The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 |
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Abbey affection alike Anana annihilated arms astonishment bosom charm conceal conduct Court cried danger dared daugh daughter dear death desperate dreadful Elizabeth Ellinor England escaped eyes fair lady fancy fatal fate favour favourite fear fixed fortune gave grief groaned hand happiness heart Heaven hope horrors imagine indulgence innocence interval Kenilworth Castle knew Lady Arundell Lady Mortimer Lady Pembroke lamented learnt Lord Arlington Lord Burleigh Lord Essex Lord Leicester Lord Leicester's Lord Pembroke lover marriage Matilda ment mind misfortune Miss Cecil mother nature never noble object once passion perceived perhaps pleasure Queen of Scots racter rage reason recollected resolved Rouen safety secret seemed sense servants shewed sighed silence Sir Francis Walsingham Sir Philip Sydney sister slaves soon soul suffer sunk surprize sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion venture villain voice whole wholly wild wish wretch
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Seite 135 - And, father Cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven; If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Seite 234 - Court> which gave me the little relief of solitude. -Severed thus at once from every tie both »£ nature and of choice, dead while yet breathing, the deep melancholy which had seized upon my brain soon tinctured my. whole mass of blood — my intellects- strangely blackened and confused, frequently realized scenes and objects that never existed, annihilating many which daily .passed before my eyes.
Seite 55 - Perhaps even at the moment she laid that beauteous head, so many hearts were born to worship, on the block, every agony of death was doubled, by the knowledge her daughter brought her there. — Why did I not perish in the Recess by lightning? Why did not the ocean entomb me? Why, why, oh God, was I permitted to survive my innocence?
Seite 130 - My fate, said I to myself, is fully, is finally accomplished. A sad inheritor of my mother's misfortunes, methinks they are all only retraced in me — led like her a guiltless captive through a vindictive mob, the object of vulgar insult and opprobrium — like her enclosed unjustly in a prison, even in the bloom of life a broken constitution is anticipating the infirmities of age.