The English Nights' Entertainment: 1st Ser. Contain [sic] A Day in Stowe GardensJ. Gifford, 1826 - 315 páginas |
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... pleasure I experienced in looking upon this lovely creature , kept me motionless , until at length , warmed into a belief of her being a divinity , I lifted the end of her scarf and kissed it fervently . This motion alarmed her , and ...
... pleasure I experienced in looking upon this lovely creature , kept me motionless , until at length , warmed into a belief of her being a divinity , I lifted the end of her scarf and kissed it fervently . This motion alarmed her , and ...
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... act as a restraint upon the conviviality of the meeting ; for in parties of this unbending nature , the true luxury is equality and similarity of tastes and pleasures . Nothing can be a greater damper to a vi INTRODUCTION .
... act as a restraint upon the conviviality of the meeting ; for in parties of this unbending nature , the true luxury is equality and similarity of tastes and pleasures . Nothing can be a greater damper to a vi INTRODUCTION .
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1st Ser. Contain [sic] A Day in Stowe Gardens. pleasures . Nothing can be a greater damper to a genial , generous ... pleasure . Dorilaus , with his fine white head and happy face , sat like an Arcadian elder upon the pedestal of one ...
1st Ser. Contain [sic] A Day in Stowe Gardens. pleasures . Nothing can be a greater damper to a genial , generous ... pleasure . Dorilaus , with his fine white head and happy face , sat like an Arcadian elder upon the pedestal of one ...
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... pleasure increased , the tears drop- ped faster from his lids , or that their current was stopped by every agitating doubt ? At length his efforts were rewarded by the stranger opening her eyes . After the first effort of recollection ...
... pleasure increased , the tears drop- ped faster from his lids , or that their current was stopped by every agitating doubt ? At length his efforts were rewarded by the stranger opening her eyes . After the first effort of recollection ...
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... pleasure to instruct me in the Spanish , Italian , and French languages , and to inspire me with a love for their literature and manners . She often lamented that my fate would probably condemn me to be the wife of some wealthy Moor ...
... pleasure to instruct me in the Spanish , Italian , and French languages , and to inspire me with a love for their literature and manners . She often lamented that my fate would probably condemn me to be the wife of some wealthy Moor ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance Adelaide affection Alvarez Angelina appearance arms arrived assured Auto da Fé baron Beaujeu beauty begged blessed bosom castle charm child church Clarice comfort companion consent daugh daughter dear death deep dungeon delight determined Donald Macpherson Dorabella easy ac endeavoured entremets exclaimed eyes fancy father favour fear feelings felt Florio fortune friar friends gallant gentle gratitude habit hand happiness heart holy honour hope husband imagined indulgence innocent unprotected Julian kind knew lady lonely looked lover Lysander of Lido Mable manner Marco marriage Mary melan mind Miss Prudence Monsieur Narcisse nature ness never night offer Olinda Padua passed passion perceived pleasure poor recollected romantic santry Saracenic seek seemed selfish ship Signor Michelli Sir Carnaby soon spirit stood story suffered Sumana sweet Sylvanus taste tears tender thought tion uncle Velasquez Venice vessel voice wife wish woman wonder young youth Zulema
Passagens conhecidas
Página 68 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 245 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me : In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. Th...
Página 208 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 111 - Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Página 209 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving, delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...
Página 119 - And life to move it selfe upon the water. Strange thing ! how bold and swift the monster was, That neither car'd for...
Página 119 - And is the sea (quoth Coridon) so fearfull ? " " Fearful much more (quoth he) then hart can fear : Thousand wyld beasts with deep mouthes gaping direfull Therin stil wait poore passengers to teare. Who life doth loath, and longs death to behold, Before he die alreadie dead with feare, And yet would live with heart halfe stonie cold, Let him to sea, and he shall see it there.
Página 78 - And he display'd in all parts ! for such a dish now, And at my need, I would betray my father, And, for a roasted conger, all my country.
Página 78 - — or thus ; — " Look how many Muses there doth dwell Upon the sweet banks of the learned well, And just so many strokes the clock hath struck ; " — And so forth. And you must now and then enter into a description.
Página 191 - O the glory Of two united hearts like hers and mine ! Let poring book-men dream of other worlds ; My world, and all of happiness, is here, And I'd not change it for the best to come : A life of pleasure is Elysium.