The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. An account of the expedition against CarthagenaS. Doig & A. Stirling, 1811 |
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Página 224 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Página 96 - Ferdinand sounded the beldame with a thousand artful interrogations, and she answered with such an appearance of truth and simplicity, that he concluded his person was quite secure ; and, after having been regaled with a dish of eggs and bacon, desired she would conduct him into the chamber where she proposed he should take his repose. He was accordingly ushered up by a sort of ladder into an apartment furnished with a standing bed, and almost half filled with trusses of straw. He seemed extremely...
Página 42 - He had formerly imagined, but was now fully persuaded, that the sons of men preyed upon one another, and such was the end and condition of their being. Among the principal figures of life, he observed few or no characters that did not bear a strong analogy to the savage tyrants of the wood.
Página 98 - Accustomed as she was to the trade of blood, Uie hoary hag did not behold this apparition without giving signs of infinite terror and astonishment, believing it was no other than the spirit of her second guest, who had been murdered; she fell upon her knees, and began to recommend herself to the protection of the saints, crossing herself with as much devotion as if she had been entitled to the particular care and attention of Heaven. Nor did her anxiety abate when...
Página 378 - Bb2 sense of surprise and attention : reason shrunk before thfc thronging ideas of his fancy, which represented this music as the prelude to something strange and supernatural ; and while he waited for the sequel, the place was suddenly illuminated, and each surrounding object brought under the cognizance of his eye.
Página 378 - ... and of hearing: he had mechanically raised himself upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards; and in this attitude he gazed with a look, through which his soul seemed eager to escape. To his view, thus strained upon vacant space, in a few minutes appeared the figure of a woman arrayed in white, with a veil that covered her face, and flowed down upon her back and shoulders...
Página 326 - I have abused the confidence and generosity of my patron ; I have defrauded his family, under the mask of sincerity and attachment; I have taken the most cruel and base advantages of virtue in distress ; I have seduced unsuspecting innocence to ruin and despair ; I have violated the most sacred trust reposed in me by my friend and benefactor ; I have betrayed his love, torn his noble heart asunder, by means of the most perfidious slander and false insinuations ; and, finally, brought to an untimely...
Página 280 - Perfidious wretch ! thy crimes turn out so atrocious, that I half repent me of having undertaken to record thy me»moirs ; yet such monsters ought to be exhibited to public view, that mankind may be upon their guard against imposture; that the world may see how fraud is apt to overshoot itself ; and that as virtue, though it may suffer for a while, will triumph in the end, so iniquity, though...
Página 95 - ... through some devious opening, until he should be delivered from the forest. For this purpose he turned his horse's head in a line quite contrary to the direction of the high road which he had left, on the...