Harold the ExileJ. Gillet, printer, 1819 - 322 páginas |
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... present fixed our abode .. To a mind depressed by recent calamity , and a frame languid from long protracted disease , the hurry of a gay and crowded metropolis , and the petty cares and plea- sures of fashionable society , present but ...
... present fixed our abode .. To a mind depressed by recent calamity , and a frame languid from long protracted disease , the hurry of a gay and crowded metropolis , and the petty cares and plea- sures of fashionable society , present but ...
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... present residence , that you may be able in your solitary reveries to form some definite idea of the spot which your sister inhabits ; but description must fail in conveying to you an adequate idea of the fairy cottage from whence I now ...
... present residence , that you may be able in your solitary reveries to form some definite idea of the spot which your sister inhabits ; but description must fail in conveying to you an adequate idea of the fairy cottage from whence I now ...
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... present , ends this adventure ; which , with all the delight- ful romance and novelty that embellish it , will want , I fear , the grand requisites of such delectable histories , a dénouement , a lover , and a wedding . A few years ago ...
... present , ends this adventure ; which , with all the delight- ful romance and novelty that embellish it , will want , I fear , the grand requisites of such delectable histories , a dénouement , a lover , and a wedding . A few years ago ...
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... present conclude my eventful history , as the hero of it is just awakened , and will require assist- ance , to amuse the heavy hours of a slow convalescence - peculiarly heavy to him , in whom the dark shadowings of an ac- cidental or ...
... present conclude my eventful history , as the hero of it is just awakened , and will require assist- ance , to amuse the heavy hours of a slow convalescence - peculiarly heavy to him , in whom the dark shadowings of an ac- cidental or ...
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... present si- tuation ; and , after giving him a general assurance that he was with friends , who were truly anxious for his recovery , I stole , unobserved , from the room , and re- tired to my own apartment , with a mind lightened of a ...
... present si- tuation ; and , after giving him a general assurance that he was with friends , who were truly anxious for his recovery , I stole , unobserved , from the room , and re- tired to my own apartment , with a mind lightened of a ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration affection agitation Albina amusement anguish answered appearance arrival attachment attention awakened beauty beheld believe beloved Berrington bosom brielle CHAP charms cheek Colonel Leslie conduct continued dear Delamere delight Earl Earl of Marchmont emotion endeavoured excited exclaimed Harold expression eyes fancy fatal feelings Fitzalbin friendship Gabrielle Gabrielle Montgomery Gabrielle's gaze genius hand happiness Harley Street hastily heart Heaven honour hope hour indulgence influence James's Square Lady Barbara Lady G Lady Harold Lady March Lady Marchmont ladyship latter length Lime Grove lips Llanivar Lord Harold Lord Marchmont lovely manners melancholy ment mind Miss Montgomery mont morning mother nature ness never object occasion party passion pleasure present racter recollection regret remembrance replied Harold rington rold scene secret seemed sentiments Sicily sigh silent situation smile soon sorrow spirits stranger sweet tears Temora tenderness tion trembling uncon unhappy Villa di Marino voice wish woman young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 24 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise...
Página 70 - I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garnered up my heart ; Where either I must live, or bear no life...
Página 115 - To th; instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 70 - The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in ! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin, — Ay, there, look grim as hell ! Des.
Página 89 - Grongar Hill invites my song, Draw the landscape bright and strong. Grongar ! in whose mossy cells, Sweetly musing Quiet dwells ; Grongar ! in whose silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sat upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head, While strayed my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till contemplation had her fill.
Página 272 - When by my native streams, in life's fair prime, The mournful magic of their mingling chime First waked my wondering childhood into tears! But seeming now, when all those days are o'er, The sounds of joy once heard and heard no more.
Página 52 - I have a silent sorrow here, A grief I'll ne'er impart ; It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, But it consumes my heart.
Página 293 - In life itself she was so still and fair, That death with gentler aspect withered there ; And the cold flowers her colder hand contained, In that last grasp, as tenderly were strained As if she scarcely felt, but feigned a sleep, And made it almost mockery yet to weep. The long dark lashes fringed her lids of snow, And veiled — thought shrinks from all that lurked below.
Página 83 - Whom none has comforted ! where are thy friends, The dear companions of thy joyful days, Whose hearts thy warm prosperity made glad, Whose arms were taught to grow like ivy round thee, And bind thee to their bosoms ? Thus, with thee, Thus let us live, and let us die, they said.