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... strange name ) , is a most wonderful and admirable creature , with finer natural endowments of mind and heart , than any being she ever knew . ' Even the old Doctor says , and he is not in love with her , that ' Mademoiselle Carline is ...
... strange name ) , is a most wonderful and admirable creature , with finer natural endowments of mind and heart , than any being she ever knew . ' Even the old Doctor says , and he is not in love with her , that ' Mademoiselle Carline is ...
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... strange that worth should wed to worth , The pride of genius , with the pride of birth . Now congratulate me upon my happiness , dear Lindsay , and believe me , I wish from my soul that the obstacles to your union were effec- tually ...
... strange that worth should wed to worth , The pride of genius , with the pride of birth . Now congratulate me upon my happiness , dear Lindsay , and believe me , I wish from my soul that the obstacles to your union were effec- tually ...
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... strange jumble , which he repeated over and over again . The lines are clearly English ; but the neighbouring Scottish pea- santry , among whom this prophecy is still cur- rent , accounted for that by observing , that the Carle , being ...
... strange jumble , which he repeated over and over again . The lines are clearly English ; but the neighbouring Scottish pea- santry , among whom this prophecy is still cur- rent , accounted for that by observing , that the Carle , being ...
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... strange portentous sullen mur- murs at last gradually melted away . It was like the voices of a thousand mountain spirits calling , to each other . I never heard sounds so un- earthly as those of this wonderful echo of the Alps . We ...
... strange portentous sullen mur- murs at last gradually melted away . It was like the voices of a thousand mountain spirits calling , to each other . I never heard sounds so un- earthly as those of this wonderful echo of the Alps . We ...
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... strange mood , when she carved out you " LETTER XXVII . CAROLINE ST . CLAIR TO MRS . BALCARRIS . WE were sitting over our tea , yesterday even- ing , at the Grimsel , by the side of a blazing wood fire , discussing our adventures and ...
... strange mood , when she carved out you " LETTER XXVII . CAROLINE ST . CLAIR TO MRS . BALCARRIS . WE were sitting over our tea , yesterday even- ing , at the Grimsel , by the side of a blazing wood fire , discussing our adventures 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!