Sir Francis Darrell; or, The vortex, Volumes 1-2

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Page 93 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 20 - O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works ! creature, in whom excell'd Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
Page 236 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies : She drew an angel down.
Page 35 - tis better to be much abus'd, Than but to know'ta little. lago. How now, my lord ? Oth. What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust ? I saw it not, thought it not, it harm'd not me : I slept the next night well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
Page 24 - Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane;" and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! If this which he avouches does appear, There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. I gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o
Page 234 - ... for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose, For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind. But he was...
Page 3 - But she has the same red-hot head, the same noble disdain cf public opinion . . ." far above the sensual level in his affairs. His opinion of women was not high. "I regard them as a very beautiful but inferior animal," he told Dallas. "I think them as much out of their place at our tables as they would be in our senates." Physical satisfaction, plus the normal male need for reassurance, was what he sought for and for the most part received. Doubtless the soul-hunger of Tristan for Isolde has been...
Page 241 - Da un sol tuo sguardo altero, Da un sol tuo detto umano Io mi difendo in vano, Sia sprezzo o sia favor. Fuor che il tuo dolce impero Altro destin non hanno. Che secondar non sanno I moti del mio cor. Ogni piacer mi spiace Se grato a te non sono; Ciò che non è tuo dono Contento mio non è. Tutto con te mi piace, Sia colle, o selva, o prato; Tutto è soggiorno ingrato Lungi, ben mio, da te.
Page 288 - ... was not equally well pleased with them ; it was a rudeness she could not forgive to one, whose every action was ruled by kindness, and even the open brow of Seraphina became clouded, till honourable amends were made to her mother, a mother she esteemed not less highly, than she tenderly loved her. END OF THE SECOND vOLUME. Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode, Printers- Street, London.

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