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Page 76
... murder us in this lonely desert , for the sake of our money and valuables , and make his escape into Italy , by the short descent which leads from this pass to the Valais ; by which very route , as he had him- self told us , he had left ...
... murder us in this lonely desert , for the sake of our money and valuables , and make his escape into Italy , by the short descent which leads from this pass to the Valais ; by which very route , as he had him- self told us , he had left ...
Page 84
... Grimsel , immediately after the peace . Their guide , a discharged soldier — a ruffian without principle or cha- racter - had formed a plan to rob and murder them , occasion could I , or would I , have acted 84 THE GRIMSEL .
... Grimsel , immediately after the peace . Their guide , a discharged soldier — a ruffian without principle or cha- racter - had formed a plan to rob and murder them , occasion could I , or would I , have acted 84 THE GRIMSEL .
Page 85
... punctilious principles , have said they would sooner have been murdered , than have de- ceived the man ; -but those ladies had not been tried . VOL . II . 8 seemed no egress , --- the inaccessible mountains , the THE GRIMSEL . 85.
... punctilious principles , have said they would sooner have been murdered , than have de- ceived the man ; -but those ladies had not been tried . VOL . II . 8 seemed no egress , --- the inaccessible mountains , the THE GRIMSEL . 85.
Page 89
... murder are wholly unknown --- though there is no country in the world which affords the same fa- cilities for their successful perpetration ; both from the inexhaustible retreats for banditti --- which its forests , its mountains , its ...
... murder are wholly unknown --- though there is no country in the world which affords the same fa- cilities for their successful perpetration ; both from the inexhaustible retreats for banditti --- which its forests , its mountains , its ...
Page 161
... murdered outright . His alarm was dreadful ; for it happened that a vague report had reached his ears , which had floated down to Berne , no one knew how ; of two English ladies travelling alone , being attack- ed on the Grimsel and ...
... murdered outright . His alarm was dreadful ; for it happened that a vague report had reached his ears , which had floated down to Berne , no one knew how ; of two English ladies travelling alone , being attack- ed on the Grimsel and ...
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Alps Altorf asked Baillie BALCARRIS beauty beheld beneath Berne Black Hamilton blood Breadal Breadalbane CAROLINE ST Clair danger dark deep descend door dreadful Engadine English escape exclaimed extraordinary eyes feelings Finsteraarhorn fool Furca gaze glaciers Grimsel Grindelwald happy head hear heard heart Heathcote honour hope HORACE LINDSAY horror horses Hunlocke's instantly Jungfrau knew Lady Hunlocke lake of Bienne Lake of Lucerne Lausanne leagues leave letter Lindsay's live look Lord Montfort M'cMuckleman Mademoiselle Carline marry Meyringen Miss St morning mountain murder never pass passion peasants pistols poison poor precipice racter Realp Righi roar Roaring Valley rocks romantic Roslin Roslin Castle Sajlas scarcely scene seemed side snow soul speak specting storm summit suppose Swiss Switzerland tell thing thou thought tion told torrent tower village voice wandering Wellhorn Wetterhorn wild wish woman young
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Page 185 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 57 - Love Can fortune's strong impediments remove ; Nor is it strange that worth should wed to worth. The pride of genius with the pride of birth.
Page 138 - What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene; But the gay, the open scene, Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow ; And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight.
Page 243 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 193 - Tis good to be merry and wise, 'Tis good to be honest and true, 'Tis good to be off with the old love Before you be on with the new.
Page 103 - And I another, So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance To mend it or be rid on't.
Page 103 - Sad is my fate! said the heart-broken stranger, The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee; But I have no refuge from famine and danger, — A home and a country remain not to me.
Page 197 - What it is to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah, lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each evening repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn ; I have bade my dear Phyllis farewell.
Page 156 - Would throw in shades her yet unrivall'd name, And dim the lustre of her fairest page! And glows the flame of Liberty so strong In this lone speck of earth ! this spot obscure, Shaggy with woods, and crusted o'er with rock, By slaves surrounded, and by slaves oppress'd!