The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry, Volumen1G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795 |
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... he married a very amiable woman , his equal in birth , and not his fuperior in fortune . The late Monfieur St. Aubert's liberality , or extravagance , had fo much B2 St. ( 3 ) the flattering portrait of mankind, which ...
... he married a very amiable woman , his equal in birth , and not his fuperior in fortune . The late Monfieur St. Aubert's liberality , or extravagance , had fo much B2 St. ( 3 ) the flattering portrait of mankind, which ...
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... late wife , and then offered what the confi- dered to be confolation . Emily wept unceaf- ingly while fhe spoke ; St. Aubert was tran- quil , liftened to what fhe faid in filence , and then turned the difcourfe upon another fub- ject ...
... late wife , and then offered what the confi- dered to be confolation . Emily wept unceaf- ingly while fhe spoke ; St. Aubert was tran- quil , liftened to what fhe faid in filence , and then turned the difcourfe upon another fub- ject ...
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... late attack of the fever , and the fucceeding shock it had received from Madame St. Aubert's death had produced its prefent infirmity . His phyfician now ordered him to travel ; for it was percepti- ble that forrow had feized upon his ...
... late attack of the fever , and the fucceeding shock it had received from Madame St. Aubert's death had produced its prefent infirmity . His phyfician now ordered him to travel ; for it was percepti- ble that forrow had feized upon his ...
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... late an hour , apprehended he was unwell , and was going to enquire ; but , confidering that her fudden appearance at this hour might alarm him , fhe removed her light to the stair - cafe , and then stepped foftly to the closet . On ...
... late an hour , apprehended he was unwell , and was going to enquire ; but , confidering that her fudden appearance at this hour might alarm him , fhe removed her light to the stair - cafe , and then stepped foftly to the closet . On ...
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... late mo- ther . Presently he knelt down , and with a look fo folemn as she had seldom seen him affume , and which was mingled with a cer- tain wild expreffion , that partook more of horror than of any other character , he prayed ...
... late mo- ther . Presently he knelt down , and with a look fo folemn as she had seldom seen him affume , and which was mingled with a cer- tain wild expreffion , that partook more of horror than of any other character , he prayed ...
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Página 71 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven...
Página 149 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 8 - ... those green recesses which so beautifully adorn the bosom of these mountains ; where, under the shade of the lofty larch or cedar, they enjoyed their simple repast, made sweeter by the waters of the cool stream that crept along the turf, and by the breath of wild flowers and aromatic plants that fringed the rocks and inlaid the grass.
Página 113 - ... deep that the thunder of the torrent which was seen to foam along the bottom was scarcely heard to murmur. Over these crags rose others of stupendous height and fantastic shape ; some shooting into cones ; others impending far over their base, in huge masses of granite, along whose broken ridges...
Página 212 - ... in a state of peace, not of tumult : it is of a temperate and uniform nature, and can no more exist in a heart that is continually alive to minute circumstances, than in one that is dead to feeling.
Página 74 - ... and, while the muleteer led his animals slowly over the broken ground, the travellers had leisure to linger amid these solitudes, and to indulge the sublime reflections, which soften while they elevate the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God ! Still the enjoyment of St.
Página 79 - The scene of barrenness was here and there interrupted by the spreading branches of the larch and cedar, which threw their gloom over the cliff, or athwart the torrent that rolled in the vale.
Página 375 - Hand embodied to our fenfes plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilft in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vaft aflembly moving to and fro; Then all at once in air diflblves the wondrous mow.
Página 95 - ... colours, till the golden light darted over all the air, touched the lower points of the mountain's brow, and glanced in long sloping beams upon the valley and its stream. All nature seemed to have awakened from death into life. The spirit of St. Aubert was renovated. His heart was full ; he wept : and his thoughts ascended to the Great Creator.
Página 15 - A well-informed mind, he would say, is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking ; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.