The Recluse of Norway, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... wishes him to be actually like one of the family if the poor fellow is not to suffer the mortification of frequent slights from our acquaintance , we must give him the consequence he deserves , by shewing him proper attention before ...
... wishes him to be actually like one of the family if the poor fellow is not to suffer the mortification of frequent slights from our acquaintance , we must give him the consequence he deserves , by shewing him proper attention before ...
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... wish you so much to like Denmark . " Theodore struggled to overcome a sigh with a smile , as he replied to the amiable compliment . " That air does indeed re- mind me of Norway , of my old father , of " he was going to say Heinreich ...
... wish you so much to like Denmark . " Theodore struggled to overcome a sigh with a smile , as he replied to the amiable compliment . " That air does indeed re- mind me of Norway , of my old father , of " he was going to say Heinreich ...
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... wish to be trans- ported there , you know where to command the hand that is to do so , " said Ellesif , sportively . Theodore's eyes audibly told her how amiable she appeared to him . At that moment one of the gentlemen who had left the ...
... wish to be trans- ported there , you know where to command the hand that is to do so , " said Ellesif , sportively . Theodore's eyes audibly told her how amiable she appeared to him . At that moment one of the gentlemen who had left the ...
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... wish to please the person dearest to her , even though she could only do it by growing hideous to all the world beside . " Ellesif's glowing countenance , alternately animated and fearful , bore testimony to the sensibility that ...
... wish to please the person dearest to her , even though she could only do it by growing hideous to all the world beside . " Ellesif's glowing countenance , alternately animated and fearful , bore testimony to the sensibility that ...
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... wish you had not spoken . " " Pray let me be spoker for a moment , ' cried De Roye , elevating his voice . “ I am the culprit . I asked Ellesif who that stupid man was behind us ; Ellesif said so and so , and I replied so and so ...
... wish you had not spoken . " " Pray let me be spoker for a moment , ' cried De Roye , elevating his voice . “ I am the culprit . I asked Ellesif who that stupid man was behind us ; Ellesif said so and so , and I replied so and so ...
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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...