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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... peace , the subtle fiend sent by my envious fate , to blight my prospects , and to crush my hopes : yet , not content with these , thou now dost sum up all with black ingratitude , to sting the tortured bosom which gave thee shelter ...
... peace , the subtle fiend sent by my envious fate , to blight my prospects , and to crush my hopes : yet , not content with these , thou now dost sum up all with black ingratitude , to sting the tortured bosom which gave thee shelter ...
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... peace and constitution became severely impaired , did he awake from an infa- tuation , which left him the prey of disease , and the victim of unceasing regret ; while a marriage , contracted at the instigation of his family , to re ...
... peace and constitution became severely impaired , did he awake from an infa- tuation , which left him the prey of disease , and the victim of unceasing regret ; while a marriage , contracted at the instigation of his family , to re ...
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... inspire every beholder ; of extreme youth , health , peace , and innocence , bloomed fresher than the rose upon her cheek ; love and inge- nuousness beamed in her soft dark eye ; ! eye ; a quantity of fine hair shaded one 19 .
... inspire every beholder ; of extreme youth , health , peace , and innocence , bloomed fresher than the rose upon her cheek ; love and inge- nuousness beamed in her soft dark eye ; ! eye ; a quantity of fine hair shaded one 19 .
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... peaceful dwelling of de Cleance became the abode of gloom and discontent ; the note of Eloise was heard no longer ; her music was neglected , her drawings torn and ef- faced , and all her hours past in tracing each step of the path ...
... peaceful dwelling of de Cleance became the abode of gloom and discontent ; the note of Eloise was heard no longer ; her music was neglected , her drawings torn and ef- faced , and all her hours past in tracing each step of the path ...
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... - fidence , or perceive , with sensations of the keenest agony , that her peace was for ever fled ; and that the efforts she made made to appear chearful in his chearful in his presence 26 first scen Moraldi, in musing on his ...
... - fidence , or perceive , with sensations of the keenest agony , that her peace was for ever fled ; and that the efforts she made made to appear chearful in his chearful in his presence 26 first scen Moraldi, in musing on his ...
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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...