The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 45F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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Pagina 7
... endeavoured to bear it , as he meant , with phi- losophy , he had , in truth , no philosophy that could render him calm to such losses . One daughter was now his only surviving child ; and while he watched the unfolding of her infant ...
... endeavoured to bear it , as he meant , with phi- losophy , he had , in truth , no philosophy that could render him calm to such losses . One daughter was now his only surviving child ; and while he watched the unfolding of her infant ...
Pagina 13
... endeavouring to conquer the tremour of her spirits , rose and went to the window To the lines before noticed she now perceived that others were added , in which her name appeared . Though no longer suffered to doubt that they were ...
... endeavouring to conquer the tremour of her spirits , rose and went to the window To the lines before noticed she now perceived that others were added , in which her name appeared . Though no longer suffered to doubt that they were ...
Pagina 25
... endeavoured to reanimate with hopes that her constant assiduities would not be unavailing . The physician , when asked by St. Aubert for his opinion of the disorder , replied that the event of it depended upon circumstances which he ...
... endeavoured to reanimate with hopes that her constant assiduities would not be unavailing . The physician , when asked by St. Aubert for his opinion of the disorder , replied that the event of it depended upon circumstances which he ...
Pagina 29
... endeavoured to teach you , from your earliest youth , the duty of self - command ; I have pointed out to you the great importance of it through life , not only as it preserves us in the various and dan- gerous temptations that call us ...
... endeavoured to teach you , from your earliest youth , the duty of self - command ; I have pointed out to you the great importance of it through life , not only as it preserves us in the various and dan- gerous temptations that call us ...
Pagina 45
... endeavouring to keep up his courage by singing : his music , however , was not of a kind to disperse melancholy ; he sung , in a sort of chant , one of the most dismal ditties his present auditors had ever heard , and St. Aubert at ...
... endeavouring to keep up his courage by singing : his music , however , was not of a kind to disperse melancholy ; he sung , in a sort of chant , one of the most dismal ditties his present auditors had ever heard , and St. Aubert at ...
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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...