The Recess, Or, A Tale of Other TimesUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 - 364 Seiten First published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and marriage, this novel portrays women involved in political intrigues and overseas journeys. It is set during the reign of Elizabeth I, and features as narrators, fictional daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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... fixed at last on me - fixed , I may well say , -how deep , how deadly , was the effect of that single look ! —his unfinished speech to the Queen became annihilated , while his quivering lips , in broken sounds , breathed forth ...
... fixed at last on me - fixed , I may well say , -how deep , how deadly , was the effect of that single look ! —his unfinished speech to the Queen became annihilated , while his quivering lips , in broken sounds , breathed forth ...
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... fixed on my inanimate portrait . I saw , or rather I felt , the tender expressions her unguarded soul uttered.— What dreary ages have elapsed since my eyes have been thus per- mitted to fix themselves on hers — since in this dear hand I ...
... fixed on my inanimate portrait . I saw , or rather I felt , the tender expressions her unguarded soul uttered.— What dreary ages have elapsed since my eyes have been thus per- mitted to fix themselves on hers — since in this dear hand I ...
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... fixed on a picture of my daughter which hung at my bosom , I presented it to him.- " And do you too , beloved Henry , " returned I , in a broken voice , " remember that the mother who gives you this , would have comprized in the ...
... fixed on a picture of my daughter which hung at my bosom , I presented it to him.- " And do you too , beloved Henry , " returned I , in a broken voice , " remember that the mother who gives you this , would have comprized in the ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | vii |
Notes to the Introduction | xxxviii |
Chronology of Events in Sophia Lees Life | xlv |
Urheberrecht | |
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affection alike Ann Radcliffe appeared arms behold bosom Cecil charm conduct Court cried danger dared daughter dear death Dornock dreadful Duke duke of Norfolk Earl Elizabeth Ellinor England eyes fancy fatal fate favorite fear fortune Frances Burney gave Goldsmith Gothic Gothic fiction Gothic novel grief hand happy heart Heaven Hester Piozzi hope Hume idea indulgence Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle King knew Lady Arundel Lady Pembroke Lady Southampton Lee's letter London Lord Arlington Lord Burghley Lord Essex Lord Leicester lover Madam marriage Mary Matilda mind misfortune Mortimer mother nature never noble Norfolk novel once passion perhaps Piozzi pleasure Prince prison Queen of Scots Recess resolved retired Robertson safety secret seemed sense sensible servants shewed sighed silence sister Sophia Lee soul suffer sunk surprize sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion Tracey voice wish wretch youth