Romance and RealityR. Bentley, 1852 - 495 sider |
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Side vii
... seemed to be a labour to her . Her invention and powers were equal to any de- mand ; and what to others must have been a heavy burthen , was to her , as it were , a plaything . But let it not therefore be supposed that what appeared to ...
... seemed to be a labour to her . Her invention and powers were equal to any de- mand ; and what to others must have been a heavy burthen , was to her , as it were , a plaything . But let it not therefore be supposed that what appeared to ...
Side ix
... seemed to have forgotten any thing , even the slightest passages in books or the commonest incidents of the day . To conclude with family relations , we may mention that an aunt in Gloucestershire , and Dr. Landon the Dean of Worcester ...
... seemed to have forgotten any thing , even the slightest passages in books or the commonest incidents of the day . To conclude with family relations , we may mention that an aunt in Gloucestershire , and Dr. Landon the Dean of Worcester ...
Side xvi
... seemed to be innate and peculiar to herself , and had a strange effect upon her mind ; but objects of interest never impressed her in the same way as they did the generality of specta- tors . Her first view of St. Paul's Cathedral , for ...
... seemed to be innate and peculiar to herself , and had a strange effect upon her mind ; but objects of interest never impressed her in the same way as they did the generality of specta- tors . Her first view of St. Paul's Cathedral , for ...
Side 21
... seemed to be the melting of the light which was now breaking through its cloudy barrier ; already the moon , like the little bark beneath , was visible amid surrounding darkness , and at last illuminated , encouragingly , the deck and ...
... seemed to be the melting of the light which was now breaking through its cloudy barrier ; already the moon , like the little bark beneath , was visible amid surrounding darkness , and at last illuminated , encouragingly , the deck and ...
Side 27
... seemed to trust to fate about finding either hostess , or partner for her protégée , who at last began to think the mere spectator of pleasure ought to be a philosopher . We have heard of the solitude of the wide ocean , of the sandy ...
... seemed to trust to fate about finding either hostess , or partner for her protégée , who at last began to think the mere spectator of pleasure ought to be a philosopher . We have heard of the solitude of the wide ocean , of the sandy ...
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Adelaide Algernon amusement asked Beatrice Beatrice's beautiful bright called Carbonari carriage child colour companion crimson dark daughter dear Delawarr delight dinner Don Henriquez dress Edward Lorraine Emily Emily's England English enjoyment excited exclaimed exquisite eyes face fairy fancy Fanny Kemble father favourite fear feeling Fitzroy Square flowers gave gentleman girl grace hand happy heard heart Higgs hope imagination indolent Lady Alicia Lady Mandeville Lady Mandeville's laugh leave light look Lord Byron Lord Etheringhame Lord Mandeville Lorraine's lover Lucullus luxuriant marriage married mind Miss Arundel Morland morning mother Naples nature never night once passed passion pleasant pleasure poet poetry pretty quadrille replied ringlets romance rose round seat seemed Sillery smile soon sorrow Spenser spirit step sweet talk taste thing thought took Trevyllian truth turned uncon vanity voice window woman young youth Zoridos
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Side 274 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration...
Side 239 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Side 276 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Side 264 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Side 486 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Side 217 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Side 237 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green...
Side 61 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the banner-cry of hell!
Side 161 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Side 307 - Poor wretch ! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face, and sun-burn'd hair, She had not known her child.