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Alice Berkeley Alice's ANNA MARIA PORTER answered beautiful Berkeley family bosom Browne Browne's Castle of Wolstenholme CHAP character Cheeveley Countess Countess of Somerset courage court cried curate dark death delight doubt dreadful Elfred Berkeley endeavoured exclaimed eyes fate fools believe forest George Chapman Geralda Giles Grey girl grave GUY MANNERING gypsy Hall of Hellingsley Hardingville Harry heard heart holy orders honours hope horse Humphrey Bourchier Huntley Huntley's JANE PORTER Kate knew Legend Book length light lingsley look Lord Grey Margaret Grey marriage ment mind morning mysterious neighbour ness never passed passion perhaps person poor Rectory Reynold Grey scarcely seemed shriek Sir Ambrose Grey Sir Maurice Sir Oliver Berkeley sorrow sort spirit story Susan Pembury suspicions Sylvana tears thee things thou hast thought took trembled vicar village virtue voice wicked woman young
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Page 70 - No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. Yea, there where very desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.
Page 70 - Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true Virginity.
Page 277 - The Scottish Chiefs, a Romance by Miss Jane Porter, Author of " Thaddeus of Warsaw," and " Remarks on Sir Philip Sidney's Aphorisms,
Page 69 - Tis chastity, my brother ; chastity : She that has that is clad in complete steel...
Page 278 - We ascribe great merit to this novel. Some of Laura's maxims deserve to become universal aphorisms, and the examples of her self-denial are told in a plain unaffected way.
Page 277 - THE PASTOR'S FIRESIDE. A Novel. By Miss JANE' PORTER, Author of Thaddeus of Warsaw, and Scottish Chiefs.
Page 278 - In the tales now before us we find much of the same merits as in her beautiful story of Adeline Mowbray ; the same truth and delicacy of sentiment, the same graceful simplicity in the dialogue parts of the work; and the same happy art of presenting 'ordinary feelings and occurrences in a manner that irresistibly commands our sympathy and affection.
Page 277 - Paris. 3 vol. 18mo. Jessy, or the Rose of Donald's Cottage. 4 vol. 11. 2s. The Bachelor and the Married Man, or the Equilibrium of the
Page 277 - Boards. NORTHERN IRISH TALES; founded on Facts. By J. Gamble, Esq. Author of Views of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland, Sarsfield, &c.
Page 278 - Boards. THE ANTIQUARY. A Novel. By the Author of Waverley, and Guy Mannering.