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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... received from nature a handsome , expressive face , and an elegant manly figure . There was an air of grandeur about him which inspired his beholders with respect ; but some events in his life had tinctured his mind with sadness . His ...
... received from nature a handsome , expressive face , and an elegant manly figure . There was an air of grandeur about him which inspired his beholders with respect ; but some events in his life had tinctured his mind with sadness . His ...
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... received lessons in the languages , geography , and history from Sir William , and was at all times the favoured com- panion of his studious hours . In forming the mind and manners of Clarinda , Sir William was assisted by a gentlewoman ...
... received lessons in the languages , geography , and history from Sir William , and was at all times the favoured com- panion of his studious hours . In forming the mind and manners of Clarinda , Sir William was assisted by a gentlewoman ...
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... received from Sir William , when they separated on the preceding night , and to perform a task in which she always experienced a high gratifica tion ; this was , to distribute the birth- day offerings of Sir William's bounty - among ...
... received from Sir William , when they separated on the preceding night , and to perform a task in which she always experienced a high gratifica tion ; this was , to distribute the birth- day offerings of Sir William's bounty - among ...
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... received , as certainly as he did from me . The fiends who had destroyed my husband , fell in upon our little remain- ing property . They produced their claims , which the laws admitted , and unrelent- ingly they robbed us of every ...
... received , as certainly as he did from me . The fiends who had destroyed my husband , fell in upon our little remain- ing property . They produced their claims , which the laws admitted , and unrelent- ingly they robbed us of every ...
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... received the friendless child under the - protection of his family . Laura Montalbert grew up with the children of Mr. O'Byron , and shared with them the affectionate attentions of the parents . But when she began to give proofs of an ...
... received the friendless child under the - protection of his family . Laura Montalbert grew up with the children of Mr. O'Byron , and shared with them the affectionate attentions of the parents . But when she began to give proofs of an ...
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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...