Littell's Living Age, Volume 23Living Age Company Incorporated, 1849 |
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Page 69
... countess ' pale cheek flushed with the glow of responsive sentiments . " Ah ! " she murmured , " we should have Polish schools . " " Ay - native schools - native schools - that were our right — those the only places where our children ...
... countess ' pale cheek flushed with the glow of responsive sentiments . " Ah ! " she murmured , " we should have Polish schools . " " Ay - native schools - native schools - that were our right — those the only places where our children ...
Page 70
... countess still bore in her elegant form and interesting coun- tenance traces of great personal charms , and her whole air and manner had that aristocratic grace peculiar to the women of her nation ; but more winning than the stamps of ...
... countess still bore in her elegant form and interesting coun- tenance traces of great personal charms , and her whole air and manner had that aristocratic grace peculiar to the women of her nation ; but more winning than the stamps of ...
Page 71
... countess and Seraphinka considered an impertinence that had not , for some years past , been able to extend deserved chastisement , caused an expressive glance her walks beyond its limits , it had been kept in to pass between them ...
... countess and Seraphinka considered an impertinence that had not , for some years past , been able to extend deserved chastisement , caused an expressive glance her walks beyond its limits , it had been kept in to pass between them ...
Page 72
... countess herself . Now do , my little lord , and such a handsome lord , too , as you are - it's a prince you ought to be , not a count , with that face and that air - do , now , let me but just feel that soft velvet ! " Leon drew ...
... countess herself . Now do , my little lord , and such a handsome lord , too , as you are - it's a prince you ought to be , not a count , with that face and that air - do , now , let me but just feel that soft velvet ! " Leon drew ...
Page 73
... countess was resting in her own apartment , where she wished to remain undisturbed until the count should return . " But why do you look so pale , Leon ? " she asked . " Oh ! Seraphinka , " he exclaimed , bursting into tears ...
... countess was resting in her own apartment , where she wished to remain undisturbed until the count should return . " But why do you look so pale , Leon ? " she asked . " Oh ! Seraphinka , " he exclaimed , bursting into tears ...
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...