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The death of his mother had been sensibly felt by Fernando , and with the most pious solicitude did he endeavour to soothe the sorrows of his remaining parent ; but the barbed arrow had sunk too deep for the hand of filial piety to ...
The death of his mother had been sensibly felt by Fernando , and with the most pious solicitude did he endeavour to soothe the sorrows of his remaining parent ; but the barbed arrow had sunk too deep for the hand of filial piety to ...
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The behaviour of Stephano , notwith- standing his father's remonstrances , and his mother's intreaties , had always been severe and haughty to their domestics ; in particular , a venerable old man , whose whole life had been spent in ...
The behaviour of Stephano , notwith- standing his father's remonstrances , and his mother's intreaties , had always been severe and haughty to their domestics ; in particular , a venerable old man , whose whole life had been spent in ...
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Bitter was the grief of the unhappy wife , but she bore her afflic tion in silence , D'Rosonio omitted no consolation in his power to offer , and Montalva behaved with outward affec- tion and respect to his endowed mother , but the ...
Bitter was the grief of the unhappy wife , but she bore her afflic tion in silence , D'Rosonio omitted no consolation in his power to offer , and Montalva behaved with outward affec- tion and respect to his endowed mother , but the ...
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4 " When my child was about fifteen , it pleased heaven to deprive me of her mother ; this was the severest blow I had ever met with ; and but for Alberti- na , I should have sunk under it : she was indeed an angel of consolation ...
4 " When my child was about fifteen , it pleased heaven to deprive me of her mother ; this was the severest blow I had ever met with ; and but for Alberti- na , I should have sunk under it : she was indeed an angel of consolation ...
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Soon after his return , his cousin Martina Di Soranzo , made a temporary retreat from the world , in consequence of the loss of her mother ; she took up her abode for some time with the nuns of St. Cathe- rine ; and Di Soranzo often ...
Soon after his return , his cousin Martina Di Soranzo , made a temporary retreat from the world , in consequence of the loss of her mother ; she took up her abode for some time with the nuns of St. Cathe- rine ; and Di Soranzo often ...
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Page 102 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
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Page 96 - Mon. 22. — My brother and I set out for Bath, on a very extraordinary occasion. Some time since Mr. Smyth, a Clergyman, whose labours God had greatly blessed in the north of Ireland, brought his wife over to Bath, who had been for some time in a declining state of health. I desired him to preach every Sunday evening in our chapel, while he remained there. But as soon as I was gone, Mr.
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| Title | Montalva, or, Annals of guilt Montalva, or, Annals of guilt, Ann Mary Hamilton |
| Author | Ann Mary Hamilton |
| Published | 1811 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2006 |
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