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Page 40 - the tender humility with which she declined to assert it, had been amongst the fascinations of her presence. It was upon a Sunday evening, if such conjectures can be trusted, that the spark of fatal fire fell upon that train of predispositions to a brain complaint which had hitherto slumbered within her. She had been
Page 191 - and the British, west, Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians, north, Beyond Danubius to the Taurie pool." "With this superb picture, or abstraction of the Roman pomps and power, when ascending to their utmost altitude, confront the following representative
Page 191 - and occasionally, in the streets of Windsor, the sudden disappearance of all hats from all heads had admonished me that some royal personage or other was then traversing (or, if not traversing, was crossAnd utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, — Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia.
Page 154 - for the last time alluding to it: " Sir," he said, " I told you before that I would make you repent it." CHAPTER IV. THE FEMALE INFIDEL. AT the time of my father's death, I was nearly seven years old. In the next four years, during which we continued to live at Greenhay, nothing
Page 230 - through the mazes of an intricate dance under a full volume of music, taken with all the circumstantial adjuncts of such a scene in rich men's halls ; the blaze of lights and jewels, the life, the motion, the sealike undulation of heads, the interweaving of the figures, the
Page 106 - truth is, that, for anxiety and distress of mind, the reality (which almost every morning's light brought round) was as nothing in comparison of that dream kingdom which rose like a vapor from my own brain, and which apparently by the fat of my will could be
Page 189 - crown and sceptre should come out of the a young person in a first situation of this nature, through his frequent admissions to the royal presence. For my own part, I was as yet a stranger even to the king's person. I had, indeed, seen most or all the princesses in the way I furnace
Page 198 - mean, by which it is forbidden to address a question to the king. I was well aware, before I saw him, that in the royal presence, like the dead soldier in Lucan, whom the mighty necromancing witch tortures back into a momentary life, I must have no voice except for answers: —