Sir Rohan's Ghost: A RomanceJ. E. Tilton, 1860 - 352 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... head and elastic step ; nor was he conscious how steadily he gazed before him , turning neither to right nor left , lest the accursed object should meet his eyes , nor how unequal the quick beatings of his heart made the chant he hummed ...
... head and elastic step ; nor was he conscious how steadily he gazed before him , turning neither to right nor left , lest the accursed object should meet his eyes , nor how unequal the quick beatings of his heart made the chant he hummed ...
Pàgina 28
... head crowned with its royal braid , the face with its sunshine and beauty , the whole vignette , recede and fade away to somberest mist , leaving nothing but the bars growing more and more distant , while gigantic notes of light started ...
... head crowned with its royal braid , the face with its sunshine and beauty , the whole vignette , recede and fade away to somberest mist , leaving nothing but the bars growing more and more distant , while gigantic notes of light started ...
Pàgina 41
... head . Sir Rohan recovered himself , concluding that the supernatural was not an agent in this appa- rition . It was a tune common enough in Kent , -he had first heard it there ; she was probably a Kentish girl , too charming a piece of ...
... head . Sir Rohan recovered himself , concluding that the supernatural was not an agent in this appa- rition . It was a tune common enough in Kent , -he had first heard it there ; she was probably a Kentish girl , too charming a piece of ...
Pàgina 45
... head , surveyed her host with quick displeasure , motions which did not escape Sir Rohan . " I am at a loss as to what title " he be- gan , turning to St. Denys , who interrupted him , saying , as he laid his hand caressingly upon her ...
... head , surveyed her host with quick displeasure , motions which did not escape Sir Rohan . " I am at a loss as to what title " he be- gan , turning to St. Denys , who interrupted him , saying , as he laid his hand caressingly upon her ...
Pàgina 48
... head against the cushions of the chair , and , dropping the lids from her first gaze that crept across the woods , then up the distant fields to the lawn below , and finally rested on the smooth cheek , she slept the deep sleep of a ...
... head against the cushions of the chair , and , dropping the lids from her first gaze that crept across the woods , then up the distant fields to the lawn below , and finally rested on the smooth cheek , she slept the deep sleep of a ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Previsualització no disponible - 2019 |
Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance (Classic Reprint) Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
asked beauty Belvidere beneath Benshee blossom bosom breath cheek child clavichord cloud color Cornwall coruscations Côte d'Or cried danced dark Denys door drawing-room dream dropped epiphyte exclaimed eyes face Fanchon fancy fell felt fingers flash flowers gaze Ghost glance golden band Guinever hair hand happy head heard heart instant JOSEPH ALDEN Kent knew lady laugh leave light lips looked Marc Arundel ment Miss Miriam moon morning NEHEMIAH ADAMS never night once pale papa passed paused perhaps Pharo Price purple Redruth replied returned ring ROMAN QUESTION rose round seemed shade shadow silence Sir Rohan Sisera sleep slowly smile soon sorrow sparkling steatite stone stood suddenly sunshine sweet thing thought tion tossed turned Tyntagel Uther Pendragon voice walked wild wind wine wonder words youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 29 - Mo9a tan fermosa non vi en la frontera, como una vaquera de la Finojosa. Faziendo la vía del Calatraveño a Santa María, vencido del sueño, por tierra fragosa perdí la carrera, do vi la vaquera de la Finojosa.
Pàgina 59 - Choose us out men, and go ' out, fight with Amalek : to-morrow I will stand on the ' top of the hill with the rod of GOD in mine hand.
Pàgina 346 - Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Pàgina 4 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Pàgina 346 - So fashioned a porch with rare device, Archt over head with an embracing vine, Whose bounches hanging downe seemd to entice All passers-by to taste their lushious wine, And did themselves into their hands incline, As freely offering to be gathered ; Some deepe empurpled as the hyacine, Some as the rubine laughing sweetely red, Some like faire emeraudes, not yet well ripened : LV.
Pàgina 7 - ... où va la possibilité. Si l'on entendoit bien la différence qu'il ya entre l'impossible et l'inusité, et entre ce qui est contre l'ordre du cours de nature et contre la commune opinion des hommes, en ne croyant pas témérairement, ny aussi ne descroyant pas facilement, on observeroit la règle de Rien trop, commandée par Chilon.
Pàgina 26 - But the sea, it fell a-moaning, And the white gulls rocked thereon; And the young moon dropped from heaven, And the lights hid one by one. All silently their glances Slipped down the cruel sea, And wait ! cried the night and wind and storm,— Wait, till I come to thee!
Pàgina 346 - Withall she laughed, and she blusht withall, That blushing to her laughter gave more grace, And laughter to her blushing, as did fall. Now when they...
Pàgina 27 - I sung, my true love! Come hasten home to me! But the sea, it fell a-moaning, And the white gulls rocked thereon; And the young moon dropped from heaven, And the lights hid one by one. All silently their glances Slipped down the cruel...