The Recluse of Norway, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... short dinner , Count Lauvenheilm returned . He looked over Theodore's transcriptions , and again expressed complete satisfaction with their correctness . " We are now released , " he said , " and may take our holiday . Some friends sup ...
... short dinner , Count Lauvenheilm returned . He looked over Theodore's transcriptions , and again expressed complete satisfaction with their correctness . " We are now released , " he said , " and may take our holiday . Some friends sup ...
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... herself , that she had really been mistaken in the young secretary , for that he was not only the handsomest man in the room , but surprizingly agree- able ; -in short , she began to think he 28 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY .
... herself , that she had really been mistaken in the young secretary , for that he was not only the handsomest man in the room , but surprizingly agree- able ; -in short , she began to think he 28 THE RECLUSE OF NORWAY .
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Anna Maria Porter. able ; -in short , she began to think he was not quite unlike a Frenchman ! In truth Theodore felt instant exhilara- tion , and a pleasure unknown before , at the sight of Ellesif ; her delightful spirits were ...
Anna Maria Porter. able ; -in short , she began to think he was not quite unlike a Frenchman ! In truth Theodore felt instant exhilara- tion , and a pleasure unknown before , at the sight of Ellesif ; her delightful spirits were ...
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... short , I am very humble with those I love , but very proud to all the world besides . " 66 A long silence followed . Ellesif's heart palpitated so violently that she could not reply . Alarmed at an agitation caused by the manner of ...
... short , I am very humble with those I love , but very proud to all the world besides . " 66 A long silence followed . Ellesif's heart palpitated so violently that she could not reply . Alarmed at an agitation caused by the manner of ...
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... short , arms not arts were the weapons with which he chose to conquér ! In the evening of the same day Count Lauvenheilm was stripped of all his employments , and commanded into a kind of honourable banishment by the grant of a province ...
... short , arms not arts were the weapons with which he chose to conquér ! In the evening of the same day Count Lauvenheilm was stripped of all his employments , and commanded into a kind of honourable banishment by the grant of a province ...
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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...