Max Wentworth, 第 1 巻

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Saunders and Otley, 1839

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73 ページ - No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was still as she could be, Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.
205 ページ - And face all tann'd with scorching sunny ray, As he had travell'd many a summer's day Through boiling sands of Araby and Ind; And in his hand a Jacob's staff, 11 to stay His weary limbs upon; and eke behind His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind.
111 ページ - Come prankling o'er the place. But (trust me, gentles !) never yet Was dight a masquing half so neat, Or half so rich before ; The country lent the sweet perfumes, The sea the pearl, the sky the plumes, The town its silken store.
131 ページ - ... upbraided, to be discerned in the feelings which detained him by her side during the remainder of the evening, and incited him to rival even Tresham himself in his successful efforts to second the liveliness and animation which had not long before been the objects of his reprehension. CHAPTER X. " A dreary place, I ween, it was, And mournful to behold ; Above — the winds did doleful blow, Below — dark waters rolled.
39 ページ - Only one word, Walsingham," said his mother, rising and following him with an anxious countenance to the window, whither he had retreated. "Do ndt be angry, if I am needlessly solicitous concerning one, whose strong mind has ever kept him free from boyish susceptibilities. You have this morning, however, uttered sentiments new to me, as coming from you, and wherein I cannot but trace some new influence at work.
206 ページ - ... in her carriage, the drive could scarcely prove less than pleasant. These sanguine expectations appeared likely to meet with some disappointment, when, leaving the banks of the river, and the cool shade of the woods, the road they were destined to pursue continued to lie for many miles across bare and treeless commons, where the sole objects presenting themselves to the sight, were the rude huts and machines of the mining stations, and the stone enclosures, bordering the road in the few spots...
144 ページ - ... her almost as a delusion, the doctor made his appearance again, and after a tiptoe visit to his patient's room, assured the two girls that he was sleeping quite naturally, and he thought would be himself in a day or two. " May I sit up with him to-night ? " asked Rose, with breathless eagerness. " I think it would be the most delightful thing in the world to sit up with Uncle Archie.
141 ページ - Lindesay smiled again ; for such, had they been acknowledged, would have appeared his own thoughts, at that moment, with regard to his companion. He was wrong, notwithstanding ; since the change, in fact, lay not in herself, but in his perception of her character ; and it was the frailty of his man's nature that caused the graces which had almost given him umbrage, when displayed in a ball-room, in the frank...

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