The recess; or, A tale of other times, by the author of The chapter of accidents, Zväzok 21821 |
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Strana 35
... indulgent Heaven ? Ah , no , my heart was juster , and welcomed her as one born to divide it with lord Leicester . Solely intent on the prosperous flight of both , I almost forgot the servant's planted in the Recess , and the monsters ...
... indulgent Heaven ? Ah , no , my heart was juster , and welcomed her as one born to divide it with lord Leicester . Solely intent on the prosperous flight of both , I almost forgot the servant's planted in the Recess , and the monsters ...
Strana 48
... indulged , would fill up that void in his life the promise had caused . What then should I suffer to see such a disappointment added to the sacri- fices and degradations I had already entail- ed upon him ! It was at this crisis all the ...
... indulged , would fill up that void in his life the promise had caused . What then should I suffer to see such a disappointment added to the sacri- fices and degradations I had already entail- ed upon him ! It was at this crisis all the ...
Strana 65
... indulgence and anxious consideration , every hour endeared him more to me , and I gladly , on reflection , compounded with fortune for all her other severities , since the first object of my heart was still unaltered . Averse to being ...
... indulgence and anxious consideration , every hour endeared him more to me , and I gladly , on reflection , compounded with fortune for all her other severities , since the first object of my heart was still unaltered . Averse to being ...
Strana 66
... indulged myself with an examination ; her person was full - sized , tall , and graceful , like all the family of Howard ; her fea- tures visibly marked both by age and de- cayed beauty ; her dress simple , being , like my own , of ...
... indulged myself with an examination ; her person was full - sized , tall , and graceful , like all the family of Howard ; her fea- tures visibly marked both by age and de- cayed beauty ; her dress simple , being , like my own , of ...
Strana 68
... indulged a drowsiness which I could not immediately partake . New objects had awakened my fancy , and invaded my rest ; images more pleasing than had blest me since the moment I quitted Kenilworth Castle , now enlivened my soul .- " Yes ...
... indulged a drowsiness which I could not immediately partake . New objects had awakened my fancy , and invaded my rest ; images more pleasing than had blest me since the moment I quitted Kenilworth Castle , now enlivened my soul .- " Yes ...
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.