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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... hope to know the fatality which thus wounds it . " " By the love you have professed for me , ” cried I , seizing his ... hope - yet surely time — may I hope nothing from time ? —age would steal upon me unobserved were you but to allow me ...
... hope to know the fatality which thus wounds it . " " By the love you have professed for me , ” cried I , seizing his ... hope - yet surely time — may I hope nothing from time ? —age would steal upon me unobserved were you but to allow me ...
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... hope sufficiently to reward ; and winged alike with hope and fear , pursued your route with inde- fatigable diligence ; having left a letter which spoke of London as my asylum . " To this generous recital , my Lord , and self , replied ...
... hope sufficiently to reward ; and winged alike with hope and fear , pursued your route with inde- fatigable diligence ; having left a letter which spoke of London as my asylum . " To this generous recital , my Lord , and self , replied ...
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... hope of being overtaken , though that to me is inevitable ruin . The fatal fire , therefore , which now these entan- gling woods almost hide from us , is of all the wonders of the late evening , the most visible interposition of Heaven ...
... hope of being overtaken , though that to me is inevitable ruin . The fatal fire , therefore , which now these entan- gling woods almost hide from us , is of all the wonders of the late evening , the most visible interposition of Heaven ...
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