The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale. In Three Volumes..T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1804 |
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... Ruin from Man is most conceal'd when near , And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow ! Is this the flight of fancy ? would it were ! Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings , but Himself , That hideous sight - a NAKED HUMAN HEART ! YOUNG ...
... Ruin from Man is most conceal'd when near , And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow ! Is this the flight of fancy ? would it were ! Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings , but Himself , That hideous sight - a NAKED HUMAN HEART ! YOUNG ...
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... ruin on thy house and thee ? " " UBALDO , " replied the Marchese , in a voice trembling between rage and apprehension , yet striving to appear composed and collected , it were folly , to waste these precious moments . in useless ...
... ruin on thy house and thee ? " " UBALDO , " replied the Marchese , in a voice trembling between rage and apprehension , yet striving to appear composed and collected , it were folly , to waste these precious moments . in useless ...
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... ruin , to honour and prosperity : thou , to whose insidious counsels I am indebted for all my sufferings , and for all my crimes ; the deluder of my youth , the betrayer of my peace , the subtle fiend sent by my envious fate , to blight ...
... ruin , to honour and prosperity : thou , to whose insidious counsels I am indebted for all my sufferings , and for all my crimes ; the deluder of my youth , the betrayer of my peace , the subtle fiend sent by my envious fate , to blight ...
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... ruin , and his own success . To have made an honourable tender of his hand to Eloise , lovely and amiable as she was , would have been absurd ! What ! the handsome , the noble , the admired di Albenza , deprive himself of liberty ...
... ruin , and his own success . To have made an honourable tender of his hand to Eloise , lovely and amiable as she was , would have been absurd ! What ! the handsome , the noble , the admired di Albenza , deprive himself of liberty ...
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... ; for , from his extravagant style of liv- ing , together with many expensive private pleasures , he soon considered the scanty pittance allowed for the support of her his perfidy had reduced to to misery and ruin , as a tax and a 68.
... ; for , from his extravagant style of liv- ing , together with many expensive private pleasures , he soon considered the scanty pittance allowed for the support of her his perfidy had reduced to to misery and ruin , as a tax and a 68.
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Abruzzo agita agony Albenza ance behold Bertoldo bosom breast castle chese child Claudine Cleance Corvino cottage countenance cried crimes curse danger dared death deprived despair door dreadful dungeon dying Eloise Eve of San exclaimed existence eyes fatal fatal beauty fatal secret fate Father Jerome fear feelings garment gazed Gradisca groan guilty Guiseppe hand happiness hastened heart Heaven honour hope horror hour induced infant innocence instantly inwardly Italy look Lord Lorenzo Louis de Volange Marchese di Morano Marquis de Volange marriage ment mind miseries misfortunes Moraldi mother murder Naples ness never night offspring once pangs parent Paulina peace poniard proved quired racter repentant replied revenge round ruin San Pietro secret seek Signiora small pox soon sorrow soul spirit sufferings tears tenderness thee thou thought tion treachery Ubal Ubaldo vengeance victim villain Viola virtuous wife witness woman wound wretched youth Zanotti
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Página 199 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 199 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels...
Página 166 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Página 166 - Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills.
Página 233 - Syphax, we must work in haste: Oh think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods. Oh ! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death...