Agnes de Mansfeldt: A Historical Tale, Τόμος 1Saunders and Otley, 1836 - 387 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 46
... answered her question . " Our elector reckoned thirty - seven summers last August , according to the calendar , but is at least a dozen less in character and habits , if hearsay belie him not . ” " Thirty - seven only ! and is this what ...
... answered her question . " Our elector reckoned thirty - seven summers last August , according to the calendar , but is at least a dozen less in character and habits , if hearsay belie him not . ” " Thirty - seven only ! and is this what ...
Σελίδα 66
... answer to my summons , and here thou art ! " " Ghebhard , thou camest as quick , and quicker in my time of need - would that I had the might as I have the will to serve thee . " " Thou hast it Nuenar , and I need it all . Sit thee down ...
... answer to my summons , and here thou art ! " " Ghebhard , thou camest as quick , and quicker in my time of need - would that I had the might as I have the will to serve thee . " " Thou hast it Nuenar , and I need it all . Sit thee down ...
Σελίδα 95
... answered Scotus , carelessly , but with a look of so strange a mean- ing as made all near him stare , first at him , and then at each other . But the Italian's look was unexplained , and not commented on at the moment . • De actis et ...
... answered Scotus , carelessly , but with a look of so strange a mean- ing as made all near him stare , first at him , and then at each other . But the Italian's look was unexplained , and not commented on at the moment . • De actis et ...
Σελίδα 111
... answer was given to this direct question . The whole company looked grave again . But the elector was resolved not to let any heavy cloud rest long over his board . He saw into the object of his guest , as clearly as our readers do by ...
... answer was given to this direct question . The whole company looked grave again . But the elector was resolved not to let any heavy cloud rest long over his board . He saw into the object of his guest , as clearly as our readers do by ...
Σελίδα 112
... do not understand What do you mean ? ” " Oh , nothing , " answered Scotus , with that provokingly cool air which blows the temper of an irritable man into absolute flame . 66 Nothing ! what , is it nothing to accuse 112 AGNES DE MANSFELDT .
... do not understand What do you mean ? ” " Oh , nothing , " answered Scotus , with that provokingly cool air which blows the temper of an irritable man into absolute flame . 66 Nothing ! what , is it nothing to accuse 112 AGNES DE MANSFELDT .
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Agnes de Mansfeldt Agnes's arms baron beauty bishop Bonn brother Bruhl burgomaster cause close Coburg Cologne Count Nuenar Count Scotus cried dared doubt Duchess Anne duke elector electoral palace Emma Ernest Ernest of Bavaria exclaimed eyes fate fear feelings felt Freda gaze Ghebhard Truchses golden reigne hand happiness heart Heaven her's Heyen highness highness's Hilpaert honour hope hour Italian Karl Kreutzer knew Kriechlingen lady latter Leckenstein Liegnitz lingen listen look Malvoisie marriage master means ment methinks mind never night noble nought object once Oppenheit palace passed passion person porter postern prince rapier ready replied Rhine rushed scarcely scene secret seemed señor sister smile soon sovereign speak spoke stranger sure Sweinishen tell thee THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN thou art thought tion told tone turn Ulrick uttered valet Von Heyen Walram woman words young
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Σελίδα 199 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Σελίδα 226 - Mr. Bulwer's * Pilgrims of the Rhine* is a work which will delight the fanciful and imaginative, please the refined and philosophical, charm the gay, inform the intellectual, and absorb the feeling."— Literary Gazette. " We cannot help expressing our admiration of the taste and skill with which Mr. Bulwer has arranged his materials."—Athen&um. l* Mr. Bulwer'a splendid * Pilgrims of the Rhine' is a work of rich fancy, and full of those dreams which genius alone cau invest with reality."—Time*.
Σελίδα 109 - And oh, may they learn to know what it is makes happiness ! that it does not consist, as too many fancy, in the imagination of .some good too distant to be reached — too large to be encircled in our hold, but that it is really formed of little things, flowers and sweets, that we never stay to notice in the...
Σελίδα 135 - The sense of enjoyment is proportioned to the vivacity of the mind, and the thousand freshspringing sources of pleasure open to the more susceptible among human beings, far outbalance the power of that morbid tone of suffering which weighs down the dull.