The Knight of St. John: A Romance, Zväzok 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - 354 strán (strany) |
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admiration affection agitated animated asked Cesario Beatrice Beatrice's beauty bestowed breast bright bright eyes Cahet Cesario Adimari chapel character charm cheek colour Corsica Count Cagliari countenance death elder exclaimed Cesario expression eyes fancied father favour feelings fortune friendship Fronsac galley galliot Genoa Genoese gentle Gianettino Giovanni Cigala Giovanni felt glance glow gratitude grief habits hand happiness heard heart Heaven honour hope human humour inclination instant kindly KNIGHT OF ST less look lover Marchesa Marco Doria ment mind nature Nervi ness never night noble object once Palazzo Rosso passed passion pathy person Pianosa pleasures Prince Doria Prince of Melfi racter Rodolphe San Siro sario sensibility sentiment sigh Signor Adimari Signor Calva Signor Cigala Signora Brignoletti silence smiled solitary sought soul spirit spoke stancy stood tears tender thing thought tion ture turned uncon uttered vanni vessel voice wish young youth
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Strana 18 - ... from one who had hitherto believed himself its undoubted heir. — What they were content to receive at the hands of justice, therefore, was only the power of restoring this estate to the property from which it had been unlawfully dismembered two centuries back. They prayed him to consider {Rein as its purchasers; and having had the estate valued, Giovanni was come to proffer the sum named.
Strana 15 - He turned away as he concluded, and leaned against a window frame ; evidently desirous of thus terminating the interview. Giovanni still advanced, though with an air of respect and dignity. " I should not have intruded on you...
Strana 225 - He knew, too, every inch of coast from the mouth of the Nile to the Pillars of Hercules.
Strana 19 - I would your just grief were less intemperate !" said Giovanni patiently ; "you would then admit that we have right on our side, though grievous has been its enforcement.
Strana 240 - Yes, through that stream so clear, so deep, In beauty ever brightening rises ; The form our soul enamoured prizes ; Each tender charm again repeating. Still, still renewed, though ever fleeting. Wave follows wave. While trancing echoes o'er them sweep, From memory's grave. Then shall we scale the rocks of power. Or colder study's stormy height ; Or weave the flowerets, fair as slight ; Of pleasures vain and unabiding! No : still where time's full stream is gliding Through love's green bower. With...
Strana 13 - Cesario threw himself on a seat; and sunk into deep thought ; for a while his reflections were full of anxiety, and the dismal future ; but they soon changed,.
Strana 15 - ... sealed on his father's hand with filial fondness, when the door of the apartment he really sat in, opened hastily, and the vision vanished. Rising in disorder, he looked with indignant amazement upon the person that entered : it was Giovanni Cigala. " What means this intrusion, sir ?" demanded Cesario. " It means any thing but offence," replied the former, gently, but steadily advancing.
Strana 16 - I come to do you an act of justice ; to make some compensation if possible, for what the law has awarded to my father." . '> " Your father ! — name him not, if you would have me endure your sight a single moment. My father ! where i$ he? — in his grave! and who rifled him of life ? — who tore his dying embrace, his last blessing from his wretched son?
Strana 16 - ... embrace, his last blessing from his wretched son?" The impassioned young man dashed his forehead against his hand in a phrenzy of recollection, and vainly tried to stifle a groan.
Strana 20 - Popularity !" murmured Giovanni, and a tear glistened in his mildly reproachful eye. 'Twas an injurious suspicion, and Cesario had rather uttered than thought it: he now stood gloomily silent ; ashamed of his own intemperance, yet jealous of every feeling which could soften him in favour of a Cigala.