The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 45F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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Pagina 13
... perceived herself grow faint , and sat down . As she tried to recover herself , the pen- cilled lines on the wainscot met her eye ; she started as if she had seen a stranger ; but , endeavouring to conquer the tremour of her spirits ...
... perceived herself grow faint , and sat down . As she tried to recover herself , the pen- cilled lines on the wainscot met her eye ; she started as if she had seen a stranger ; but , endeavouring to conquer the tremour of her spirits ...
Pagina 15
... perceived the liveries of his brother - in - law , and in the parlour he found Monsieur and Madame Quesnel already entered . They had left Paris some days before , and were on the way to their estate , only ten leagues distant from La ...
... perceived the liveries of his brother - in - law , and in the parlour he found Monsieur and Madame Quesnel already entered . They had left Paris some days before , and were on the way to their estate , only ten leagues distant from La ...
Pagina 16
... perceived , or thought she perceived , that happiness and splendour were not the same ; and she did not hesitate to forgo the last for the attainment of the former . Whether Monsieur Quesnel thought them the same , or not , he would ...
... perceived , or thought she perceived , that happiness and splendour were not the same ; and she did not hesitate to forgo the last for the attainment of the former . Whether Monsieur Quesnel thought them the same , or not , he would ...
Pagina 17
... perceive , what is just . Madame Quesnel , meanwhile , was expressing to Madame St. Aubert her astonishment that she could bear to pass her life in this remote corner of the world , as she called it , and describing , from a wish ...
... perceive , what is just . Madame Quesnel , meanwhile , was expressing to Madame St. Aubert her astonishment that she could bear to pass her life in this remote corner of the world , as she called it , and describing , from a wish ...
Pagina 26
... perceived her death was approach- ing . Do not attempt to deceive me , said she ; I feel that I cannot long survive : I am prepared for the event - I have long , I hope , been preparing for it . Since I have not long to live , do not ...
... perceived her death was approach- ing . Do not attempt to deceive me , said she ; I feel that I cannot long survive : I am prepared for the event - I have long , I hope , been preparing for it . Since I have not long to live , do not ...
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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...