The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 45F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... friends And dear relations mingle into bliss . THOMSON . On the pleasant banks of the Garonne , in the pro- vince of Gascony , stood in the year 1584 the chateau of Monsieur St. Aubert . From its windows were seen the pastoral ...
... friends And dear relations mingle into bliss . THOMSON . On the pleasant banks of the Garonne , in the pro- vince of Gascony , stood in the year 1584 the chateau of Monsieur St. Aubert . From its windows were seen the pastoral ...
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... friends the Duke de Durefort and the Marquis Ramont , to pass a month or two with me . To St. Aubert's inquiry as to these intended improvements , he replied that he should take down the old east wing of the cha- teau , and raise upon ...
... friends the Duke de Durefort and the Marquis Ramont , to pass a month or two with me . To St. Aubert's inquiry as to these intended improvements , he replied that he should take down the old east wing of the cha- teau , and raise upon ...
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... friends happy . Emily returned , with delight , to the liberty which their presence had restrained - to her books , her walks , and the rational conversation of M. and Ma- dame St. Aubert , who seemed to rejoice no less that they were ...
... friends happy . Emily returned , with delight , to the liberty which their presence had restrained - to her books , her walks , and the rational conversation of M. and Ma- dame St. Aubert , who seemed to rejoice no less that they were ...
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... friends with an expression of pity and of tenderness , as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them , and that seemed to say , it was for their sakes only , for their sufferings , that she regretted life . On the seventh day the ...
... friends with an expression of pity and of tenderness , as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them , and that seemed to say , it was for their sakes only , for their sufferings , that she regretted life . On the seventh day the ...
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... much with St. Aubert and Emily on the prospect of futurity , and other religious topics . The resignation she expressed , with the firm hope of meeting in a future world the friends she left in 26 MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO .
... much with St. Aubert and Emily on the prospect of futurity , and other religious topics . The resignation she expressed , with the firm hope of meeting in a future world the friends she left in 26 MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO .
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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
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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...