Romance and RealityR. Bentley, 1852 - 495 sider |
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... voice heard amid the dull and engrossing pursuits of utilitarianism , the crushing weight of inferior literature , and the de- structive effects of cold busy - world apathy . Scott , Byron , Moore , Campbell , Coleridge , Southey ...
... voice heard amid the dull and engrossing pursuits of utilitarianism , the crushing weight of inferior literature , and the de- structive effects of cold busy - world apathy . Scott , Byron , Moore , Campbell , Coleridge , Southey ...
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... voices mingling , as if Babel were still building — these soon awakened Emily's attention- -even the fire had less attraction than the window ; and below was a scene , whose only fault is we are so used to it . 99 In the middle of the ...
... voices mingling , as if Babel were still building — these soon awakened Emily's attention- -even the fire had less attraction than the window ; and below was a scene , whose only fault is we are so used to it . 99 In the middle of the ...
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... voice , indulgence of every kind -self among the number : for the rest , if her mind had a feature , it was indolence ; and her cashmere , character , and carriage , were alike irreproachable . Such was the lady with whom Emily had to ...
... voice , indulgence of every kind -self among the number : for the rest , if her mind had a feature , it was indolence ; and her cashmere , character , and carriage , were alike irreproachable . Such was the lady with whom Emily had to ...
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... voice sank to a whisper- " I do own my weakness ; yet what maternal heart but must be gratified by such admiration as was excited by my sweet Laura ? is dangerous to a young head ; but she is so simple , so unpre- tending . " “ Very ...
... voice sank to a whisper- " I do own my weakness ; yet what maternal heart but must be gratified by such admiration as was excited by my sweet Laura ? is dangerous to a young head ; but she is so simple , so unpre- tending . " “ Very ...
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... voice as they have left ; and Edward Lorraine went to bed , when nothing was wanting but an audience , to have made him declaim most eloquently on the excellence of unsophisticated pleasure . The next day he rose early to join in the 22 ...
... voice as they have left ; and Edward Lorraine went to bed , when nothing was wanting but an audience , to have made him declaim most eloquently on the excellence of unsophisticated pleasure . The next day he rose early to join in the 22 ...
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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.