The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 45F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... beauty of the surrounding scene ; and considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence . St. Aubert felt a kind of affection for every part of the fabric , which he remembered in his youth , and would not ...
... beauty of the surrounding scene ; and considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence . St. Aubert felt a kind of affection for every part of the fabric , which he remembered in his youth , and would not ...
Pagina 3
... beauty of the surrounding scene ; and considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence . St. Aubert felt a kind of affection for every part of the fabric , which he remembered in his youth , and would not ...
... beauty of the surrounding scene ; and considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence . St. Aubert felt a kind of affection for every part of the fabric , which he remembered in his youth , and would not ...
Pagina 7
... beauty , and rendered her a very in- teresting object to persons of a congenial disposition . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had penetration enough to see , that this charm was too dangerous ...
... beauty , and rendered her a very in- teresting object to persons of a congenial disposition . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had penetration enough to see , that this charm was too dangerous ...
Pagina 19
... beauty in such a sapless old tree as this ? Good God ! exclaimed St. Aubert ; you surely will not destroy that noble chesnut , which has flourished for centuries the glory of the estate ! it was in its maturity when the present mansion ...
... beauty in such a sapless old tree as this ? Good God ! exclaimed St. Aubert ; you surely will not destroy that noble chesnut , which has flourished for centuries the glory of the estate ! it was in its maturity when the present mansion ...
Pagina 63
... beauty then mingled with the scene . Yet the travellers did not look back without some re- gret to the sublime objects they had quitted ; though the eye , fatigued with the extension of its powers , was glad to repose on the verdure of ...
... beauty then mingled with the scene . Yet the travellers did not look back without some re- gret to the sublime objects they had quitted ; though the eye , fatigued with the extension of its powers , was glad to repose on the verdure of ...
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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...