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... Edith , a very charming , simple , unaffected girl of seventeen , with a very peculiar education . Karl Rosenfelt intended her to be his successor . He certainly hoped that she would marry in due time , but he wished her to be able to ...
... Edith , a very charming , simple , unaffected girl of seventeen , with a very peculiar education . Karl Rosenfelt intended her to be his successor . He certainly hoped that she would marry in due time , but he wished her to be able to ...
Side 2
... Edith was seventeen , the house was in its most palmy days . Its reputation was European , and it had correspondents in every part of the known world ; and yet Karl could never discover by their means any trace of his elder brother Paul ...
... Edith was seventeen , the house was in its most palmy days . Its reputation was European , and it had correspondents in every part of the known world ; and yet Karl could never discover by their means any trace of his elder brother Paul ...
Side 3
... Edith seemed never happy save in each other's society . They talked , they read , they sang , and they played the spinet together ; they were often silent and contemplative ; Leon would watch the door with unwearied patience when she ...
... Edith seemed never happy save in each other's society . They talked , they read , they sang , and they played the spinet together ; they were often silent and contemplative ; Leon would watch the door with unwearied patience when she ...
Side 4
... Edith ; she bowed her head , listening with all her ears , but saying nothing . The young man took a sudden resolution : he determined to risk all on one bold cast . Without moving from his place , and almost closing his eyes , he spoke ...
... Edith ; she bowed her head , listening with all her ears , but saying nothing . The young man took a sudden resolution : he determined to risk all on one bold cast . Without moving from his place , and almost closing his eyes , he spoke ...
Side 5
... Edith in a very low tone . ' I may then dare to hope , that one day I may call you , Edith Rosenfelt , my wife ? ' The girl made no reply ; but she listened with evident pleasure to the young man's protestations of affection , and ...
... Edith in a very low tone . ' I may then dare to hope , that one day I may call you , Edith Rosenfelt , my wife ? ' The girl made no reply ; but she listened with evident pleasure to the young man's protestations of affection , and ...
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Side 31 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Side 30 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Side 5 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Side 8 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Side 1 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Side 28 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Side 24 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Side 9 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Side 15 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a. second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Side 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...