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... lips . Sleep had not visited his eyes for six and thirty hours . He was faint with hunger ; weary with watching , and with the excess of his emotions . He tasted of his food ; he drank with avidity of the water ; and reeling like a ...
... lips . Sleep had not visited his eyes for six and thirty hours . He was faint with hunger ; weary with watching , and with the excess of his emotions . He tasted of his food ; he drank with avidity of the water ; and reeling like a ...
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... lips , gazing at this fatal inscription . It was as if a voice from the sepulchre had sounded in his ears , Prepare ! " Hope forsook him . There was his sen- tence , recorded in those dismal words . The future stood unveiled before him ...
... lips , gazing at this fatal inscription . It was as if a voice from the sepulchre had sounded in his ears , Prepare ! " Hope forsook him . There was his sen- tence , recorded in those dismal words . The future stood unveiled before him ...
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... lips . He remained on the ground , sometimes sitting , sometimes lying ; at intervals , sleeping heavily ; and when not sleeping , silently brooding over what was to come , or talking aloud , in dis- ordered speech , of his wrongs , of ...
... lips . He remained on the ground , sometimes sitting , sometimes lying ; at intervals , sleeping heavily ; and when not sleeping , silently brooding over what was to come , or talking aloud , in dis- ordered speech , of his wrongs , of ...
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... lips and the flash of his dark eyes as he fed his gaze upon her ; but he finished the picture , and I gave him a fair field . He chose the broadsword , and hacked away at me like a man . " And the result " -I asked . " I am here ...
... lips and the flash of his dark eyes as he fed his gaze upon her ; but he finished the picture , and I gave him a fair field . He chose the broadsword , and hacked away at me like a man . " And the result " -I asked . " I am here ...
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... lips to restrain an expression of pleasure . " I have not lived long , any where , sir ! " she answered , half archly , " but I played in this garden when not much older than you ! " Percie looked confused , and pulled up his cravat ...
... lips to restrain an expression of pleasure . " I have not lived long , any where , sir ! " she answered , half archly , " but I played in this garden when not much older than you ! " Percie looked confused , and pulled up his cravat ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abimelech Admetus admiration Alcestis Almack's Amieri answered appeared arms beautiful bosom countenance countess cravat cried dark daugh daughter dear death door dress Ephene exclaimed eyes face fancy father fear feeling fell Fiametta flowers followed France frigate gaze gentleman girl Giulio gout grace Grampus hand happy head heard heart heaven honour Hophara horse hour Iminild knew Lady Imogen Lady Ravelgold laugh light lips look lover Madame Marana marriage ment mind Monsieur Bougainville morning mother ness never night Nightshade noble once passed passion Percie Poland poor Quaver racter replied rose round Salvator Rosa scene schooner seemed smile soon soul spirit stood stranger tears thee thing thou thought tion tone took Tremlet trouble turned Victor Marchand Violanta voice Voltaire walk wife window woman words young youth Zorah
Pasajes populares
Página 283 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 138 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 15 - Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest ! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest ! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love, and Pleasure ! Ae fond kiss, and then we sever ! Ae fareweel, alas ! for ever ! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Página 151 - A maiden never bold ; Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion Blush'd at herself...
Página 263 - With what a compell'd face a woman sits While she is drawing ! I have noted divers Either to feign smiles, or suck in the lips, To have a little mouth ; ruffle the cheeks, To have the dimple seen ; and so disorder The face with affectation...
Página 10 - They sin who tell us love can die. ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Página 170 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Página 129 - Feebly must they have felt Who, in old time, attired with snakes and whips The vengeful Furies. Beautiful regards Were turned on me — the face of her I loved ; The Wife and Mother pitifully fixing Tender reproaches, insupportable...
Página 15 - ALTHO' thou maun never be mine, Altho' even hope is denied ; 'Tis sweeter for thee despairing, Than aught in the world beside — Jessy ! Here's a health, &c. I mourn thro' the gay, gaudy day, As, hopeless, I muse on thy charms : But welcome the dream o' sweet slumber, For then I am lockt in thy arms — Jessy ! Here's a health, &c.