Wanderings of Childe Harolde: A Romance of Real Life : Interspersed with Memoirs of the English Wife, the Foreign Mistress, and Various Other Celebrated Characters, Volume 3Sherwood, Jones & Company, 1825 |
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... shewed them into a marble - paved hall , where wine and all sorts of refreshment were prepared for a numerous party . No person could have access to this abode , for the Governor locked several gates as they ascended , putting the key ...
... shewed them into a marble - paved hall , where wine and all sorts of refreshment were prepared for a numerous party . No person could have access to this abode , for the Governor locked several gates as they ascended , putting the key ...
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... shewed a contempt for death , which either arose from indifference as to his future existence , or a moral cer- tainty that he must exchange this being for a better . We will charitably suppose the latter , from the strong sense and en ...
... shewed a contempt for death , which either arose from indifference as to his future existence , or a moral cer- tainty that he must exchange this being for a better . We will charitably suppose the latter , from the strong sense and en ...
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... shewed him the accomplished gentleman . Harolde assured him that his habitation was sufficiently large to accommodate him and family with comfort , and insisted upon their removing to it without delay , urging the apparently weak health ...
... shewed him the accomplished gentleman . Harolde assured him that his habitation was sufficiently large to accommodate him and family with comfort , and insisted upon their removing to it without delay , urging the apparently weak health ...
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... shewed gratitude at last for all the good Harolde had done to him ; and when the latter found that he had offered to defend his honour with his life , he procured him the station of commandant at Ithaca , which the Colonel soon after ...
... shewed gratitude at last for all the good Harolde had done to him ; and when the latter found that he had offered to defend his honour with his life , he procured him the station of commandant at Ithaca , which the Colonel soon after ...
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... shewed to asso- ciate with Englishmen was great : he would not admit them within his doors , and in public he shunned them as basi- lisks . Every evening he had a levee in his box at the opera , where he charmed foreigners by the ...
... shewed to asso- ciate with Englishmen was great : he would not admit them within his doors , and in public he shunned them as basi- lisks . Every evening he had a levee in his box at the opera , where he charmed foreigners by the ...
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Page 222 - Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep these lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! with her to die...
Page 87 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 87 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Page 136 - When youthful Love, warm-blu.shing strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame "I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way. Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.
Page 161 - Hyenas in the wild, and mermaids on the shore ; Till, led by thee o'er many a cliff sublime, He found a warmer world, a milder clime, A home to rest, a shelter to defend, Peace and repose, a Briton and a friend...
Page 44 - And now, lash'd on by destiny severe, With horror fraught, the dreadful scene drew near! The ship hangs hovering on the verge of death, Hell yawns, rocks rise, and breakers roar beneath!— In vain, alas! the sacred shades of yore Would arm the mind with philosophic lore; In vain they'd teach us, at the latest breath, To smile serene amid the pangs of death.
Page 40 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, A.nd clap your padlock on the mind.
Page 188 - Seven Sermons." This book I read with the most thrilling interest. I fairly devoured its contents, and endeavored to find from it some gleam of hope — " Some beam of day to shine on me, To save me from despair;" and "as cold water to a thirsty soul, or good news from a far country," it proved a balm to my wounded spirit. Hope again sprung up in my heart, and I was comforted with the conviction that God would have mercy and abundantly pardon. One day my wife manifested great anxiety to have me go...
Page 217 - Chance awaked, inexorable power! This frail and feverish being of an hour, Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little...
Page 182 - IN joyous youth, what soul hath never known Thought, feeling, taste, harmonious to its own ? Who hath not paused while Beauty's pensive eye Ask'd from his heart the homage of a sigh ? Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name...