The Recluse of Norway, Том 1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814
 

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Страница 101 - God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffetted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Страница 201 - How continually in retirement, and in the world, is the lesson of submission forced upon woman ! To suffer, and be silent under suffering, seems the great command she has to obey, while man is allowed to wrestle with calamity, and to conquer or die in the struggle.
Страница 240 - How can you say such things ? " cried Sybil, drawing back indignantly, " you who can be so kind and good when you choose ! I won't listen ; you can't make me doubt him ; only he himself could do that, and he never will. Why are you so bitter against my poor Ronald ? " " When you have lived as long in the world as I have, my dear, you may be as suspicious of everything men say that sounds disinterested and noble, as I am. But I won't say another word. Mr. Ronald Campion may be everything that is high-minded...
Страница 3 - HPHE long line of coast which forms one boundary to the kingdom of Norway, is broken into shapes of picturesque wildness. In some parts, its black and perpendicular rocks present a gigantic wall that has defied the storms of ages; while in others, the ocean, penetrating far inland, forms interior seas, amongst forests tenanted by wild beasts alone, and mountains whose heads are covered with eternal snows.
Страница 1 - March qf the present year ; and pitched upon Norway as the principal scene of its action, merely because it was ground untrodden by other novel-writers.
Страница 49 - Beauty ! genius ! fascination ! what is your honour when compared with that of goodness ? We struggle against you all, but we yield, without resistance, to the chann of an amiable heart ! After the dance, various little games, songs, stories, succeeded.
Страница 117 - ... hung every tree and shrub with brilliant festoons, sometimes blazed with the meridian sun, sometimes reflected the tender moon-light, or was successively illuminated and darkened by the flash and retreat of the aurora borealis.
Страница 146 - The fair-haired girls of Aardal excited in his breast only such a sort of kindness as we feel for children...
Страница viii - Wherever public characters are introduced, or political events alluded to, I have been faithful to the generally-received authorities : for it is, and has always been my principle, never to violate historical truth.
Страница 146 - What honour ! what kindness ! Let the Christian go there, to embrace his true brethren.

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