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... recollected the Marquis for a particular friend in Paris , who had often expressed a wish to see him at his paternal chateau . My uncle was an old traveller , one who knew well how to turn things to account . He revolved for a few ...
... recollected the Marquis for a particular friend in Paris , who had often expressed a wish to see him at his paternal chateau . My uncle was an old traveller , one who knew well how to turn things to account . He revolved for a few ...
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... recollected the report of the room being haunted ; but he was no believer in ghosts , so he pushed the door gently open and peeped in . Egad , gentlemen , there was a gambol carrying on within enough to have astonished St. Anthony ...
... recollected the report of the room being haunted ; but he was no believer in ghosts , so he pushed the door gently open and peeped in . Egad , gentlemen , there was a gambol carrying on within enough to have astonished St. Anthony ...
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... recollecting that the last person who had dwelt in that chamber was a famous juggler who had died of St. Vitus's dance , and had no doubt infected all the furniture . This set all things to rights , particularly when the THE BOLD ...
... recollecting that the last person who had dwelt in that chamber was a famous juggler who had died of St. Vitus's dance , and had no doubt infected all the furniture . This set all things to rights , particularly when the THE BOLD ...
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... recollect the horrors with which they fed my heated fancy during an eruption of Vesuvius . We were distant from that volcano , with mountains between us ; but its convulsive throes shook the solid foundations of nature . Earthquakes ...
... recollect the horrors with which they fed my heated fancy during an eruption of Vesuvius . We were distant from that volcano , with mountains between us ; but its convulsive throes shook the solid foundations of nature . Earthquakes ...
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... Recollect , that when you read of my crime I shall have atoned for it with my blood ! When the Baronet had finished , there was a universal desire expressed to see the painting of this frightful visage . After much entreaty the Baronet ...
... Recollect , that when you read of my crime I shall have atoned for it with my blood ! When the Baronet had finished , there was a universal desire expressed to see the painting of this frightful visage . After much entreaty the Baronet ...
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Página 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 230 - ... true sympathy; how few love us for ourselves; how few will befriend us in our misfortunes; then it is that we think of the mother we have lost. It is true I had always loved my mother, even in my most heedless days; but I felt how inconsiderate and ineffectual had been my love. My heart melted as I retraced the days of infancy, when I was led by a mother's hand, and rocked to sleep in a mother's arms, and was without care or sorrow. "O my mother!
Página 363 - Now I remember those old women's words, Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales, And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid...
Página xi - There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.