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Common terms and phrasesApennines appeared arrived bandit banditti bosom brother brought character child circumstances Clou Cloudesley communication conduct Corrado count Camaldoli countenance crime death desired desley Don Carlos earl Danvers earth effect England entered Eudocia eyes fallen fate father fear feelings felt Florence Francesco Gallotti hands heard heart honour house of Borromeo human creature innocent isle of Axholme Italian Italy journey Julian justice kingdom of Naples knew letter limbs lived looked lord Danvers manner marchese Tanucci ment Messina mind morning mountains Naples nature nephew never night observe Palermo party passed peril period person Pirithous possessed present prison proceeded protector purpose racter received rection rence rendered residence resolved robbers scarcely scene seemed Selina servant shew Sicily sight situation society soul spirit St Elmo stood straits of Messina stranger suffer Tagliacozzo Taranto thing thought tion told took visited ward whole young youth Popular passagesPage 227 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Page 93 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, And, pawing, seems to beat the distant plain : Hills, vales, and floods appear already cross'd, And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. See the bold youth strain up the threatening steep, Rush through the thickets, down the valleys sweep, Hang o'er their coursers' heads with eager speed, And... Page 201 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. Page 273 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured... Page 123 - She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time. Page 282 - ... passage to which we have just alluded, as a specimen of this overstrained and supererogatory style. — ' The condition in which he was now placed could not fail to have a memorable effect on the mind of Julian. Shut up in a solitary dungeon, without exercise or amusement, he had nothing upon which to occupy his thoughts but the image of his own situation. He had hitherto lived, particularly during the last twelve months, in a dream. He grieved most bitterly, most persistingly, for the death... Page 339 - Yes, the true system for governing the world, for fashioning the tender spirits of youth, for smoothing the pillow of age, is Love. Nothing else could have made a Cloudesley. Nothing else could have made a Julian. I and Lord Danvers have been the delinquents. He, for base and selfish ends — I, from an erroneous judgment. The one thing that most exalts and illustrates man, is disinterested affection. We are never so truly what... Page 285 - Cloudesley and Eudocia. To his own apprehension he was the favourite of fortune. All that he had read of tragic and disastrous in the annals of mankind seemed like a drama, prepared to make him wise by the sorrows of others, without costing him a particle of the bitter price of experience. All that he had encountered of displeasing was when he was the inmate of Borromeo ; and this, though felt by him as intolerable, he was aware had been planned in a spirit of kindness. How terrible, therefore, was... Page 286 - ... most beautiful scene that Paradise ever exhibited, for utter desolation and tremendous hurricane, that should tear up rocks from their foundations, and overwhelm the produce of the earth with rushing and uncontrollable waves, would feebly express the revolution that took place in his mind. He repented that he had ever again sought the society of these alluring but pernicious friends. Page 284 - But to the young it is a very different thing, particularly perhaps at twenty years of age. We are just come into the possession of all our faculties, and begin fully to be aware of our own independence. Every thing is new to us ; and the larger half at least of what is new, is also agreeable. Pleasure spreads before us all its allurements ; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its variegated visions ; and we are at a loss on... Bibliographic information
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