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" The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of fargone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay... "
The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious ... - Page 327
by Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1825
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The Literary chronicle and weekly review, Volume 2, Issues 33-83

1820 - 856 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it m such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in die trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow....
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow....
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The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopędia of anecdote, a coll ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed ont in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-be-gone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow....
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Selections, from Several Literary Works: Comprising The Declaration of ...

Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To 'find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetf'ulness of sorrow....
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow....
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 4

William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 382 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow....
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 3

1824 - 394 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchelness more striking and painful thanKi meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering' like a spectre, lonely...joyless, where all around is gay— to see it dressed following lines : " Sheis far from the laud wlnre her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are...
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The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and ...

Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 844 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and so woe-begone, as if it had tried to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow....
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