The OmenBlackwood, 1825 - 160 Seiten |
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abroad affected alarmed answer appearance avenger awakened beautiful Beechendale began beheld bosom Bosville Bosville's calm carriage castle CHAP childhood church circum clouds countenance curiosity delicacy delight discovered doomed door dread dreams earnest END OF EPOCH endeavours enquired epicure Eton eyes fate father fear feelings felt fortune funeral genius gentle gentleman guilt Hamlet hand happened haps Harwich hath heard hearse heart heavens heraldry holydays hostler imagination impression inheritance knew lady lect looked manner manorial Maria ment moon morning mother mystery never Oakdale observed Oglethorpe OMEN oracles Ormond Oxford passed paused Purcel recollect remembrance rence replied retired reverie rose ruminating sadness saloon scene seen servants silence sion smile solemn soon sorrow sound speaking spectre spirit stances standing stood story suddenly Sydenham talisman tears things thought tions told trance trees turned undivulged venerable village vision voice walked wind Windsor wonder young
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Seite 147 - Lisbon, I saw on a marble slab, which the weather or accident had already partly defaced, the epitaph of Maria. The remainder of my own story is but a tissue of aimless and objectless wanderings and moody meditations...
Seite 12 - Why are we so averse to confess to one another, how much we in secret acknowledge to ourselves, that we believe the mind to be endowed with other faculties of perception than those of the corporeal senses ? We deride with worldly laughter the fine enthusiasm of the conscious spirit that gives heed and credence to the metaphorical intimations of prophetic reverie, and we condemn as superstition the faith which consults the omens and oracles of dreams ; and yet, who is it that has not in the inscrutable...
Seite 147 - I saw on a marble slab, which the weather or accident had already partly defaced, the epitaph of Maria. The remainder of my own story is but a tissue of aimless and objectless wanderings and moody meditations, under the anguish of the inherited curse. — But all will soon be over: — a tedious hectic that has long been consuming me, reluctantly and slowly, hath at last, within these few days, so augmented its fires, that I am conscious, from a sentiment within, I cannot survive another month; I...
Seite 31 - The old magnificence of the castle, a rude and vast pile, interested me for the two first days. " ' It stands on the verge of a precipice, which overshadows a smooth-flowing river. Masses of venerable trees surround it on the other three sides, from the midst of which huge towers, with their coronals of battlements, and clokes of...
Seite 31 - ... acquaintance with Sydenham, the natural son of a person of high rank, and goes down to his father's house with him to spend the holidays. Here occurs one of those touches of scenery and description, well drawn and not overcharged, which we consider as evincing the author's taste as well as his powers.
Seite 85 - I happened to look towards the wall which separated the lawn from the highway — a row of trees and shrubs screened its unsightly appearance, but here and there an opening disclosed a vista of the distant country, and in one of those openings...
Seite 20 - I was in the same house where, in infancy, 1 had witnessed such dismay and sorrow ; but all was dim and vague ; much of the record was faded, and its import could not be read. The talisman of memory was shattered, and but distorted lineament...