Canterbury Tales, المجلد 2

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Hurd and Houghton, 1865
 

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الصفحة 341 - See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards ; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend ; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot ! Ah friend ! to dazzle let the vain design ; To raise the thought and touch the heart be thine!
الصفحة 303 - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes flashed through locks of blackest shade, When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed : — And heroes fled the Sibyl's muttered call, Whose elfin prowess scaled the orchard wall.
الصفحة 30 - And turned her loose: yet still she came again. My careless days and my luxurious nights At length have wearied her, and now she's gone, Gone, gone, divorced for ever.
الصفحة 90 - LEE. pursued, had sunk towards the close of it into profound silence. The anxious eyes of Josephine, from the moment they lost sight of her husband, had been turned towards her son ; and, for the first time in her life, she felt her heart a prey to divided affections ; for, while the frantic wildness of Siegendorf almost irresistibly impelled her to follow him, she was yet alive to all the danger of leaving Conrad a prey to reflections hostile to every sentiment of filial duty or respect. The latter,...
الصفحة 55 - Count Siegendorf, in the most pointed terms, and such as bespoke him well acquainted with all that was passing at Cassel, at once renounced a son to whom it was evident no promise was sacred; "who had flattered his hopes only the more grossly to betray them ; who had sported with the name of his family again to disgrace it ; who was alive to no feeling of duty, no principle of honor ; and whom time and misfortune, far from reforming, had only taught duplicity.
الصفحة 166 - No more to learn or hide : I know no fear, And have within these very walls men who (Although you know them not) dare venture all things. You stand high with the state ; what passes here Will not excite her too great curiosity : Keep your own secret, keep a steady eye, Stir not, and...
الصفحة 165 - Listen to me !" he added, silencing the count with a savage and alarming tone : — " If your present condemnation of me be just, I have listened to you at least once too often ! — Remember who told me, when at M , that there were crimes rendered venial by the occasion : who painted the excesses of passion as the trespasses of humanity : who held the balance suspended before my eyes between the goods of fortune and those of...
الصفحة 89 - I am now in his. Are you certain that you are not so too? Who assures you he does not know you ? Who tells you that he has not lured you into his society, either to rid himself of you for ever, or to plunge you with your family into a dungeon...
الصفحة 90 - These are only the systems of my father," said he. continuing earnestly to gaze on her. " My mother thinks not with him ?" Josephine spoke not: there was an oppression at her heart that robbed her of the power. Conrad covered his face with his hand, and reclined it for a moment on her shoulder. ** Explain to me," said he, after a second pause.
الصفحة 73 - The last effort of the haron, on perceiving his situation, was to open the carriage door, and attempt to throw himself out. He had so far succeeded, that his rescue was accomplished with less difficulty than it otherwise would have been ; and though he was to all appearance lifeless, the assistance given by the strangers was not vain. Many peasants also now hastened in aid of the latter ; and, by their united efforts, not only Stralenheim, but his attendants and baggage were preserved from the stream....

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