The mysterious marriage; or, The will of my father

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Page 161 - THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain, "Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene!
Page 173 - The clear, blue, cloudless sky, the polished white buildings, the bright sandy beach, and the dark green sea, present a combination totally new to the eye of an Englishman, just arrived from London...
Page 115 - While we are in this ftate of being, we muft encounter difficulties and ftruggle with uneafinefs. The heart will often be difl'atisfied we know not why, and reafon will ftand an idle fpectator, as if unconfcious of its power.
Page 76 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Page 68 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Page 205 - Rodwell (whose talents, not only in this line, but in music and the drama, have made him popular in all), is the author of this tale, laid to an old date when old pastimes were in vogue. The capital engraving of the Bridge and houses upon it, as in ancient times, is alone sufficient to make a volume welcome.
Page 200 - The work before us abounds with interesting situations, and is rich in those subjects to which the author seems now chiefly to devote his attention, in the depicting of ancient manners, and bringing out the character of his personages with all the quaint and graphic touches of antiquity.
Page 203 - As ancient history is greedily devoured, so will the numbers of ' Old London Bridge* meet with public patronage from time to time, like the life and times of some old warrior.
Page 198 - By Mrs. Southworth. Fancy boards, Price Is. 6d. Price 2s., fancy boards. OTHER TIMES ; OB, THE MONKS OF LEADENHALL. By the Author of "The Lollards," &c., &c. " The plot is good. We laud the ingenuity with which excellent descriptions, both graphical and moral, are introduced. A pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas & Becket at Canterbury is admirable, and there is a striking account of the insurrection in the North, against the suppression of monasteries. Novel-readers will find
Page 148 - When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes, Still on the ground dejected, darting all Their humid beams into the blooming flowers : Or when the mournful tale her mother told, Of what her faithless fortune promis'd once, Thrill'd in her thought, they, like the dewy star Of evening, shone in tears.

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