 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 546 σελίδες
...consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction. She was led 15 into society, and they tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate her grief, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 542 σελίδες
...consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction. She was led 15 into society, and they tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate her grief, and... | |
 | John J. Reynolds - 1903 - 140 σελίδες
...Irish are proverbially a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions .were paid her by families of wealth and...amusement to dissipate her grief, and wean her from the tragic story of her love. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity, that scathe and... | |
 | Nimrod - 1903 - 268 σελίδες
...mentis gratissimus error."1 But the sore was not yet laid bare. A very elegant writer has observed, "there are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul, that penetrate the vital seat of happiness — and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom ; " and this... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 460 σελίδες
...consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and...grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her loves. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity which scathe and scorch the soul... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 138 σελίδες
...into or toward, and curt unctions ; the practice in England is to reret to run ; brought upon herself. She was led into society, and they tried by all kinds...grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her lover. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity which scathe ' and scorch the soul... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1906 - 472 σελίδες
...occupation and amusement to dissipate her grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her loves. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity which scathe and scorch the soul — which penetrate to the vital seat of happiness — and blast it,... | |
 | 1902 - 438 σελίδες
...consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her, by families of wealth and...grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her loves. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul—that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 586 σελίδες
...consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and...was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity which scathe and scorch the soul — which penetrate to the vital seat of happiness — and blast it,... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 σελίδες
...consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her, by families of wealth and...grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her lover. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul —... | |
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... roof. But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate... 
