The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is... The Casket - Page 1571828Full view - About this book
| Robert Emmet - 1870 - 300 pages
...person who told me her story had seen her at the masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...told me her story had seen her at a xnai qnerade.1 There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedn.es more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. T find it wandering like a specter, lonely and joyless, where a] around is gay — to see it dressed... | |
| Rev. John Reid - Grief - 1875 - 406 pages
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed f out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat... | |
| E. Owens Blackburne - Ireland - 1877 - 384 pages
...person who told me her story had seen her at the masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetful ness of sorrow... | |
| Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey - 1877 - 368 pages
...person who told me her story had seen her at the masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay—to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking aud painful than to meet it in such' a scene; to find it wandering, like a specter, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay', to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth,... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 pages
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1880 - 444 pages
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...woe-begone as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor hear! into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow. Attei strolling through the splendid rooms and giddj... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...gay — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirfh, and looking so wan and wo-begone30, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into... | |
| Granville series - 1881 - 376 pages
...person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade.4 There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow. 9. After strolling through the splendid rooms and giddy crowd with an air of utter abstraction, she... | |
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