Count Robert of Paris and Castle DangerousRobert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Company, London., 1832 - 330 páginas |
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... feel as acutely as you would have me to do , this moment , however awful , would be easily borne . I had but to think of him as he is , to contrast his personal qualities with those of the mind , by which they are more than overbalanced ...
... feel as acutely as you would have me to do , this moment , however awful , would be easily borne . I had but to think of him as he is , to contrast his personal qualities with those of the mind , by which they are more than overbalanced ...
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... feeling of agonizing uncertainty , he began at length , more composedly , to recollect the little chance there was that the Princess would , even for her own sake , resentful as she was in the highest degree of her husband's ill ...
... feeling of agonizing uncertainty , he began at length , more composedly , to recollect the little chance there was that the Princess would , even for her own sake , resentful as she was in the highest degree of her husband's ill ...
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... Feel his pulse , therefore , Douban - con- sider him as one who hath suffered severe con- finement , with all its privations , and is about to be suddenly restored to the full enjoyment of life , and whatever renders life valuable ...
... Feel his pulse , therefore , Douban - con- sider him as one who hath suffered severe con- finement , with all its privations , and is about to be suddenly restored to the full enjoyment of life , and whatever renders life valuable ...
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... feel to plunge myself into the abyss , to the edge of which you have guided me . ” " Such a giddy and dangerous temptation is , " said the physician , " common to those who have not for a long time looked down from precipitous heights ...
... feel to plunge myself into the abyss , to the edge of which you have guided me . ” " Such a giddy and dangerous temptation is , " said the physician , " common to those who have not for a long time looked down from precipitous heights ...
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... feeling of extreme horror mixed with terror , he addressed . Douban thus : " The operation of wrong and cruelty , in the moment when they are first in- flicted , excites , of course , the utmost resentment of the sufferer ; nor is there ...
... feeling of extreme horror mixed with terror , he addressed . Douban thus : " The operation of wrong and cruelty , in the moment when they are first in- flicted , excites , of course , the utmost resentment of the sufferer ; nor is there ...
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Página 330 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 330 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 103 - It came flying through the air," says that good knight, " like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination.
Página 71 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head.
Página 231 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Página 4 - One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Página 14 - WILL you hear a Spanish lady. How shee wooed an English man ? Garments gay as rich as may be Decked with jewels she had on. Of a comely countenance and grace was she, And by birth and parentage of high degree.
Página 197 - Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science, betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.
Página 162 - Curious, not knowing, not exa.ct, but nice, Form short .ideas, and offend in arts (As most in manners) by a love to parts. Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And...