Continental Adventures: A Novel, Τόμος 1Hurst, Robinson, 1826 - 400 σελίδες |
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... Clair vas la de personne du monde la plus spirituelle . ” “ Yes , and mamma used always to tell me , for fear he should make me vain- The Count only means , by " spirituelle , " that you have great spirits , child . Don't fancy he means ...
... Clair vas la de personne du monde la plus spirituelle . ” “ Yes , and mamma used always to tell me , for fear he should make me vain- The Count only means , by " spirituelle , " that you have great spirits , child . Don't fancy he means ...
Σελίδα 10
... Clair . Georgiana and Caroline St. Clair , were the daughters of Lady St. Clair , a fashionable fine- looking widow of five and forty , and a woman of the world . She had another daughter , Fanny , aged fifteen , at an excellent school ...
... Clair . Georgiana and Caroline St. Clair , were the daughters of Lady St. Clair , a fashionable fine- looking widow of five and forty , and a woman of the world . She had another daughter , Fanny , aged fifteen , at an excellent school ...
Σελίδα 11
... Clair , who was old and ugly though sensible and good tempered ; only two years after her marriage , her lover , by the death of his elder brother , came into possession of a large fortune , and not long afterwards , by the death of a ...
... Clair , who was old and ugly though sensible and good tempered ; only two years after her marriage , her lover , by the death of his elder brother , came into possession of a large fortune , and not long afterwards , by the death of a ...
Σελίδα 12
... Clair possessed all the excellencies and all the defects that are usually attendant upon a generous and ardent character . No one knew their faults better than herself - no human being was ever more free from vanity and self- ishness ...
... Clair possessed all the excellencies and all the defects that are usually attendant upon a generous and ardent character . No one knew their faults better than herself - no human being was ever more free from vanity and self- ishness ...
Σελίδα 16
... Clair was married to Mr. Balcarris , with all that privacy and absence of parade which characterize modern marriages . — After the ceremony , the happy pair were , as usual , whirled off as rapidly as a carriage and four could convey ...
... Clair was married to Mr. Balcarris , with all that privacy and absence of parade which characterize modern marriages . — After the ceremony , the happy pair were , as usual , whirled off as rapidly as a carriage and four could convey ...
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adventure Alps amusing BALCARRIS beautiful beheld beneath Berne Biddy's breakfast CAROLINE ST carriage castle certainly Chamouni char Clair cold Colonel Cleveland conversation cottage dear deep delightful dinner dirty Eiger England English exclaimed eyes fancy feel France French Fribourg friends gentlemen Georgiana glacier gout Grindelwald guides heard heart Heathcote heaven height hour Interlachen Jungfrau Lady Hunlocke lake laughing Lausanne Lindsay live look Lord Byron Lord Lumber Lord Lumbercourt Mademoiselle Delemont marry Martigny Mer de Glace Miss Biddy Miss St Mont Blanc morning mountain mule never night party passed peasants Petrarch picturesque Plait precipice rings road rock romantic scarcely scene seemed Servoz side sight singing snow soul steep stood sublime summit Swiss Switzerland talk thing towering town travellers trees tremendous vale valley Vaucluse walked whole wild woman women woods young
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Σελίδα 3 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Σελίδα 178 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Σελίδα 150 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king.
Σελίδα 178 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy impart.
Σελίδα 158 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Σελίδα 141 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O : Her 'prentice han' she try'd on man, An
Σελίδα 346 - The natural music of the mountain reed — For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable — pipes in the liberal air, Mixed with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes.
Σελίδα 346 - The mists boil up around the glaciers ; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.
Σελίδα 214 - THE King of France, with twenty thousand men, Went up the hill, and then came down again ; The King of Spain, with twenty thousand more, Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
Σελίδα x - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuff's out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.