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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... observed it with attention and wonder . " Alas , husband ! " cried the old woman , " what can we do for this baby , who , for sartin , belongs to some great gentlefolks ? -for -for look , here's beautiful robes ! " spreading out 4 THE ...
... observed it with attention and wonder . " Alas , husband ! " cried the old woman , " what can we do for this baby , who , for sartin , belongs to some great gentlefolks ? -for -for look , here's beautiful robes ! " spreading out 4 THE ...
Page 7
... observed , " but the child had been christened before Provi- dence committed her to their care - at least , she hoped she had , for it would cut her to the heart to suppose she was not born of Christian parents ; but as to having her ...
... observed , " but the child had been christened before Provi- dence committed her to their care - at least , she hoped she had , for it would cut her to the heart to suppose she was not born of Christian parents ; but as to having her ...
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... observed Sir William . " They were golden days ! " cried the old man , with a countenance animated by the delightful recollection of a well - spent youth ; " for Alice and I were sweethearts all the twenty years we lived at the Castle ...
... observed Sir William . " They were golden days ! " cried the old man , with a countenance animated by the delightful recollection of a well - spent youth ; " for Alice and I were sweethearts all the twenty years we lived at the Castle ...
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... observation and judgment , re- gardless of the encomiums of the design- ing , or the rancorous whispers of the malevolent . He made himself , by clear and direct means , acquainted with the real merits and situation of the objects of ...
... observation and judgment , re- gardless of the encomiums of the design- ing , or the rancorous whispers of the malevolent . He made himself , by clear and direct means , acquainted with the real merits and situation of the objects of ...
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... observe that old Norman knew well enough what he was about when he took charge of this child , and that the story of the shipwreck was only an invention . Entitled to the name of father , Sir William evinced the tender regard of one ...
... observe that old Norman knew well enough what he was about when he took charge of this child , and that the story of the shipwreck was only an invention . Entitled to the name of father , Sir William evinced the tender regard of one ...
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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...