 The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is...  The Casket - Pàgina 1571828Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1820 - 856 pàgines
...querade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it m such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre,...where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in die trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pàgines
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pàgines
...person who told me her "story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 402 pàgines
...seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far- gone wretchedness more striking and t painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pàgines
...person who told me her story, had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed ont in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 pàgines
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pàgines
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 180 pàgines
...person, who told me her story, had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetf'ulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pàgines
...The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-be-gone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pàgines
...a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchelness more striking and painful thanKi meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering' like...joyless, where all around is gay— to see it dressed following lines : " Sheis far from the laud wlnre her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are... | |
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