 | Sophia Lee - 1804 - 312 pages
...correspondence with his ; and by this means alone' was I ignorant, for a time, of a calamity,which, when known, totally overwhelmed me : — alas, my...climax of grief and misfortune- was too mighty for my reason— I had passed from fear to fear, from sorrow to- sorrow, in such rapid succession, "that there... | |
 | Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - 2004 - 400 pages
...Mary. Ellinor signs — with the death warrant for her mother before her eyes; she does not know that "our sainted mother was led to execution, almost at the very moment I was defaming you and myself to save her" (II, 236). Ellinor's fearful midnight marriage increases... | |
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This climax of grief and misfortune was too mighty for my reason—I had passed from fear to fear, from sorrow to sorrow, in such rapid succession, that there were only intervals enough of time to render each more poignant. In one short month to behold... 