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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... manners , and all those graces of conversation and deportment by which he had been so emi- nently distinguished in his happiest days . Old Norman and Alice , emblems of honesty and humble worth , attracted the particular notice of Sir ...
... manners , and all those graces of conversation and deportment by which he had been so emi- nently distinguished in his happiest days . Old Norman and Alice , emblems of honesty and humble worth , attracted the particular notice of Sir ...
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... manners of Clarinda , Sir William was assisted by a gentlewoman , reduced from affluence , who superintended his household . By her , Clarinda was in- structed in most of the ornamental arts of modern education , and in others she was ...
... manners of Clarinda , Sir William was assisted by a gentlewoman , reduced from affluence , who superintended his household . By her , Clarinda was in- structed in most of the ornamental arts of modern education , and in others she was ...
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... manner of their meet- ing on the cliffs their valued friend , de- scribed their mutual surprise , and the transports of the child , by whom he was instantly recognised . These explanations prevented any un- favourable impressions , such ...
... manner of their meet- ing on the cliffs their valued friend , de- scribed their mutual surprise , and the transports of the child , by whom he was instantly recognised . These explanations prevented any un- favourable impressions , such ...
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... manners were so eminently cal- culated to soften the bitterest malevo- lence , to disarm envy , and conciliate affection . Laura observed and felt the marked attentions of Clarinda , which , though highly gratifying , excited some ...
... manners were so eminently cal- culated to soften the bitterest malevo- lence , to disarm envy , and conciliate affection . Laura observed and felt the marked attentions of Clarinda , which , though highly gratifying , excited some ...
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... manner , with a temper sullen and per- verse . The second sister was fair and florid , with a simpering unmeaning coun- tenance , a deformed person , more under- standing than her elder sister , and worse dispositions . The youngest , a ...
... manner , with a temper sullen and per- verse . The second sister was fair and florid , with a simpering unmeaning coun- tenance , a deformed person , more under- standing than her elder sister , and worse dispositions . The youngest , a ...
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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...