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Page 67
... beauties of Nature and exertions of Art . they would partake of a refreshment , while the soft Sicilian harmony from the musicians who were placed in a re- tired glen floated on the air , and seemed like the effect of enchantment ...
... beauties of Nature and exertions of Art . they would partake of a refreshment , while the soft Sicilian harmony from the musicians who were placed in a re- tired glen floated on the air , and seemed like the effect of enchantment ...
Page 122
... is she is not quite so enchanting as the lovely fe- male I beheld in the pavillion yet her beauties interest me , and the flames of love arise in my breast The The monk now started at beholding the nun unlock the 122.
... is she is not quite so enchanting as the lovely fe- male I beheld in the pavillion yet her beauties interest me , and the flames of love arise in my breast The The monk now started at beholding the nun unlock the 122.
Page 128
... Agatha raising her supplicating eyes to his countenance , read there that he not only forgave , but that the beauties of her person had ex- cited his admiration . The The terror which had agitated her by degrees subsided , 128.
... Agatha raising her supplicating eyes to his countenance , read there that he not only forgave , but that the beauties of her person had ex- cited his admiration . The The terror which had agitated her by degrees subsided , 128.
Page 139
... beauties had interested him , and he saw that could he by any means liberate her , that there was little doubt but that he should be amply repaid for the danger he might en- counter . After After the service was concluded he left the ...
... beauties had interested him , and he saw that could he by any means liberate her , that there was little doubt but that he should be amply repaid for the danger he might en- counter . After After the service was concluded he left the ...
Page 158
... beauties . A silence ensued , but it was a silence which expressed the sentiments of Aga- tha , and the unspeakable sensations of Ferdinando , who at length interupt- ed it by declarations of the tenderest . attachment to that lovely ...
... beauties . A silence ensued , but it was a silence which expressed the sentiments of Aga- tha , and the unspeakable sensations of Ferdinando , who at length interupt- ed it by declarations of the tenderest . attachment to that lovely ...
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The Demon of Sicily - A Romance, in Four Volumes - Vol. II, Volume 2 Edward Montague No preview available - 2010 |
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Page 141 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house of her fathers.