The False Step ...: And The Sisters ...Printed and pub. by J. & J. Harper, 1832 - 982 Seiten |
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... manner , but his words came slowly , sadly , and with difficulty . A modern poet has shown how grief , " lingering in its lengthened swell , " may be betrayed by music . Speech , when the heart is deeply affected , has the same power ...
... manner , but his words came slowly , sadly , and with difficulty . A modern poet has shown how grief , " lingering in its lengthened swell , " may be betrayed by music . Speech , when the heart is deeply affected , has the same power ...
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... manner , was obliged to listen , when Hamond had withdrawn , to facts which distressed and as- tonished him . But as Mr. Langham had written more particulars than could be well detailed , the manuscript committed to his son shall be ...
... manner , was obliged to listen , when Hamond had withdrawn , to facts which distressed and as- tonished him . But as Mr. Langham had written more particulars than could be well detailed , the manuscript committed to his son shall be ...
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... manner that made me think him so , more particularly by the side of my mother , for her smiling face on all occasions beamed with toleration and forgiveness . So , at least , I unfortunately thought ; for , while I freely confessed to ...
... manner that made me think him so , more particularly by the side of my mother , for her smiling face on all occasions beamed with toleration and forgiveness . So , at least , I unfortunately thought ; for , while I freely confessed to ...
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... manner , how irresistible ! -- As I approached her then , so do I think of her now ; and so closely is she associated in my heart and memory with the image of my loved Amelia , that my mind's eye seldom beholds the one unaccompanied by ...
... manner , how irresistible ! -- As I approached her then , so do I think of her now ; and so closely is she associated in my heart and memory with the image of my loved Amelia , that my mind's eye seldom beholds the one unaccompanied by ...
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... manner ; and Amelia at length complained that I was reserved and unlike myself in the presence of her father . I made the best excuse the case would admit , and pleaded short acquaint- But the happy life I had led , seemed altogether ...
... manner ; and Amelia at length complained that I was reserved and unlike myself in the presence of her father . I made the best excuse the case would admit , and pleaded short acquaint- But the happy life I had led , seemed altogether ...
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acquaintance admiration affection Amelia appeared beauty believe beloved blessed brother Captain Bathurst CHAPTER cheek Cheltenham child circumstances Colonel Hawkins considered countenance Cres Cressingham Crosbie dear father dear Hamond dear Jeannette deep distress endeavoured exclaimed eyes father favour fear feel felt forgive girl Grant grief happiness hear heard heart Heaven Henry Milman hope hour imagination Jean Jeannette's knew Lady Everard Langham Court letter Lindsay Bathurst Lindsay's lips little hour look Lyndon Madame de Stael manner marriage Matilda melancholy memory mind mingled misery Miss Langham Miss Sherrard mother nature nette never once pain passed paused perhaps reasonable foundation received recollections remember reply scarcely seemed Sidmouth silent Sir William Sherrard sister smile soon sorrow soul speak spirit spoke strove suffered tears tell thing thought thurst tion tone truth Uncon uttered voice weep wish woman words
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Seite 116 - O, never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify. As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie...
Seite 125 - ALAS ! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Seite 38 - I feel the impulse — yet I do not plunge; I see the peril — yet do not recede; And my brain reels— and yet my foot is firm : There is a power upon me which withholds, And makes it my fatality to live...
Seite 14 - OFT o'er my brain does that strange fancy roll Which makes the present (while the flash doth last) Seem a mere semblance of some unknown past Mixed with such feelings, as perplex the soul Self-questioned in her sleep ; and some have said We lived, ere yet this robe of flesh we wore.
Seite 61 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Seite 100 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Seite 37 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Seite 29 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again ; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain ! But when I speak— thou dost not...
Seite 56 - O aching time! O moments big as years! All as ye pass swell out the monstrous truth, And press it so upon our weary griefs That unbelief has not a space to breathe. Saturn, sleep on: — O thoughtless, why did I Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude? Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes? Saturn, sleep on! while at thy feet I weep.
Seite 66 - Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment — born and dying With the blest tone which made me ! Enter from below a CHAMOIS HUNTER.