Works, Volume 2J. G. Gregory, 1864 |
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Page 59
... Donna Florinda will thank you still more , for your opinions are so like her own , that I sometimes admire at the secret means , by which experience enables the wise and the good to think so much alike , on a matter of so THE BRAVO . 59.
... Donna Florinda will thank you still more , for your opinions are so like her own , that I sometimes admire at the secret means , by which experience enables the wise and the good to think so much alike , on a matter of so THE BRAVO . 59.
Page 60
... Donna Florinda is not yet past the age when the heart is finally subdued , and there is still so much to bind her to the world , she will assure thee of this truth , or I greatly mistake the excellence of that mind , which hath ...
... Donna Florinda is not yet past the age when the heart is finally subdued , and there is still so much to bind her to the world , she will assure thee of this truth , or I greatly mistake the excellence of that mind , which hath ...
Page 63
... Donna Florinda . " But if I am to remember him in my prayers , Father , it might enlighten my petition to know in what the young noble is most wanting . " " I would have thee remember his spiritual neces- sities only . He wanteth , of a ...
... Donna Florinda . " But if I am to remember him in my prayers , Father , it might enlighten my petition to know in what the young noble is most wanting . " " I would have thee remember his spiritual neces- sities only . He wanteth , of a ...
Page 65
... Donna Violetta was silent , while the monk and Donna Florinda both regarded her with affectionate concern . The former then adjusted his cowl , ana prepared to depart . The noble maiden approached the Carmelite , and looking into his ...
... Donna Violetta was silent , while the monk and Donna Florinda both regarded her with affectionate concern . The former then adjusted his cowl , ana prepared to depart . The noble maiden approached the Carmelite , and looking into his ...
Page 66
... Donna Florinda permitted the silk , on which her needle had been busy , to fall into her lap , and she sat in meek silence , while the Carmelite raised his open palms towards her bended head . His lips moved , but the words of ...
... Donna Florinda permitted the silk , on which her needle had been busy , to fall into her lap , and she sat in meek silence , while the Carmelite raised his open palms towards her bended head . His lips moved , but the words of ...
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Page viii - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Page 393 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Page 405 - LET us lift up the curtain, and observe What passes in that chamber. Now a sigh, And now a groan is heard. Then all is still. Twenty are sitting as in judgment there ; Men who have served their country, and grown...