Matilda: A Tale of the Day, Том 2H. Colburn, 1825 |
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... situation situation cannot cause it . Ruins are most impressive when abs- tracted and isolated ; whereas here they are defiled with all the daily filth of incongruous inhabitancy . - It is not mental association ; -- for what are , or ...
... situation situation cannot cause it . Ruins are most impressive when abs- tracted and isolated ; whereas here they are defiled with all the daily filth of incongruous inhabitancy . - It is not mental association ; -- for what are , or ...
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... situation . It was one of those delicious days when Nature's self seems new ; and here , on this favoured spot , whose refined soli- tudes are purposely elevated above the grosser cares of the lower world , its sunshiny smile tempts a ...
... situation . It was one of those delicious days when Nature's self seems new ; and here , on this favoured spot , whose refined soli- tudes are purposely elevated above the grosser cares of the lower world , its sunshiny smile tempts a ...
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... situation , he could not but be sensible , -the serenity of his recent enjoyment , which had owed its existence to the oblivion of every thing but present hap- piness , was not a little disturbed . As they pursued their usual evening ...
... situation , he could not but be sensible , -the serenity of his recent enjoyment , which had owed its existence to the oblivion of every thing but present hap- piness , was not a little disturbed . As they pursued their usual evening ...
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... situation , the idea of her name being made a common bye - word was most odious . The fact was , that Harry Wordsworth had rattled on inconside- rately , not from positive embarrass- ment , for of that . at no period of his life had he ...
... situation , the idea of her name being made a common bye - word was most odious . The fact was , that Harry Wordsworth had rattled on inconside- rately , not from positive embarrass- ment , for of that . at no period of his life had he ...
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... situation . Bit- ter were the reflections which this con- viction gave rise to , and so strong was their effect upon her nerves , that she had some difficulty in keeping up that appearance of composure which she was very anxious to ...
... situation . Bit- ter were the reflections which this con- viction gave rise to , and so strong was their effect upon her nerves , that she had some difficulty in keeping up that appearance of composure which she was very anxious to ...
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acquaintance admiration anxious appearance arrival Augustus avoid Baronet beautiful Boulby CHAPTER Colonel Canteen conceal connexion dear Delaval delay delight divorce Dornton doubt Emily endeavouring excited eyes fate favour fear feelings felt felucca female Genoa glish hand happiness Harry Words Harry Wordsworth head hear heard heart heroine hope induced indulge interrupted Italy knew Laceby Lady Matilda Lady Ormsby leave length live longer look Lord Orms Lord Ormsby Lord Wake Lord Wakefield manner marriage Mechlin ment mind misery monk morning mother Naples ness never Olinskis once Ormsby's pacquet Pæstum palazzo party passed passion Piazza di Spagna pleasure present racter ramble received recollection regret rendered reproach restored Rome Saint Peter's Santelmo seemed Simperton Sir James Sir James's situation society soon spects strange suffer Sydney tell thing thought tilda tion Turin uncon villa whilst wish woman
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Страница 258 - ... existence, and that he was thus utterly bereaved at once of every outward trace, of every living record, of his late guilty connexion. " After a time, he sought some relief to his feelings in active service in the cause of the Greeks; but even in the most eventful moments of his after-life, that would sometimes obtrude itself, which was never absent from his solitary pillow, — the image of his poor Matilda, as, heart-broken and repentant, he had seen her on the evening preceding the fatal catastrophe...
Страница 69 - ... indulgence of the softer feelings of her nature gave a matchless expression of tenderness to her angelic features. But as she bent her eyes towards him who occupied all her thoughts, and met his adoring gaze, she felt suddenly struck with the change which his recent severe illness had made in his fine manly beauty ; and it recalled her mind from the calm enjoyment of the present moment, and enforced the recollection, of how much of their late re-union they had owed to sickness and to suffering,...
Страница 256 - ... done ! — Oh that instead — a being so sad and lonely as myself had been fated to leave them behind me !" There were moments during the remainder of the evening when Matilda's eye shone so brilliantly, and her voice sounded so sweetly, that Ormsby and Mrs. Sydney almost indulged a hope that she might be spared to them; but the medical man conceived it his duty at once to check such vain and fruitless expectation. He solemnly assured them that she could hardly live through the night, and that...
Страница 69 - The simple attire to which, as hest suited to a statuary's classical taste she had confined her morning's toilet, was peculiarly calculated to invest her perfect form with an almost aerial grace ; whilst the tranquil indulgence of the softer feelings of her nature gave a matchless expression of tenderness to her angelic features. But as she bent her eyes towards him who occupied all her thoughts, and met his adoring gaze, she felt suddenly struck with the change which his recent severe illness had...
Страница 254 - Oh, that I had never left you for one moment ! — how could any. thing persuade me to tear myself one instant away from my only treasure ?" ' " Say not so- — Do not now repine, my love — I trust that good has come out of this evil — Ormsby, I feel that I am more fit to die — nay, start not. — Had I basked ever in the sunshine of thy presence, many sad and salutary reflections had been withered and lost. Then think of the dear Emily — her wellmerited happiness is cheaply purchased even...
Страница 253 - Dearest Lady Matilda," interrupted her friend, " do not -give way to these agitating anticipations of death. I know there is no cause for alarm. But Lord Ormsby you will see, and that soon." ' "He's here — he's alive — he is not lost — I read it in your eyes. — Ormsby, my love — Oh, my God, let me live to see him again !" cried Matilda, as, exhausted by the effort, she sunk fainting on the pillow. ' It was in Ormsby's arms that she was restored to consciousness ; it was from his trembling...