Agnes de Mansfeldt: A Historical Tale, Τόμος 1Saunders and Otley, 1836 - 387 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... scene and illegitimate actors in it , for the purposes of the many princes , potentates , and pretenders whose interests were in- volved in the great questions to be de- bated . Considerable magnificence was dis- played by this ...
... scene and illegitimate actors in it , for the purposes of the many princes , potentates , and pretenders whose interests were in- volved in the great questions to be de- bated . Considerable magnificence was dis- played by this ...
Σελίδα vi
... scene of such splendour , such de- bauchery , and such intrigue . And the long - past glories of Roman , Franc , and Hun , of emperors , kings , and conquer- ors were eclipsed and for awhile forgot- ten , in the extravagance of the ...
... scene of such splendour , such de- bauchery , and such intrigue . And the long - past glories of Roman , Franc , and Hun , of emperors , kings , and conquer- ors were eclipsed and for awhile forgot- ten , in the extravagance of the ...
Σελίδα vii
... scene of life , and that she owed to its records her intro- duction to the broad pages of history . That the serious purpose of the con- gress might commence with suitable solemnity , and in the hope of frustrating the many sinister ...
... scene of life , and that she owed to its records her intro- duction to the broad pages of history . That the serious purpose of the con- gress might commence with suitable solemnity , and in the hope of frustrating the many sinister ...
Σελίδα 2
... scene . Woman , in her most attractive forms , moved along the promenades , leaned from the windows , or stood on platforms , to gaze un- obstructed at the spectacle below . Of the many groups so placed , which caught the observation of ...
... scene . Woman , in her most attractive forms , moved along the promenades , leaned from the windows , or stood on platforms , to gaze un- obstructed at the spectacle below . Of the many groups so placed , which caught the observation of ...
Σελίδα 28
... scene with burning curiosity , to know by name the various individuals by which it was composed . Our group was not wanting in this natural feeling of the occasion , and , as satirists say , this natural failing of the sex . It needs ...
... scene with burning curiosity , to know by name the various individuals by which it was composed . Our group was not wanting in this natural feeling of the occasion , and , as satirists say , this natural failing of the sex . It needs ...
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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.