The Romance of Beauseincourt: An Episode Extracted from the Retrospect of Miriam MonfortG.W. Carleton & Company, 1867 - 456 Seiten |
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arms asked Bainrothe bear Beauseincourt beautiful believe Bellevue Bertie better blood Bonville brow cantelope Captain Wentworth child Colonel Lavigne Cousin Celia daughters dear Doctor Durand door doubt dream eyes face fancy father fear feel Felicité felt Finistere gallery girl glance grave Gregory hair hand happy head heard heart honor hope Huguenot incubus Jura knew lady laughing Lavigne's Lesdernier lips looked Louey Lurlie Madame Lavigne Madge Maginnis Major Favrand Marcelline Marion Masta matter Mauriceville mind Miriam Monfort Miss Harz Miss Mirime mother murmured mystery nature never night noblesse oblige occasion once Ossian pause perhaps poor rejoined remember replied Savannah seemed shadow silence sleep smile soul speak stood strange suddenly suffered suppose sure Sylphy tears tell thing thought tion truth turned Vernon voice Walter Lavigne whispered woman words wretch young
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Seite 287 - I smile, And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Seite 73 - Again she saw that bosom old, Again she felt that bosom cold, And drew in her breath with a hissing sound...
Seite 34 - NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a " fiery heart " : These notes of thine, they pierce and pierce ; Tumultuous harmony and fierce ! Thou sing'st as if the God of wine Had helped thee to a Valentine ; A song in mockery and despite Of shades, and dews, and silent night ; And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves.
Seite 216 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Seite 287 - What other angel seek I ? To this heart, To this unerring heart, will I submit it, Will ask thy love, which has the power to bless The happy man alone, averted ever From the disquieted and...
Seite 275 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Seite 34 - NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart : These notes of thine — they pierce and pierce ; Tumultuous harmony and fierce ! Thou sing'st as if the god of wine Had helped thee to a valentine : A song in mockery and despite Of shades, and dews, and silent night, And steady bliss, and all the loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves, I heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale this very day, His voice was buried among trees.
Seite 287 - O ! he stood beside me, like my youth, Transformed for me the real to a dream, Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The beautiful is vanished — and returns not.
Seite 356 - ... the building of the tower of Babel and the confusion of tongues...
Seite 369 - My teeth in darkness till returning morn, Then cursed myself till sunset ; — I have pray'd For madness as a blessing — 'tis denied me. I have affronted death — but in the war Of elements the waters shrunk from me, And fatal things pass'd harmless...