The recess; or, A tale of other times, by the author of The chapter of accidents, Zväzok 21821 |
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Strana 5
... Matilda , I fear to follow ; -ah no ! the best blood burning in this bosom should joyfully em- balm you ; but the thoughts of all which may precede that moment , almost urges me to dash my distracted brain against the stones on which I ...
... Matilda , I fear to follow ; -ah no ! the best blood burning in this bosom should joyfully em- balm you ; but the thoughts of all which may precede that moment , almost urges me to dash my distracted brain against the stones on which I ...
Strana 13
Sophia Lee. convey me into the chamber . " Approach , my dear Matilda , " cried my lord , " never more shall this wretch appal thee . Eter- nal justice is satisfied with one blow , nor need I turn assassin even to him . Happy at the same ...
Sophia Lee. convey me into the chamber . " Approach , my dear Matilda , " cried my lord , " never more shall this wretch appal thee . Eter- nal justice is satisfied with one blow , nor need I turn assassin even to him . Happy at the same ...
Strana 17
... Matilda , " added she , we must part with him for a little time ; but you will rejoin him for life . By the ordination of Providence , as I could almost suppose , the son of my nurse is now in the house - a young man over whom that ...
... Matilda , " added she , we must part with him for a little time ; but you will rejoin him for life . By the ordination of Providence , as I could almost suppose , the son of my nurse is now in the house - a young man over whom that ...
Strana 18
... Matilda , would point out - the impossi- bility of long concealing the share I have had in your fate ; since how else can your miraculous appearance here , or the terri- ble death of my midnight visitor , be ac- counted for ? But what ...
... Matilda , would point out - the impossi- bility of long concealing the share I have had in your fate ; since how else can your miraculous appearance here , or the terri- ble death of my midnight visitor , be ac- counted for ? But what ...
Strana 21
... Matilda . " Lord Leicester promised ; and conduct- ing him softly through the house , we reached the door leading to the garden . All the horrors of the past were short of what I felt at that moment . After the dangers I had shared and ...
... Matilda . " Lord Leicester promised ; and conduct- ing him softly through the house , we reached the door leading to the garden . All the horrors of the past were short of what I felt at that moment . After the dangers I had shared and ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
Abbey affection alike Anana annihilated arms astonishment bosom charm coffin of lord conceal conduct court cried danger dared daugh daughter dear death desperate dreadful Elizabeth Ellinor escaped eyes fair lady fancy fatal fate favour favourite fear fixed fortune gave grief groaned hand happiness heart Heaven hope horrors indulgence interval Kenilworth Castle knew lady Mortimer lady Pembroke lamented learnt lence lord Arlington lord Burleigh lord Essex lord Leices lord Leicester lord Leicester's Lord Pembroke lover marriage Matilda ment mind misfortune Miss Cecil Miss Walsingham mother nature never noble object once passion perceived perhaps pleasure queen of Scots reason recollected resolved Rouen safety seemed sense servants shewed sighed silence sir Francis Walsingham sir Philip Sydney sister slaves soon soul suffer sunk sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion venture villain voice wholly wild wish wretch
Populárne pasáže
Strana 133 - And, father Cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven; If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Strana 164 - ... this holy tranquillity deep ! Not a charm from thy brow the Destroyer hath driven ; 51 The mournful privilege to die was desired by Moses the meekest, and by Job the most patient of men. Listen to the Holy Psalmist. " 0 that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Strana 54 - Perhaps even at the moment she laid that beauteous head, so many hearts were born to worship, on the block, every agony of death was doubled, by the knowledge her daughter brought her there. — Why did I not perish in the Recess by lightning? Why did not the ocean entomb me? Why, why, oh God, was I permitted to survive my innocence?
Strana 232 - This climax of grief and misfortune was too mighty for my reason—I had passed from fear to fear, from sorrow to sorrow, in such rapid succession, that there were only intervals enough of time to render each more poignant. In one short month to behold myself deceived, defamed, and...
Strana 232 - Severed at once from every tie both of nature and of choice, dead while yet breathing, the deep melancholy which had seized upon my brain soon tinctured my whole mass of blood — my intellects strangely blackened and confused, frequently realized scenes and objects that never existed, annihilating many which daily passed before my eyes.