The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry, Volume 1G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795 |
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Page 73
... young fancy , ftruck with the grandeur of the objects around , gradually yielded to delightful impreffions . The road now de- fcended into glens , confined by ftupendous walls of rock , grey and barren , except where fhrubs fringed ...
... young fancy , ftruck with the grandeur of the objects around , gradually yielded to delightful impreffions . The road now de- fcended into glens , confined by ftupendous walls of rock , grey and barren , except where fhrubs fringed ...
Page 82
... young man fpring from the bushes into the road , followed by a couple of dogs . The ftranger was in a hunter's drefs . His gun was flung across . 1 his shoulders , the hunter's horn hung from his his ( 82 ) a fort of chant, one of the ...
... young man fpring from the bushes into the road , followed by a couple of dogs . The ftranger was in a hunter's drefs . His gun was flung across . 1 his shoulders , the hunter's horn hung from his his ( 82 ) a fort of chant, one of the ...
Page 87
... perceptible enough . Emily turned from fuch fcenes , and looked at her father with anxious tenderness , which the young ftranger seemed to obferve ; for , drawing drawing St. Aubert afide , he made him an offer ( 87 )
... perceptible enough . Emily turned from fuch fcenes , and looked at her father with anxious tenderness , which the young ftranger seemed to obferve ; for , drawing drawing St. Aubert afide , he made him an offer ( 87 )
Page 88
... young stranger would take no denial . " Do not give me the pain of knowing , fir , " faid he , " that an invalid , like you , lies on hard skins , while I fleep in a bed . Befides , fir , your refufal wounds my pride ; I must believe ...
... young stranger would take no denial . " Do not give me the pain of knowing , fir , " faid he , " that an invalid , like you , lies on hard skins , while I fleep in a bed . Befides , fir , your refufal wounds my pride ; I must believe ...
Page 94
... young ftranger on foot , for he refufed the invita- tion of St. Aubert to take a feat in his little carriage . The road wound along the feet of the mountains through a pastoral valley , bright with verdure , and varied with groves of ...
... young ftranger on foot , for he refufed the invita- tion of St. Aubert to take a feat in his little carriage . The road wound along the feet of the mountains through a pastoral valley , bright with verdure , and varied with groves of ...
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Page 71 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven...
Page 149 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 8 - ... those green recesses which so beautifully adorn the bosom of these mountains ; where, under the shade of the lofty larch or cedar, they enjoyed their simple repast, made sweeter by the waters of the cool stream that crept along the turf, and by the breath of wild flowers and aromatic plants that fringed the rocks and inlaid the grass.
Page 113 - ... deep that the thunder of the torrent which was seen to foam along the bottom was scarcely heard to murmur. Over these crags rose others of stupendous height and fantastic shape ; some shooting into cones ; others impending far over their base, in huge masses of granite, along whose broken ridges...
Page 212 - ... in a state of peace, not of tumult : it is of a temperate and uniform nature, and can no more exist in a heart that is continually alive to minute circumstances, than in one that is dead to feeling.
Page 74 - ... and, while the muleteer led his animals slowly over the broken ground, the travellers had leisure to linger amid these solitudes, and to indulge the sublime reflections, which soften while they elevate the heart, and fill it with the certainty of a present God ! Still the enjoyment of St.
Page 79 - The scene of barrenness was here and there interrupted by the spreading branches of the larch and cedar, which threw their gloom over the cliff, or athwart the torrent that rolled in the vale.
Page 375 - Hand embodied to our fenfes plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilft in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vaft aflembly moving to and fro; Then all at once in air diflblves the wondrous mow.
Page 95 - ... colours, till the golden light darted over all the air, touched the lower points of the mountain's brow, and glanced in long sloping beams upon the valley and its stream. All nature seemed to have awakened from death into life. The spirit of St. Aubert was renovated. His heart was full ; he wept : and his thoughts ascended to the Great Creator.
Page 15 - A well-informed mind, he would say, is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking ; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.