The highland castle, and the lowland cottage, Band 2 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection affectionate agony amiable anxiety anxious appearance arms attention aunt Janet baronet beheld beloved bosom Bouverie brother captain Frazer Castle Frazer chamber Charles Frazer CHARLOTTE SMITH cheek cheer child companion couch countenance Court of Session dear death delight domestic Edinburgh Emily Frazer endeavoured entreated eyes Fairy Cottage favourite feelings Ferguson Fogo girl Glen Glencross Cottage grief guson hand happiness heart Helen hope hour husband infant invalid Inverness John Deans joined lady Frazer ladyship lips little William lord William Frazer M'Gregor mansion Marion Mary melancholy ment midshipman mind morning mourned nephew painful parents parlour pleasure present pressed proceeded racter remained rendered replied repose request retired rion Robert scene servant silence sion sir Simon Frazer sister smile sorrow spect spirits suffering sunk sweet tears ther thought tion tron uncle watch wife William Glen wish worthy advocate young friend youth
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Seite 61 - Nae langer she wept^— her tears were a' spent,— Despair it was come, and she thought it content; She thought it content, but her cheek it grew pale, And she droop'd, like a lily broke down by the hail.
Seite 94 - your turf, your flowers among,' I wove your blue-bells into garlands wild, And woke your echoes with my artless song. Ah! hills beloved! — your turf, your flowers remain; But can they peace to this sad breast restore, For one poor moment soothe the sense of pain, And teach a breaking heart to throb no more? And you, Aruna! — in the vale below...
Seite 2 - dust to dust" the mourner cries. O from thy kindred early torn, And to thy grave untimely borne, Vanished for ever from my view, Thou sister of my soul, adieu ! Fair with my first ideas twined, Thine image oft will meet my mind ; And, while remembrance brings thee near, Affection sad will drop a tear. How oft does sorrow bend the...
Seite 130 - Death's black and stormy gulph you brave, And ride exulting on the wave; Deem thrones but trifles all ! — no more — Nor send one wishful look to shore. For foreign ports and lands unknown, Thus the firm sailor leaves his own ; Obedient to the rising gale, Unmoors his bark, and spreads his sail ; Defies the ocean, and the wind, Nor mourns the joys he leaves behind.
Seite 2 - A clod amid the valley lies, And "dust to dust" the mourner cries. O from thy kindred early torn, And to thy grave untimely borne ! Vanish'd for ever from my view, Thou sister of my soul, adieu ! Fair with my first ideas...
Seite 75 - Of friends expected, or returning love. The pensive wanderer bless'd, to whom reflection Points out some future views that soothe his mind; Me how unlike! — whom cruel recollection But tells of comfort I shall never find! Hope, that on Nature's youth is still attending, No more to me her syren song shall sing; Never to me her influence extending, Shall I again enjoy the days of Spring! Yet, how I loved them once these scenes remind me, When light of heart, in childhood's thoughtless mirth, I reck'd...
Seite 21 - ... and general concern. Dr. Delany's next publication was not till 1748, and that was only a sixpenny pamphlet. It was entitled " An Essay towards evidencing the divine original of Tythes," and had at first been drawn up, and probably preached as a sermon. The text, rather a singular one, was the tenth commandment, which forbids us to covet any thing that is our neighbour's ; and it required some ingenuity to deduce the divine original of tithes from that particular prohibition.
Seite 193 - Hermes the virtues as it gives them birth, Exalting and ennobling every aim, Making, hy kindly glow, two souls the same.
Seite 197 - ... forget that we were not twin-born, the offspring of the same parents?