Prose Works, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1888 |
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... hope was almost dead within his breast . Again he listened - again the same noise was repeated : it was but a violent thunderstorm which shook the elements above . Convinced of the folly of hope , he addressed a prayer to his Creator ...
... hope was almost dead within his breast . Again he listened - again the same noise was repeated : it was but a violent thunderstorm which shook the elements above . Convinced of the folly of hope , he addressed a prayer to his Creator ...
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... hope of life in Verezzi's bosom . A cold tremor pervaded his limbs -his eyes but faintly presented to his imagination the ruined cavern - he sank , as far as the chains which encircled his waist would permit him , upon the flinty ...
... hope of life in Verezzi's bosom . A cold tremor pervaded his limbs -his eyes but faintly presented to his imagination the ruined cavern - he sank , as far as the chains which encircled his waist would permit him , upon the flinty ...
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... hope , for three days was Matilda's mind in a state of dis- turbance and fluctuation . The evening of the third day , of the day on which Ferdinand was to return , arrived . Matilda's mind , wound up to the extreme of impatience , was ...
... hope , for three days was Matilda's mind in a state of dis- turbance and fluctuation . The evening of the third day , of the day on which Ferdinand was to return , arrived . Matilda's mind , wound up to the extreme of impatience , was ...
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... hope rendered futile ? " ex- claimed the frantic Matilda , as , wound up to the highest pitch of desperation , she attempted to plunge herself into the river . But life fled ; for Matilda , caught by a stranger's arm , was prevented ...
... hope rendered futile ? " ex- claimed the frantic Matilda , as , wound up to the highest pitch of desperation , she attempted to plunge herself into the river . But life fled ; for Matilda , caught by a stranger's arm , was prevented ...
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... hope or despair from the physician . He , who was a man of sense , declared his opinion , that Verezzi would speedily recover , though he knew not the event which might take place in the crisis of the disorder , which now rapidly ...
... hope or despair from the physician . He , who was a man of sense , declared his opinion , that Verezzi would speedily recover , though he knew not the event which might take place in the crisis of the disorder , which now rapidly ...
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Page 308 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Page 300 - Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side ? let him come unto me.
Page 300 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 304 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Page 45 - Art thou afear'd To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire ? Would'st thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem; Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 252 - Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Page 425 - It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive or, fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
Page 388 - He proposes that you should come and go shares with him and me, in a periodical work, to be conducted here ; in which each of the contracting parties should publish all their original compositions, and share the profits.
Page 300 - And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Page 414 - Clifford, to the vain and insulting accident of wealth and reputation, and the babbling of a miserable old woman, and yet have proceeded unshrinking to her nuptial feast from the expostulations of Mandeville's impassioned and pathetic madness ? It might be well in the author to show the foundations of human hope thus overthrown, for his picture might otherwise have been illumined with one gleam of light. It was his skill to enforce the moral, "that all things are vanity," and " that the house of...