The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale. In Three Volumes..T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1804 - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) |
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... character , at an age when few men have any characters at all . It is possible , that the radical evil of an erroneous education might have had had some influence in fixing his vi- cious propensities ; 15 fate; these will teach you to ...
... character , at an age when few men have any characters at all . It is possible , that the radical evil of an erroneous education might have had had some influence in fixing his vi- cious propensities ; 15 fate; these will teach you to ...
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... character of her lost parent ; but forbore ( though every enraptured look gave testimony to the tenderness of his feelings ) to mention the subject of his love , lest he should alarm and distress her . THAT these respectful and insinuat ...
... character of her lost parent ; but forbore ( though every enraptured look gave testimony to the tenderness of his feelings ) to mention the subject of his love , lest he should alarm and distress her . THAT these respectful and insinuat ...
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... months not only brought her to the keenest sense of her own disgrace , but proved , that he , for whom she had for- feited innocence , character , respecta- bility , was indeed feited 40 he had so long and so fervently pro- ...
... months not only brought her to the keenest sense of her own disgrace , but proved , that he , for whom she had for- feited innocence , character , respecta- bility , was indeed feited 40 he had so long and so fervently pro- ...
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... character he had assumed , and her credulous imagina- tion had believed : yet , while the sad assurance doomed her days to sorrow . and her nights to misery , her keenest pang was in the sense of his crimes , as her earliest prayer ...
... character he had assumed , and her credulous imagina- tion had believed : yet , while the sad assurance doomed her days to sorrow . and her nights to misery , her keenest pang was in the sense of his crimes , as her earliest prayer ...
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... character , which , gifted with under- standing , and endowed with talents , yet descended to a base and igno- minious dependance , and raised on the ' vices or weakness of another an eter- nal trophy to their mutual infamy and disgrace ...
... character , which , gifted with under- standing , and endowed with talents , yet descended to a base and igno- minious dependance , and raised on the ' vices or weakness of another an eter- nal trophy to their mutual infamy and disgrace ...
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Abruzzo agita agony Albenza ance behold Bertoldo bosom breast castle chese child Claudine Cleance Corvino cottage countenance cried crimes curse danger dared death deprived despair door dreadful dungeon dying Eloise Eve of San exclaimed existence eyes fatal fatal beauty fatal secret fate Father Jerome fear feelings garment gazed Gradisca groan guilty Guiseppe hand happiness hastened heart Heaven honour hope horror hour induced infant innocence instantly inwardly Italy look Lord Lorenzo Louis de Volange Marchese di Morano Marquis de Volange marriage ment mind miseries misfortunes Moraldi mother murder Naples ness never night offspring once pangs parent Paulina peace poniard proved quired racter repentant replied revenge round ruin San Pietro secret seek Signiora small pox soon sorrow soul spirit sufferings tears tenderness thee thou thought tion treachery Ubal Ubaldo vengeance victim villain Viola virtuous wife witness woman wound wretched youth Zanotti
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Page 199 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 199 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels...
Page 166 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 166 - Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills.
Page 233 - Syphax, we must work in haste: Oh think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods. Oh ! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death...