I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change,... The Quarterly Review - Page 3791818Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...of forgetfulness. But it was in vain: i slept indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams. 1 thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking...the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, nnd I thought that I held the corpse of ray dead mother in my arms; a shrowd enveloped her form, and... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I F2 embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave* worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, 1 embraced her; bai a» I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became...hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and 1 thought that I held the corpse of mv dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and 1 saw... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling io the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. — \ Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse _^ J of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, obert Chambers shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1888 - 328 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of deatli ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1891 - 348 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave- ' worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
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