
... passion for finery to the most extravagant height - and even mothers with grown - up families , nay grandmothers , vie with each other in this ruin- ous contest , and think it a disgrace to appear at a gala twice in the same dress . I ...
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... passion ; and talking plain English ! ' Frailty ! thy name is woman , ' he exclaimed , ad- dressing me in a tone which made my blood freeze . ' O woman , woman , woman ! False , perjured , de- ceitful woman ! I know thee - I know thee ...
... passion ; and talking plain English ! ' Frailty ! thy name is woman , ' he exclaimed , ad- dressing me in a tone which made my blood freeze . ' O woman , woman , woman ! False , perjured , de- ceitful woman ! I know thee - I know thee ...
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... passion --- Dio- genes was a Greek , thou art an Englishman . ' The mask for a few moments seemed confounded . Then in a tone of emphatic bitterness he said --- ' And I know thee , --- too well , thou dissembler ! Thou whose consummate ...
... passion --- Dio- genes was a Greek , thou art an Englishman . ' The mask for a few moments seemed confounded . Then in a tone of emphatic bitterness he said --- ' And I know thee , --- too well , thou dissembler ! Thou whose consummate ...
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... passion which could be forgotten . It was the very habit of my soul . During your absence in the Peninsula , the con- stant intercourse necessarily arising from our near VOL . III . 12 neighbourhood , strengthened her friendship for me ...
... passion which could be forgotten . It was the very habit of my soul . During your absence in the Peninsula , the con- stant intercourse necessarily arising from our near VOL . III . 12 neighbourhood , strengthened her friendship for me ...
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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.