The Eve of San-Pietro: A Tale. In Three Volumes..T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1804 - Gothic fiction (Literary genre) |
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... sufferings , and for all my crimes ; the deluder of my youth , the betrayer of my peace , the subtle fiend sent by my envious fate , to blight my prospects , and to crush my hopes : yet , not content with these , thou now dost sum up ...
... sufferings , and for all my crimes ; the deluder of my youth , the betrayer of my peace , the subtle fiend sent by my envious fate , to blight my prospects , and to crush my hopes : yet , not content with these , thou now dost sum up ...
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... miseries , such unheard of sufferings , as only thou deservest ! Peruse those papers , " he continued , 4 they are not those you once saw ; they were the records of my hidden fate ; fate ; these will teach you to curse yours ! 14.
... miseries , such unheard of sufferings , as only thou deservest ! Peruse those papers , " he continued , 4 they are not those you once saw ; they were the records of my hidden fate ; fate ; these will teach you to curse yours ! 14.
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... sufferings of the unhappy de Cleance ; for , after re- turning from a solitary evening's walk , where the beauty of the weather had tempted him to ramble farther than was his wonted custom , he received a poniard at his heart ; and ere ...
... sufferings of the unhappy de Cleance ; for , after re- turning from a solitary evening's walk , where the beauty of the weather had tempted him to ramble farther than was his wonted custom , he received a poniard at his heart ; and ere ...
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... had acquired every instructive lesson , save that of conquering those feelings , and acquiring that penetration , to the want of which he had owed all his own ca- lamities lamities and sufferings . Deprived by a dreadful accident of 38.
... had acquired every instructive lesson , save that of conquering those feelings , and acquiring that penetration , to the want of which he had owed all his own ca- lamities lamities and sufferings . Deprived by a dreadful accident of 38.
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... Moraldi , yet bereft and wretched when he did not appear , she became at length the suitor , and besought him to fulfil those vows he he had so long and so fervently pro- tested . 39 lamities and sufferings. Deprived by a ...
... Moraldi , yet bereft and wretched when he did not appear , she became at length the suitor , and besought him to fulfil those vows he he had so long and so fervently pro- tested . 39 lamities and sufferings. Deprived by a ...
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Abruzzo agita agony Albenza ance behold Bertoldo bosom breast castle chese child Claudine Cleance Corvino cottage countenance cried crimes curse danger dared death deprived despair door dreadful dungeon dying Eloise Eve of San exclaimed existence eyes fatal fatal beauty fatal secret fate Father Jerome fear feelings garment gazed Gradisca groan guilty Guiseppe hand happiness hastened heart Heaven honour hope horror hour induced infant innocence instantly inwardly Italy look Lord Lorenzo Louis de Volange Marchese di Morano Marquis de Volange marriage ment mind miseries misfortunes Moraldi mother murder Naples ness never night offspring once pangs parent Paulina peace poniard proved quired racter repentant replied revenge round ruin San Pietro secret seek Signiora small pox soon sorrow soul spirit sufferings tears tenderness thee thou thought tion treachery Ubal Ubaldo vengeance victim villain Viola virtuous wife witness woman wound wretched youth Zanotti
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Page 199 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 199 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels...
Page 166 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 166 - Unmark'd ; — see, from behind her secret stand, The sly informer minutes every fault, And her dread diary with horror fills.
Page 233 - Syphax, we must work in haste: Oh think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods. Oh ! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death...