The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1806 |
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... Michael said there were several that way , but he did not know how far they extended , or even whether they were passable ; and St. Au- bert , who did not intend to travel after sun - set , asked what village they could reach about that ...
... Michael said there were several that way , but he did not know how far they extended , or even whether they were passable ; and St. Au- bert , who did not intend to travel after sun - set , asked what village they could reach about that ...
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... Michael the distance to the hamlet he had mentioned , but the man could not with certainty tell ; and Emily began to fear that he had mistaken the road . Here was no human being to assist or direct then they had left the shepherd and ...
... Michael the distance to the hamlet he had mentioned , but the man could not with certainty tell ; and Emily began to fear that he had mistaken the road . Here was no human being to assist or direct then they had left the shepherd and ...
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... Michael seemed endeavouring to keep up his courage by singing : his music , however , was not of a kind to di- sperse melancholy ; he sung , in a sort of chant , one of the most dismal ditties his present auditors had ever heard , and ...
... Michael seemed endeavouring to keep up his courage by singing : his music , however , was not of a kind to di- sperse melancholy ; he sung , in a sort of chant , one of the most dismal ditties his present auditors had ever heard , and ...
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... Michael quarrelling with the hostess , because she had refused to let his mules lie in a little room where he and three of her sons were to pass the night . The place was wretched enough , but there was no other for these people to ...
... Michael quarrelling with the hostess , because she had refused to let his mules lie in a little room where he and three of her sons were to pass the night . The place was wretched enough , but there was no other for these people to ...
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... Michael or his mules were obstinate , for they did not quit the old pace . Horses ' feet were now heard : a man rode up to the carriage , still order- ing the driver to stop ; and St. Aubert , who could no longer doubt his purpose , was ...
... Michael or his mules were obstinate , for they did not quit the old pace . Horses ' feet were now heard : a man rode up to the carriage , still order- ing the driver to stop ; and St. Aubert , who could no longer doubt his purpose , was ...
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Page 149 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 272 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 261 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply, A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Page 71 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even...
Page 71 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ? These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy, impart.
Page 212 - Above all, my dear Emily,' said he, 'do not indulge in the pride of fine feeling, the romantic error of amiable minds. Those who really possess sensibility ought early to be taught that it is a dangerous quality, which is continually extracting the excess of misery or delight from every surrounding circumstance.
Page 195 - And be it so. Let those deplore their doom Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn ; But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb, Can smile at fate, and wonder how they mourn. Shall spring to these sad scenes no more return ? Is yonder wave the sun's eternal bed ? Soon shall the orient with new lustre burn, And spring shall soon her vital influence shed, Again attune the grove, again adorn the mead.
Page 96 - Meanwhile the sullen gray of the eastern clouds began to blush, then to redden, and then to glow with a thousand colours, till the golden light darted over all the air, touched the lower points of the mountain's brow, and glanced in long sloping beams upon the valley and its stream. All nature seemed to have awakened from death into life. The spirit of St. Aubert was renovated. His heart was full ; he wept : and his thoughts ascended to the Great Creator.
Page 93 - In truth he was a strange and wayward wight, Fond of each gentle, and each dreadful scene, In darkness, and in storm, he found delight : Nor less, than when on ocean-wave serene The southern Sun diffused his dazzling shene.
Page 2 - I. 8 exhibiting awful forms, seen, and lost again, as the partial vapours rolled along, were sometimes barren, and gleamed through the blue tinge of air, and sometimes frowned with forests of gloomy pine, that swept downward to their base.