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 14
... looked up to with grateful affection , was the most enviable being he had ever known . The tender attachment so evident in the old couple towards the child they had preserved , forcibly struck Sir William on the day when , soon after ...
... looked up to with grateful affection , was the most enviable being he had ever known . The tender attachment so evident in the old couple towards the child they had preserved , forcibly struck Sir William on the day when , soon after ...
Page 33
... looked like a fair divinity ; and numerous were the adorations directed : to her , when the guests appeared : many who had disregarded the old fisherman's tale of the shipwrecked infant , beholding with delight and admiration the ...
... looked like a fair divinity ; and numerous were the adorations directed : to her , when the guests appeared : many who had disregarded the old fisherman's tale of the shipwrecked infant , beholding with delight and admiration the ...
Page 49
... can feel or imagine . How blessed are the merciful even in this life ! How great the privilege of being empowered to shield a worthy object VOL . 1 . D from from threatening evil , of being looked up to as THE CAVERN . 49.
... can feel or imagine . How blessed are the merciful even in this life ! How great the privilege of being empowered to shield a worthy object VOL . 1 . D from from threatening evil , of being looked up to as THE CAVERN . 49.
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mrs. Burke. from threatening evil , of being looked up to as Heaven's messenger of pity and con- solation , and of reading the overflowing emotions of the heart so relieved , in the expressive eye , the ingenuous counte- nance , and all ...
mrs. Burke. from threatening evil , of being looked up to as Heaven's messenger of pity and con- solation , and of reading the overflowing emotions of the heart so relieved , in the expressive eye , the ingenuous counte- nance , and all ...
Page 82
... looked into the garden , and dis- tinguished Mrs. O'Byron with her son , walking hastily through a shaded alley at some distance . The next moment Captain Athol entered the room , with wild distraction in his air and looks . " Where is ...
... looked into the garden , and dis- tinguished Mrs. O'Byron with her son , walking hastily through a shaded alley at some distance . The next moment Captain Athol entered the room , with wild distraction in his air and looks . " Where is ...
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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...