The recess; or, A tale of other times, by the author of The chapter of accidents, Zväzok 21821 |
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Strana 1
... soul instantly susceptible ! - What dreadful images swam before those eyes I hardly durst open ! Fearfully at length I cast them around - I saw I had been conveyed into the great room of our Recess , sacred once to piety and innocence ...
... soul instantly susceptible ! - What dreadful images swam before those eyes I hardly durst open ! Fearfully at length I cast them around - I saw I had been conveyed into the great room of our Recess , sacred once to piety and innocence ...
Strana 2
... soul in si- lence , and resumed the majestic air which once could awe even this villain to subor- dination . I every where perceived a va- riety of instruments , nameless to me , which I considered as the means of torture and of death ...
... soul in si- lence , and resumed the majestic air which once could awe even this villain to subor- dination . I every where perceived a va- riety of instruments , nameless to me , which I considered as the means of torture and of death ...
Strana 4
... whether the scene which yet swims before my sight was real or a vi- sion ? " " Gracious Heaven ! " returned he , in a voice yet more piercing , " you breathe again , my soul's best treasure ! the long , 4 THE RECESS .
... whether the scene which yet swims before my sight was real or a vi- sion ? " " Gracious Heaven ! " returned he , in a voice yet more piercing , " you breathe again , my soul's best treasure ! the long , 4 THE RECESS .
Strana 5
Sophia Lee. again , my soul's best treasure ! the long , long fainting , caused by the threats of that execrable monster , and which held during your removal into this dungeon , gave me hopes that you had finally escaped a fate too ...
Sophia Lee. again , my soul's best treasure ! the long , long fainting , caused by the threats of that execrable monster , and which held during your removal into this dungeon , gave me hopes that you had finally escaped a fate too ...
Strana 6
... soul to all humanity . How - how could it ever escape my memo- ry , that he was acquainted with the secret of the Recess ? how , under such uncertain- ty , durst I ever venture within it ? but short - sighted man , solely employed in ...
... soul to all humanity . How - how could it ever escape my memo- ry , that he was acquainted with the secret of the Recess ? how , under such uncertain- ty , durst I ever venture within it ? but short - sighted man , solely employed in ...
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.