The Recluse of Norway, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... joined them . While the set round the instrument were tossing over music - books , and settling the different parts they were to take in the next duet or trio , they formed an agree able party quarré . By the time the performers had ...
... joined them . While the set round the instrument were tossing over music - books , and settling the different parts they were to take in the next duet or trio , they formed an agree able party quarré . By the time the performers had ...
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... joined his youngest daughter . The last touches of graceful wit were left for him to bestow on the con- versation . Animated by private occur- rences , and full of proud hopes , the Count never appeared to more advantage . Theo- dore ...
... joined his youngest daughter . The last touches of graceful wit were left for him to bestow on the con- versation . Animated by private occur- rences , and full of proud hopes , the Count never appeared to more advantage . Theo- dore ...
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... joined them . He rallied his daughter upon the neces- sity she had been under of asking herself to sing at last , after having in the beginning of the evening complained of a cold , and silenced her friends ' applications . " I would ...
... joined them . He rallied his daughter upon the neces- sity she had been under of asking herself to sing at last , after having in the beginning of the evening complained of a cold , and silenced her friends ' applications . " I would ...
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... joined his eldest daughter ; De Roye was looking at her with unequivocal yet calm admiration . " All those charms were in the bud , when she was in England , Ellesif , " said he ; and you were a dear , entertaining little girl ; and one ...
... joined his eldest daughter ; De Roye was looking at her with unequivocal yet calm admiration . " All those charms were in the bud , when she was in England , Ellesif , " said he ; and you were a dear , entertaining little girl ; and one ...
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... but he was not pre- pared for so much information , reflection , and originality of thought . A natural love of reading , joined to the important advantage of having lived in the best society from 50 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY .
... but he was not pre- pared for so much information , reflection , and originality of thought . A natural love of reading , joined to the important advantage of having lived in the best society from 50 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY .
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Aardal admiration Ager-huus agitation agreeable amuse animated answer appeared asked attachment beauty believed blush Catalonia chaprone character charms cheek Chevalier Christiana Colonel Muller colour Condé Roncevalles Copenhagen Coperstad Count Lauven Count Lauvenheilm countenance Countess Anastasia court Danish cabinet daugh daughters dear delight Denmark Dofrestom Don Balthazar's dore elegant Ellesif emotion exclaimed expression eyes father fear feelings Gaston de Roye graceful hand happy hear heard heart heilm Heinreich her's Holstein honour hope imagination indulge interest King knew ladies leaving Theodore letter lived look Madame Sauveur Marquise ment mind ness never noble Norway obliged observed painful party passion person pleasure pray present Prince Princess Ursini racter replied Theodore Roye's Señor Guevara sensibility sentiment shew silence sister Sleswick smile soul Spain spoke surprize Sweden sweet tears tell tenderness Theo Theodore felt Theodore read Theodore's thing thought tion voice wished young
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Page 138 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair : Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Page 59 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 306 - One in his breast may wear thee, But ne'er with love like mine ! As the last notes of the sweet singer died on the ear, Ellesif turned to look at Theodore. He was still leaning against the harp,, and his eyes, surcharged with tears, were fixed with a sad and fond gaze upon her. Wild throbs of...