Continental Adventures: A Novel, Band 3Hurst, Robinson, 1826 - 400 Seiten |
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agony Alps arms arrived asked banditti beautiful Bellairs Bishop of Sion Blue Devils Breadalbane Cadenabbia Caroline St Caroline's Chiavenna child Clair Colonel Cleveland consent Count Montini countenance dear deep delight Diogenes dreadful dress emotion English escape exclaimed eyes father feelings felt Florence Grindelwald hands happiness heard heart heaven honour hope Hunlocke's instantly Italian Italy knew Lady Hunlocke Lady Montfort Lady St lake Lake Lugano Lake of Como laughing learnt letter Lindsay Lindsay's little Count look Lord Lumbercourt Lord Montfort Lord Roslin Lord Setoun lover Lugano M'cMuckleman Margaret St marriage marry Milan mind misery Miss Emily Harriet Miss St morning mountains never night once party pass passion Porlezza promise refuse road robbers Sbirri scarcely scene seemed seized shew Simplon soon Swiss tell thing thou thought tion told tone travellers tree utter Valais village voice wife woman words
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Seite 110 - She that has that is clad in complete steel ; And, like a quiver'd nymph, with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds, Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity...
Seite 259 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Seite 72 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Seite 397 - Kept the word of promise to the ear, But broke it to the hope.
Seite 72 - Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Seite 73 - So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions, mix'd with love And sweet compliance, which declare unfeign'd Union of mind, or in us both one soul ; Harmony to behold in wedded pair More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.
Seite 275 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and tears
Seite 98 - Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy ; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seized at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins...
Seite 110 - ... 1 sciocco vulgo non gli vuoi dar fede, se non le vede e tocca chiare e piane. Per questo io so che l'inesperienza farà al mio canto dar poca credenza.
Seite 380 - Deiopea, conubio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo, omnes ut tecum mentis pro talibus annos exigat et pulchra faciat te prole parentem.