Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful ...Hurst, Robinson, 1825 - 356 من الصفحات |
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Agatha agony appeared arms ascended Asgard Balder balls beautiful beheld beloved Bertram bosom Brando Brandomann brother Brunilda calm Catherine cave Courtenay dared dark dead death demon Denmark destiny earth Eisenac enemy entreated Eustace eyes fate father fear Fenris forest gave gazed glory gnome grief Haldane hand happy Haquin Harold hastened head heard heart heaven honour hope horror husband Ildegarda island king Frotho king of Denmark knew listened looked lover Ludolph Maelstrom magic margrave Midgard monster morning mortal murderer night noble Odin Orange Tree palace poor presence prince princess ravens replied retired Rhys Rhys Meredith Ruth Tudor scissors Scythians Serimnor shrieked silent skulls and bones sleep Sleipner smile son of Odin sorcerer sorrow spirit spoke sprung stood Surter Tecklenburgh tender terrible thee thing thou art thought threw throne Thuringia trembling Valhalla voice warrior wept wild William wretched Yellow Dwarf
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الصفحة 167 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
الصفحة 28 - Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit ? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.
الصفحة 44 - ... were more powerfully renewed ; again he heard the solemn psalm of death, but unsung by mortals — it was pealed through earth up to the high heaven, by myriads of the viewless and the mighty : again he heard the execrations of millions for some unremembered sin, and the wrath and the hatred of a world was rushing upon him :
الصفحة 21 - But Rhys knew too well the value of the metal of sin to yield one half of it to Ruth ; he tried many miserable shifts and lies, and at last, baffled by the calm penetration of his antagonist, boldly avowed his intention of keeping all the spoil he had won with so much hazard. Ruth looked at him with...
الصفحة 2 - But, though rank and its polished distinctions were strange in the village of N , the superiority of talent was felt and acknowledged almost without a pause or a murmur. There was one who was as a king amongst them, by the mere force of a mightier spirit than those with whom he sojourned had been accustomed to feel among them...
الصفحة 128 - Black spirits and white, Blue spirits and grey, Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may.
الصفحة 37 - Harassed by creditors, he was pained by their demands, and his selfishness was unable to endure the sufferings of his wife and children. Instead of exertion, he had recourse to flight, and left us to face the difficulties from which he shrunk. He was absent for years, while his family toiled and struggled with success. Suddenly we heard that he was concealed in this part of the coast ; the cause which made that concealment necessary I forbear to mention ; but he...
الصفحة 37 - Through the fissures of one I discovered, in the interior, a light. Surprised, I penetrated to its concealment, and discovered a man sleeping on the ground. I advanced to awake him, and found but a fleshless skeleton, cased in tattered and decaying garments. He had probably met his death...
الصفحة 7 - ... she had known how horrid it was to be alone. Abhorring the prophet, she yet clung to his footsteps, and while she sat by his side, felt as if he alone could avert that evil destiny which he alone had foreseen. With him only was she seen to smile ; elsewhere, sad, silent, stern ; it seemed as if she were ever occupied in nerving her mind for that which she had to do, and her beauty, already of the majestic cast, grew absolutely awful, as her perfect features assumed an expression which might have...
الصفحة 7 - ... death. But there were moments when her naturally strong spirit, not yet wholly subdued, struggled against her conviction, and endeavoured to find modes of averting her fate : it was in one of these, perhaps, that she gave her hand to a wooer, from a distant part of the country, a sailor, who either had not heard, or did not regard the prediction of Rhys, upon condition that he should remove her far from her native village to the home of his family and friends...