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... night just this one night - it is not much to ask - and to - morrow I will not be your hindrance a moment . ' But Mr. Douglas was vexed at such folly , and she could answer nothing better to his questions than that a thought had come ...
... night just this one night - it is not much to ask - and to - morrow I will not be your hindrance a moment . ' But Mr. Douglas was vexed at such folly , and she could answer nothing better to his questions than that a thought had come ...
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... night for his coming , but could hear no sound , save the voice of the waters , and the foot- step of the tempest , as he rushed along the deep . She then went in again , and walked to and fro in the room with a restless step , but an ...
... night for his coming , but could hear no sound , save the voice of the waters , and the foot- step of the tempest , as he rushed along the deep . She then went in again , and walked to and fro in the room with a restless step , but an ...
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... night , and althongh no struggles of parting life were heard or seen , she died on his breast . - Head- pieces and tail - pieces . s PORTABLE CAMERA OBSCURA . This amusing optical toy may be made in a box , that will go into the pocket ...
... night , and althongh no struggles of parting life were heard or seen , she died on his breast . - Head- pieces and tail - pieces . s PORTABLE CAMERA OBSCURA . This amusing optical toy may be made in a box , that will go into the pocket ...
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... night at a lattice.- This sort of conversation , though strictly prohibited by the laws , was yet connived at . The dam- sel appeased so kind , that he ven- tured to offer her the token of a half - blown flower . This she ac- cepted ...
... night at a lattice.- This sort of conversation , though strictly prohibited by the laws , was yet connived at . The dam- sel appeased so kind , that he ven- tured to offer her the token of a half - blown flower . This she ac- cepted ...
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... night , would ar- gue me a person very unworthy the character I bear , to let it pass unregarded . To prove me that adventurous knight , which your evasive expression would have given the noble lady to un- derstand , may , perhaps , be ...
... night , would ar- gue me a person very unworthy the character I bear , to let it pass unregarded . To prove me that adventurous knight , which your evasive expression would have given the noble lady to un- derstand , may , perhaps , be ...
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appearance arms asked bath beauty body brother Caliph called Casket chalybeate spring church cold continued CowIE and STRANGE cried Dakianos daugh daughter death Devil's Dyke door dreadful dress eunuchs eyes father fear feel feet Fetter Lane fire gave Gelert give gold half hand happy Haroun head heard heart honour hour Jemlikha king Knapp Hill lady Lancashire Lelamain length light live look lord ment mind morning never night palace passed Paternoster Row pawnbroker person poor present Printed and Published Published by CowIE racter replied returned Rhys Meredith robber rock round Ruth seen side sleep slightly saline smile soon stranger street sulphureous sword tell temazcalli thee thing thou thought tion Tom Willis took turn uncon vizier voice walk whole woman words young Zesbet
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Página 158 - She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking...
Página 157 - The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction. She was led into society ; and they tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate her grief, and wean her from the tragical story of her loves. But it was all in vain. There are some strokes of calamity that scath and scorch the soul — that penetrate to the vital seat of happiness — and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.
Página 322 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Página 157 - When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him ; when blasted in fortune, and disgrace, and danger darkened around his name, she loved him the more ardently for his very sufferings. If, then, his fate could awaken the sympathy even of his foes, what must have been the agony of her...
Página 157 - The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay, — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.
Página 48 - O'erturned his infant's bed he found, With blood-stained covert rent ; And all around, the walls and ground With recent blood besprent. He called his child — no voice replied — He searched, with terror wild ; Blood, blood he found on every side, But nowhere found his child. " Hell-hound ! my child's by thee devoured," The frantic father cried ; And to the hilt his vengeful sword He plunged in Gelert's side.
Página 157 - The noble indignation with which he repelled the charge of treason against his country— the eloquent vindication of his name, and his pathetic appeal to posterity, in the hopeless hour of condemnation — all these entered deeply into every generous bosom, and even his enemies lamented the stern policy that dictated his execution.
Página 363 - And if they hap to fail of these They plague them with their warrants. But now they feed them with good cheer, And what they want they take in beer, For Christmas comes but once a year, And then they shall be merry.
Página 158 - It completely won the heart of a brave officer, who paid his addresses to her, and thought that one so true to the dead could not but prove affectionate to the living.
Página 157 - To render her widowed situation more desolate, she had incurred her father's displeasure by her unfortunate attachment, and was an exile from the paternal roof. But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities.