Peers and Parvenus: A Novel, Band 3H. Colburn, 1846 |
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accusation acquaintance Agatha appeared apprized arrival beautiful Bewchester Bilston Park brother charm Clutterbuck Colonel Cleveland companion countenance Countess von Adlerberg courage cousin cried daughter dear dear Jane departure Dr Ashstead Duke of Attleborough Edrezza endeavoured England English eyes face fair fair lady Fairford fancy father favour feelings felucca George Joddrell girl Glebestone hand happiness heart Hecks heiress Herbert Davenport honour hope indignation intitled Italy Jane Jervis Cleve journey Julia knew Lady Hillingdon letter lips Lord John Howard Lord Wrexhill Madame von Adlerberg ment Messina mind Miss Hecksworth Monsieur Gervais mother nature never object obtained pain party perceiving perhaps Philip Fairfax poor Jervis poor Lucy poor old present pretext Prince Lobanoff prisoner quitted Naples racter rendered replied scarcely Sicilian expedition Sicily sight sister smile spot squire stranger tears thank thought tion Towler voice woman word Wrexhill's young
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Seite 27 - Accoudé à l'embrasure d'un créneau et regardant à vol d'hirondelle cette ville où je ne connaissais personne, où mon nom était parfaitement inconnu, j'étais tombé dans une méditation profonde. Devant tous ces objets, toutes ces formes, que je voyais et que je ne devais probablement plus revoir, il me prenait des doutes sur ma propre identité, je me sentais si absent de moi-même, transporté si loin de ma sphère, que tout cela me paraissait une hallucination, un rêve étrange...
Seite 289 - All roy youth o'erthrown ! Ml o'erthrown ! SONG OF THE OUTCAST. I WAS born on a winter's morn, Welcomed to life with hate and scorn, Torn from a famished mother's side, Who left me here, with a laugh, and— died ; Left me here with the curse of life, To be tossed about in the burning strife, Linked to nothing but shame and pain, Echoing nothing but man's disdain ; O, that I might again be born, With treble my strength of hate and scorn ! I was born by a sudden shock — Born by the blow of a ruffian...
Seite 213 - A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close around his feet, — It is the distant and the dim We go so far. to meet.
Seite 240 - WHEN the gloom is deepest round thee, When the bonds of grief have bound thee ; And in loneliness and sorrow, By the poisoned springs of life Thou sittest, yearning for a morrow That will free thee from the strife ; Look not upwards, for above thee Neither sun nor star is gleaming ; Look not round for some to love thee ; Put not faith in mortal seeming ; Lightly would they hold, and leave thee, — Man and woman would deceive thee. But in the depths of thine own soul Descend, and mightier powers...
Seite 159 - ... est peu utile sans le silence , car on ne se sépare des hommes que pour parler à Dieu , en interrompant tout entretien avec les créatures. « Le silence est l'entretien de la Divinité, le langage des anges, l'éloquence du ciel, l'art de persuader Dieu, l'ornement des solitudes...
Seite 85 - Cleveland, and assume, as a rich and travelled widow, the consequence which Europe denied. While contemplating her cold-blooded audacity, and the influence produced by the discovery of her baseness on her disgusted admirer, Jervis Cleve admitted the full force of the theory that the decency of Woman exercises as powerful a restraint on the habits of society, as the power of the laws over the populace : and that whosoever corrupts a spotless female nature, poisons one of the wholesome springs securing...
Seite 38 - Attleborough quitted the room ; " for with the easy morality of his age and order, on reaching the delinquents, he would sit down to a friendly dinner with them and accompany them to the opera afterwards, instead of exercising his influence as I could wish. But it is so essential, my dear Cleve, that a letter I have, addressed to Lord John, should reach his hands, that I do not scruple to entreat...
Seite 270 - But the emotion of both had now become so apparent, even to the guileless Jane, that, on pretext of wishing to ascertain that Miss Hecksworth's ponies were placed in the shade, she left them to themselves. * " I have come in person to answer your letter...
Seite 299 - Cleveland's departure, he might be presented to Mrs Hecksworth as her son-in-law, and the future master of Bilston :) " I am prepared for them, fair lady, — I am prepared for you. The risks of an adventurous life have taught me never to go unprovided against the treachery of my friends, and malice of my foes ; and you will learn to your cost, and the cost of your lover, that I am not to...
Seite 306 - Bless my soul and body ! how ever the fellow who's been the means of bringing such a sad affront on the old Hall, got footing there, is more than I can guess ! — Ay, ay ! — I always prophesied no good would come of your visit to foreign parts.