Demetrius: a Russian romance ...

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E.J. Coale, 1818

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Сторінка 135 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges that his tongue must vent; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Сторінка 212 - But when a great mind falls, The noble nature of man's generous heart Doth bear him up against the shame of ruin ; With gentle censure using but its faults As modest means to introduce his praise; For pity like a dewy twilight comes To close the oppressive splendour of his day, And they who but admired him in his height, His alter'd state lament, and love him fall'n.
Сторінка 5 - As newly wak'd from all my dreams of glory, Those gilded visions of deceitful joys, I stand confounded at the unlook'd-for change, And scarcely feel this thunderbolt of fate. The painted clouds, which bore my hopes aloft, Alas, are now vanish'd to yielding air, And I am fall'n indeed...
Сторінка 188 - OF A FOOL, CASTING FIREBRANDS, ARROWS AND DEATH. " The tempest falls, The weary winds sink breathless. But who knows What fiercer tempest yet may shake this night." THOMSON." THE Lady Clinton saw how' a false movement on her part might bring disgrace on her liege lord's fair fame. Her woman's wit perceived the ground of Vaughan's ill-advised attack upon the unoffending people of Sopus, and its consequences upon Sir Henry's mission. Vaughan would accomplish...
Сторінка 236 - M r as confined (1610) after his depofition, •and from whence he was conveyed into Poland; where he only exchanged one prifon for another ftill more difmal, and fell a victim to his own difappointment and chagrin, as well as to the ill-treatment of the Poles.
Сторінка 222 - Godunof managed this horrid tranfaction with fuch art and fecrecy, that fcarcely any fufpicions were entertained againfthim, until thirteen years afterwards a perfon made his appearance under the name of Demetrius : he declared that his mother, fufpicious of the attempts againft her...
Сторінка 237 - is an article of faith, I could not venture to publifh my real opinion in this country. But in perufing my account with attention, you will perceive that the arguments which I have advanced in favour...

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