Marmaduke Wyvil; Or, The Maid's Revenge: An Historical RomanceH. Colburn, 1843 |
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Marmaduke Wyvil; Or, The Maid's Revenge: A Historical Romance Henry William Herbert Tampilan cuplikan - 1843 |
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Halaman 263 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Halaman 279 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Halaman 64 - Royalist to a more safe retreat than that which he now occupied; and after she was gone, though anxious and excited, he sat down to his books, not at the first without an effort; but after he had sat some time, he returned to his ordinary frame of mind, and read, and pondered, and made notes, until the period should arrive, apparently, and indeed really, as fully engrossed in his subject, as though no graver matter than the full force of the particle « had occupied his meditations.
Halaman 18 - ... natural sympathy with the oppressed, dictated. "With a quick step she left the fishing-house, and stood upon a little flight of steps which ran down a platform, level with the bridge to the stream's brink. And scarcely had she reached her stand, before the single horseman wheeled round the angle of the wood, and crossed the bridge at as fast a rate as his drooping steed could compass. The pursuers, scarcely five hundred yards behind him, were still beyond the woodland, which alone hindered them...
Halaman 58 - While he yet spoke, the light, as of a candle or a lamp in motion, flitted across the three tall casements to the right, and disappearing, the southern front of the old hall was left in absolute darkness. " Well ! there it does go of a surety," replied the puritan, "and there is one to watch on the west end.
Halaman 52 - It was not grief, however, nor even sorrow that had called forth so strange and passionate ^notions from that calm bosom; for the whole heart was full of deep and tranquil gratitude to Him by whose good providence the interesting stranger had been preserved from his bloodthirsty enemies — much less was it all joy, for though there was a sense of happiness, or of relief, at least, from terrible anxiety, springing up from the depths of her pure soul, yet there was nothing strong or passionate, nothing...
Halaman 54 - Excitement, sach as this, must end in its revulsion; and it was fortunate that there was cause enough apparent, to have disturbed the equilibrium of her mind, in the events which had transpired in the full sight of all — so that the outbreak of hysterical passion called forth no more alarm, than a mere fit of feminine terror, in the assiduous attendants who crowded round their beloved mistress, with all the remedies of essences, strong waters, and the like their ignorant but kindly zeal could dictate....
Halaman 16 - ... were aware of the importance of his trust. But at that very moment a dull flat report, as of a distant gun-shot, broke the silence; and the dog pricked his pendulous ears, and stalked with a low growl to the doorway; while the lady turned her head quickly toward the window whence she had just withdrawn. Her first glance was toward the road; and, where it crossed the hill-top, she saw clearly the head of a man, and then his whole figure, with his horse, rise rapidly against the brilliant gleam...
Halaman 66 - When the lamp was extinguished in the library, and the hand-taper cast its flickering light, as witnessed by the wakeful Puritans, across the lattices of the less frequented apartments, the old man had, indeed, retired to his chamber, and when there, had at once cast himself into a huge arm-chair, where he reclined for many minutes absorbed in the deepest mental meditation. After a while he started up, and for a moment it was...
Halaman 65 - I position. Had he not been indeed fully aware of the necessity of being tranquil, it had not, perhaps, been within his power so calmly to have followed his accustomed studies. Had he not been a student, it would, perhaps, bare frustrated hit utmost coolness so to hare 'waited the event.