 ... crossed under it. When she spoke of a soldier, it was in a style above her usual simplicity ; there was a sort of swell in her language, which sometimes a tear (for her age had not lost the privilege of tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her...  The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie - Page 232by Henry Mackenzie - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808
...tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors, but her reception... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808
...devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her de. portment ; a gentle shade only, like the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors ; but her reception... | |
 | English essays - 1823
...tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment;...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season. , She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors ; but her... | |
 | British essayists - 1823
...tears, made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors ; but her reception... | |
 | English essays - 1823
...tears, made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment ; a gentle shade only,like the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season.... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827
...tears) - made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment;...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors ; but her reception... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827
...tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment;...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors ; but her reception... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827
...tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still fewer visitors ; but her reception... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 320 pages
...tears) made still more eloquent. She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced thrui, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment;...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish the benignity of the season. She had few neighbours, and still (ewer visitors; but her reception... | |
 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1851
...mother of the hero of my tale. " She kept her sorrows, like the devotions that solaced them, sacred to herself. They threw nothing of gloom over her deportment...the fleckered clouds of summer, that increase, not diminish, the benignity of the season." A loud knock or ring is an event which even the most accustomed... | |
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