The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 45F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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Pagina 11
... Emily attended him with unremitting care ; but his recovery was very slow , and , as he advanced towards health , Ma- dame seemed to decline . The first scene he visited , after he was well enough to take the air , was his favourite ...
... Emily attended him with unremitting care ; but his recovery was very slow , and , as he advanced towards health , Ma- dame seemed to decline . The first scene he visited , after he was well enough to take the air , was his favourite ...
Pagina 14
... Emily played and sung several of their favourite airs , with the delicacy of expression in which she so much excelled . Music and conversation detained them in this en- chanting spot till the sun's last light slept upon the plains ...
... Emily played and sung several of their favourite airs , with the delicacy of expression in which she so much excelled . Music and conversation detained them in this en- chanting spot till the sun's last light slept upon the plains ...
Pagina 33
... Emily felt tears swell in her eyes , and then re- sentment checked them . St. Aubert , calm and de- liberate , preserved his dignity without assuming im- portance , and Quesnel was depressed by his presence without exactly knowing ...
... Emily felt tears swell in her eyes , and then re- sentment checked them . St. Aubert , calm and de- liberate , preserved his dignity without assuming im- portance , and Quesnel was depressed by his presence without exactly knowing ...
Pagina 34
... Emily's fears made her now fancy that her father looked worse than he really did . : Emily would have been amused by the new cha- racters she saw , and the varied conversation that passed during dinner , which was served in a style of ...
... Emily's fears made her now fancy that her father looked worse than he really did . : Emily would have been amused by the new cha- racters she saw , and the varied conversation that passed during dinner , which was served in a style of ...
Pagina 35
... Emily for his heart to turn to . He stood lost amid the scenes of years which fancy called up , till the succession closed with the picture of his dying wife ; and he started away , to forget it , if possible , at the social board . St ...
... Emily for his heart to turn to . He stood lost amid the scenes of years which fancy called up , till the succession closed with the picture of his dying wife ; and he started away , to forget it , if possible , at the social board . St ...
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affected Alps anxious Apennines appeared aunt awakened beauty carriage Cavigni chateau circumstances cliffs conversation cottage Count Morano countenance daugh dear delight distance Emily's emotion endeavoured eyes fancy father fear felt Garonne Gascony gleam grief Guienne happiness heard heart hope hour indulged knew La Voisin landscape Languedoc late leave length light listened longer looked louis-d'ors lute Ma'amselle Madame Cheron Madame Clairval Madame Montoni Madame St Mark's Place melancholy ment Michael mind moon-light mountains never niece night observed passed paused pensive perceived person portico Pyrenees Quesnel racter recollection remembered replied retired returned road Rousillon scarcely scene seemed shade sigh Signor silent smile snowy points softened solemn sometimes soon soothed sorrow sound spirits spoke stranger suffer sunk sweet taste tears tenderness Theresa thought Thoulouse tion travellers trembling Turin Valan Valancourt Vallée Venice voice Voisin walked wandered waves weep wish woods
Populaire passages
Pagina 75 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace: You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her bright'ning face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve: Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great Children leave: Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Pagina 37 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Pagina 141 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Pagina 198 - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Pagina 255 - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Pagina 37 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven...
Pagina 101 - Let those deplore their doom Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn : But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, .Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.' Shall Spring to these sad scenes no more return ? Is yonder wave the sun's eternal bed * Soon shall the orient with new lustre burn, And Spring shall soon her vital influence shed, Again attune the grove, again adorn the mead.
Pagina 3 - ... of Monsieur and Madame St. Aubert, made her an early proficient. The windows of this room .were particularly pleasant ; they descended to the floor, and, opening upon the little lawn that surrounded the house, the eye was led between groves of almond-, palm-trees, flowering-ash, and myrtle, to the distant landscape, where the Garonne wandered.
Pagina 96 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...