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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... baron his father , to claim the reward of a steady affection , a claim which the count admitted , and which Blanche did not reject . While these visitors were at the chateau , it be- came a scene of gaiety and splendour . The pavilion ...
... baron his father , to claim the reward of a steady affection , a claim which the count admitted , and which Blanche did not reject . While these visitors were at the chateau , it be- came a scene of gaiety and splendour . The pavilion ...
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... baron was of opinion that the first was probable , and the last was possible ; and he endeavoured to justify this opinion by re- spectable authorities , both ancient and modern , which he quoted . The count , however , was deci- dedly ...
... baron was of opinion that the first was probable , and the last was possible ; and he endeavoured to justify this opinion by re- spectable authorities , both ancient and modern , which he quoted . The count , however , was deci- dedly ...
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... baron in point of argument , he had conside- rably fewer adherents ; for that love , so natural to the human mind , of whatever is able to distend its faculties with wonder and astonishment , attached the majority of the company to the ...
... baron in point of argument , he had conside- rably fewer adherents ; for that love , so natural to the human mind , of whatever is able to distend its faculties with wonder and astonishment , attached the majority of the company to the ...
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... baron , famous for his magnificence and courtly hos- pitalities . His castle was graced with ladies of exqui- site beauty , and thronged with illustrious knights : for the honours he paid to feats of chivalry invited the brave of ...
... baron , famous for his magnificence and courtly hos- pitalities . His castle was graced with ladies of exqui- site beauty , and thronged with illustrious knights : for the honours he paid to feats of chivalry invited the brave of ...
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... baron the following adventure is related , One night , having retired late from the banquet to his chamber , and dismissed his attendants , he was surprised by the appearance of a stranger of a noble air , but of a sorrowful and ...
... baron the following adventure is related , One night , having retired late from the banquet to his chamber , and dismissed his attendants , he was surprised by the appearance of a stranger of a noble air , but of a sorrowful and ...
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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...