The secret of the cavern, Volume 1Printed at the Minerva-Press, for Lane, Newman, and Company Leadenhall-Street, 1805 - 244 pages |
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Page 37
... interesting ; fine sense , sweetness of temper , and a feeling heart were the qualities impressed upon it in striking characters . Her figure was delicately formed , with the airy lightness of a Sylph , and the attitudes of a Grace ...
... interesting ; fine sense , sweetness of temper , and a feeling heart were the qualities impressed upon it in striking characters . Her figure was delicately formed , with the airy lightness of a Sylph , and the attitudes of a Grace ...
Page 57
... interesting Mrs. Lenarvon , who , although continu- ing to derive her chief means of support from Sir William's bounteous band , had never seen her benefactor , who studiously avoided an interview with her , lest it should too painfully ...
... interesting Mrs. Lenarvon , who , although continu- ing to derive her chief means of support from Sir William's bounteous band , had never seen her benefactor , who studiously avoided an interview with her , lest it should too painfully ...
Page 107
... interesting stranger whom she had seen , was little less distressing than it was to Mrs. Millbrook ; for his fine per- son , his ' elegant manners , and the cha- racter she heard of him from Mrs. Lenar- von , had marked him in her mind ...
... interesting stranger whom she had seen , was little less distressing than it was to Mrs. Millbrook ; for his fine per- son , his ' elegant manners , and the cha- racter she heard of him from Mrs. Lenar- von , had marked him in her mind ...
Page 109
... interesting situation fixed my wandering heart . She was the only child of a noble Neapolitan , who was banished from his native country , and deprived of his estates and honours by one of those conspiracies of party , by which men of ...
... interesting situation fixed my wandering heart . She was the only child of a noble Neapolitan , who was banished from his native country , and deprived of his estates and honours by one of those conspiracies of party , by which men of ...
Page 135
... interesting appearance and deport- ment of the mother , and the fine person and delightful manners of the son ; and when night came , she retired to rest , her mind full of these pleasing images . Again she climbed the rocks , supported ...
... interesting appearance and deport- ment of the mother , and the fine person and delightful manners of the son ; and when night came , she retired to rest , her mind full of these pleasing images . Again she climbed the rocks , supported ...
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Page 48 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 1 - Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her Dashed all to pieces. Oh, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere It should the good ship so have swallowed and The fraughting souls within her.
Page 22 - ... allowed still to amuse as a picture, but not to triumph as a beauty. ' When Adam is introduced by Milton, describing Eve in Paradise, and relating to the angel the impressions he felt upon seeing her at her first creation, he does not represent her like a Grecian Venus, by her shape or features, but by the lustre of her mind which shone in them, and gave them their power of charming : " Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, In all her gestures dignity and love...
Page 143 - On earth thou stand'st, thy thoughts ascend to heaven. Anna. Would that I were, e'en as thou say'st, a seer, To have my doubts by heavenly vision clear'd I Glen.
Page 202 - And put it to the foil: but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best!
Page 167 - With grief the sad mourner dies ! Earth- here incloses the loveliest pair on the hill. The grass grows between the stones of the tomb ; I often sit in the mournful shade. The wind sighs through the grass; their memory rushes on my mind. Undisturbed you now sleep together; in the tomb of the mountain you rest alone ! And soft be their rest...