The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1806 |
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... persons of a congenial dis- position . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had penetration enough to see , that this charm was too dangerous to its pos- sessor to be allowed the character of a ...
... persons of a congenial dis- position . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had penetration enough to see , that this charm was too dangerous to its pos- sessor to be allowed the character of a ...
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... person , Emily resembled her mother ; having the same elegant symmetry of form , the same delicacy of features , and the same blue eyes , full of tender sweetness . But , lovely as was her person , it was the varied expression of her ...
... person , Emily resembled her mother ; having the same elegant symmetry of form , the same delicacy of features , and the same blue eyes , full of tender sweetness . But , lovely as was her person , it was the varied expression of her ...
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... person ; Emily therefore could not apply them to herself , though she was undoubt- edly the nymph of these shades . Having glanced round the little circle of her ac- quaintance without being detained by a suspicion as to whom they could ...
... person ; Emily therefore could not apply them to herself , though she was undoubt- edly the nymph of these shades . Having glanced round the little circle of her ac- quaintance without being detained by a suspicion as to whom they could ...
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... person appeared . She continued to listen , till timidity succeeded to surprise and de- light ; a timidity , increased by a remem- brance of the pencilled lines she had for- merly seen , and she hesitated whether to proceed , or to ...
... person appeared . She continued to listen , till timidity succeeded to surprise and de- light ; a timidity , increased by a remem- brance of the pencilled lines she had for- merly seen , and she hesitated whether to proceed , or to ...
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... persons whose rank and fortune flat- tered his warmest hope . But his sister , who was then addressed also by St. Aubert , perceived , or thought she per- ceived , that happiness and splendour were not the same ; and she did not ...
... persons whose rank and fortune flat- tered his warmest hope . But his sister , who was then addressed also by St. Aubert , perceived , or thought she per- ceived , that happiness and splendour were not the same ; and she did not ...
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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.