Edward, tr. from the Fr. of the author of Ourika |
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admiration affection afforded appearance arms arrived attempt attention beauty became believe Burney called Catherine cause character child comfort conduct confidence continued conversation copies countenance dared dear death delight describe desire ditto Duke duty Edward Elinor Ellen endeavoured entered expression eyes father fear feelings felt forget formed girl give grief hand happiness heart Henry honour hope hour idea impossible interest kindness knew Lady late leave length less letter live look lost Madame de Nevers manner Maréchal d'Olonne means ment mind Miss moment mother nature object observed offered painful passed passion peace perhaps person pleasure poor possessed present promised Rachel reason received reflection remained rendered replied scene seemed sometimes soon suffer tears Theresa thing thought tion took Trevelyan turned wish young
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Էջ 205 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends , — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Էջ 67 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
Էջ 80 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Էջ 205 - I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Էջ 271 - How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. How many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse ; Whence, tumbling headlong from the height of life, They furnish matter for the tragic Muse.
Էջ 156 - tis shown ye there ! Look yonder at that cloud, which through the sky Sailing alone, doth cross in her career The rolling moon ! I watched it as it came, And deemed the deep opaque would blot her beams ; But, melting like a wreath of snow, it hangs In folds of wavy silver round, and clothes The orb with richer beauties than her own, Then passing, leaves her in her light serene.
Էջ 294 - So God loved the world, that he gave his only -begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Էջ 233 - O'erwearied nature sinks. The scorching Sun, As pitiless as proud Prosperity, Darts on him his full beams : gasping he lies Arraigning with his looks the patient skies, While that inhuman trader lifts on high The mangling scourge.
Էջ 156 - tis shown ye there ! Look yonder at that cloud, which, through the sky Sailing alone, doth cross, in her career, The rolling Moon ! I...
Էջ 32 - Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him...