Agnes de Mansfeldt: A Historical Tale, Τόμος 1Saunders and Otley, 1836 - 387 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα ii
... character as to follow the example it then struggled against . It is certainly striking and singular that the modern King of Holland should stand precisely in the situation which the King of Spain occupied in the olden time , retarding ...
... character as to follow the example it then struggled against . It is certainly striking and singular that the modern King of Holland should stand precisely in the situation which the King of Spain occupied in the olden time , retarding ...
Σελίδα 28
... , as satirists say , this natural failing of the sex . It needs not be told , that it was modified in indi- vidual cases according to the characters of the four bright and youthful beings who adorned the balcony . 28 AGNES DE MANSFELDT .
... , as satirists say , this natural failing of the sex . It needs not be told , that it was modified in indi- vidual cases according to the characters of the four bright and youthful beings who adorned the balcony . 28 AGNES DE MANSFELDT .
Σελίδα 46
... character and habits , if hearsay belie him not . ” " Thirty - seven only ! and is this what Emma calls so old a man ? I should have thought him older , " observed Duchess Anne . " You did not mark him closely , " said Agnes ; " he ...
... character and habits , if hearsay belie him not . ” " Thirty - seven only ! and is this what Emma calls so old a man ? I should have thought him older , " observed Duchess Anne . " You did not mark him closely , " said Agnes ; " he ...
Σελίδα 47
... character of the archbishop . " He “ Oh , the latter certainly , " said Freda , in reply to Ulrick's question , whether she thought the subject of their remark had more the bear- ing of a pious prelate or a proud prince ? wore his mitre ...
... character of the archbishop . " He “ Oh , the latter certainly , " said Freda , in reply to Ulrick's question , whether she thought the subject of their remark had more the bear- ing of a pious prelate or a proud prince ? wore his mitre ...
Σελίδα 50
... character seems to have filled your minds altogether . " " Jealousy , jealousy ! " exclaimed Emma , with her usual laugh of most genuine and musi- cal enjoyment . " Cousin Ulrick already jea- lous , and of the old archbishop ! Nay , nay ...
... character seems to have filled your minds altogether . " " Jealousy , jealousy ! " exclaimed Emma , with her usual laugh of most genuine and musi- cal enjoyment . " Cousin Ulrick already jea- lous , and of the old archbishop ! Nay , nay ...
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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.