The Prima-Donna, a Tale of To-day [and Other Tales. By Richard Bechard.]Edward Bull, 1828 - 320 páginas |
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Abbé admiration affection appeared approaching arrived Baron battle of Culloden beautiful beheld blood bosom breast breath cause cavern character Charles Edward charms chidden colour Counsellor countenance danger dear death delight desperate diate Donna door dread Earl endeavoured excitement exclaimed eyes father favour favourite fear feelings felt female flashed fortune gaze gentleman girl Glengary glowing grace Hamilton hand happiness head heard heart Heaven Henrietta honour hope horrors household deity imagination imme individual insult knew La Rosignuola Leipzig libertine Linden lips looked Lord louis d'or man-the Manse Marian Gordon melancholy mind misery nature never night object offer once party passion person Prima Donna Prince racter Rainbow rank remained rendered Rosignuola rough colli round Roy Stewart Royalists scene seemed seized she-the smile soul spirit Steinfort Stewart stranger suffered tears theatre thought tion uncon unfortunate uttered voice whole wild woman wretch
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Página 9 - The very first Of human life must spring from woman's breast. Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Página 23 - ... property his father died possessed of ;* in exclusion of the whole of his sisters, who perhaps are cast adrift on the world, while he may be still in his cradle. The circumstances from which this law originated, perhaps rendered it at that time a wise and useful one. The time of its commencement, was in the earlier ages of civilization, when the possession of property incurred with it a duty, of serving personally in the wars, and assisting the military strength of the country. The proprietor...
Página 315 - Critic. DE LISLE ; or, The Sensitive Man. In 2 vols. 12mo. " Tins is unquestionably one of the best novels of the class to which it belongs."— London Times. u U presents a richer abundance of circumstances and sentiments than we can readily recall in any recent writer — equalling the author of De Vere in the latter, and excelling him infinitely in the former." — Monthly Magazint. " It is a novel of the most extraordinary fertility ; it is, in truth, the book of matrimony."— Mlos.
Página 316 - It consists of a tale, founded either on legendary lore, tradition, or historical fact, for every monarch's reign, from William the Conqueror to Charles the First, inclusive. It necessarily follows that there is great variety, both of interest and character. The early monkish superstitions are succeeded by stern chivalry : and chivalry yields in turn to the gradual alteration of national manners, as we descend the stream of time to the latest period. Mr. Neele has bestowed great pains upon his many...
Página 24 - ... and at his death, if he leave a heir, she only receives a partial benefit, by being entitled to her dower, which she would be were there no heir. Now though the woman is deprived of every liberty, and every dominion of property, by her marriage, does she acquire any thing by it ? We answer, — none whatever. For those restrictions that are put upon her are not to her advantage. A wife, though she gives every shilling to her husband, cannot take one from him. The pittance she has gained by "the...
Página 316 - ... there ; A sottish husband, and a slattern wife, Waged in my paradise perpetual strife ; And cradle-music, dear domestic sound ! With kindred lays, profaned the sainted ground. Even thus the Thespian Circe's outward guise Of happiness, her secret mood belies. Though laughing loves around her light lip play, A ravening vulture eats her heart away ; Her sunny glance irradiates every breast, But one, to her more near than all the rest...
Página 317 - History, to comprise tales founded on facts, and illustrative of the Romantic Annals of France from the reign of Charlemagne to that of Louis XIV. inclusive.
Página 25 - ... which even the cold, calculating head of the financier, and the hollow-heartedness of the libertine, will allow as fragrant. What recompence has the father bestowed on him for the wilful seduction of his child ? What punishment can the unhappy wretch herself call down on the head of her debauchee ? The father must first of all bring his child into a court of justice as his servant, prove her having committed menial offices ; and the daughter, to obtain justice, must be placed in the witness-box,...
Página 275 - I'll to her. Yet she shall not know me ; she shall drink of my wealth, as beggars do of running water, freely, yet never know from what fountain's head it flows. Shall a silly bird pick her own breast to nourish her young ones...
Página 23 - ... balancing their individual lives, and considering the man the most worthy, and his loss the greatest and most irreparable to society. If a man should take it into his head to kill his wife, it is thought no more of than were he to kill a stranger. But, on the other hand, were the wife to sacrifice the husband to her passions, the crime would be looked upon as so much more heinous, that she would be visited with the severest punishment the law can inflict, the same as if she had murdered the king...