The Recluse of Norway, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... could not help ascribing it to that general indifference which marked her manner . Nothing affected her strongly ; even ambition , her only passion , seemed D 6 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY . -59 boldened by the number of its adherents: ...
... could not help ascribing it to that general indifference which marked her manner . Nothing affected her strongly ; even ambition , her only passion , seemed D 6 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY . -59 boldened by the number of its adherents: ...
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Anna Maria Porter. strongly ; even ambition , her only passion , seemed in her heart to change its nature , and to become a lukewarm feeling . This deadness of character was so discordant with her glow of beauty , that , in the very ...
Anna Maria Porter. strongly ; even ambition , her only passion , seemed in her heart to change its nature , and to become a lukewarm feeling . This deadness of character was so discordant with her glow of beauty , that , in the very ...
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... passion was too hotly engaged in the success of these plans , to leave his otherwise upright heart either the power or the wish to find this act of his King's indefensible . The situation of war minister was given him , and from that ...
... passion was too hotly engaged in the success of these plans , to leave his otherwise upright heart either the power or the wish to find this act of his King's indefensible . The situation of war minister was given him , and from that ...
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... passion degrades the soul so completely . To what meanness of trick and falsehood does it not bow the proudest mind ! to what selfishness and unfeelingness does it not bring the kindest heart ! Count Lauvenheilm , the fondest of fathers ...
... passion degrades the soul so completely . To what meanness of trick and falsehood does it not bow the proudest mind ! to what selfishness and unfeelingness does it not bring the kindest heart ! Count Lauvenheilm , the fondest of fathers ...
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... passion concealed , his cha- racter appeared perfect in the eyes of his protegé , who lived now in a round of such delightful emotions , that his aspirations after other ties in the land of his fathers , were vanishing like a dream ...
... passion concealed , his cha- racter appeared perfect in the eyes of his protegé , who lived now in a round of such delightful emotions , that his aspirations after other ties in the land of his fathers , were vanishing like a dream ...
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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...