The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 47, Part 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... Blanche , who was not yet eighteen , had been hitherto confined to the convent , where she had been placed immediately on her father's second mar- riage . The present countess , who had neither suf- ficient ability nor inclination to ...
... Blanche , who was not yet eighteen , had been hitherto confined to the convent , where she had been placed immediately on her father's second mar- riage . The present countess , who had neither suf- ficient ability nor inclination to ...
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... Blanche would emerge from the convent , the shades of the country would for some time veil her beauty from the public eye . On the morning which commenced the journey , the postillions stopped at the convent , by the count's order , to ...
... Blanche would emerge from the convent , the shades of the country would for some time veil her beauty from the public eye . On the morning which commenced the journey , the postillions stopped at the convent , by the count's order , to ...
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... Blanche sat , lost in pleasing reverie , as she watched the clouds floating silently along the blue expanse , now veiling the sun and stretching their shadows along the distant scene , and then disclosing all his brightness . The jour ...
... Blanche sat , lost in pleasing reverie , as she watched the clouds floating silently along the blue expanse , now veiling the sun and stretching their shadows along the distant scene , and then disclosing all his brightness . The jour ...
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... Blanche drew nearer , the Gothic features of this ancient mansion successively appeared - first an em- battled turret rising above the trees -- then the bro- ken arch of an immense gate - way retiring beyond them ; and she almost ...
... Blanche drew nearer , the Gothic features of this ancient mansion successively appeared - first an em- battled turret rising above the trees -- then the bro- ken arch of an immense gate - way retiring beyond them ; and she almost ...
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... Blanche leaned from the coach window , she resigned herself to the sweet and gentle emotions which the hour and the scenery awakened . The sun had now left the earth , and twilight began to darken the mountains ; while the distant ...
... Blanche leaned from the coach window , she resigned herself to the sweet and gentle emotions which the hour and the scenery awakened . The sun had now left the earth , and twilight began to darken the mountains ; while the distant ...
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Page 288 - Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets : More needs she the divine than the physician: — God, God forgive us all! — Look after her; Remove from her the means of all annoyance , And still keep eyes upon her: — so, good night: My mind she has mated, and amaz'd my sight: I think , but dare not speak.
Page 307 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success: that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 215 - Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 330 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 29 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 198 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 100 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides...
Page 148 - But how shall I attempt such arduous string, I who have spent my nights and nightly days In this soul-deadening place, loose-loitering ? Ah!
Page 230 - And oft the craggy cliff he loved to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th...
Page 333 - I useful may it be to have shown, that though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain ; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune...