Woman: Or Ida of Athens, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 290 pages |
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Achmet Acropolis affection agony amidst animated archondessa ardent arms arose athenian Athens awakened band of patriots beheld beneath betrayed bosom cadi caloyer casement cause character choly citadel countenance cried danger daring daughter dear death Demosthenes diako disdar disdar-aga dreadful earth emotion endeavoured existence eyes faint faintly fate father fears feelings felicity fell felt fluence genius Greece greeks grotto guard happiness harem heaven hope horror Ida's immolation imprudent influence insensible inspire insupportable janissary kiosk Kyra laws of Turkey lifeless ligion Limbona Livadia Lycurgus melan ment mind mingled misery moorish nature ness night object oppose Osmyn pang paramana passion paused prejudices pride racter replied repose ruins rushed sacred secret seized sense sensibility sentiment sentinel shades slave sought soul spahis spirit Stephaniki stranger subdue suffering superior sweet tears tender terrific thou timid tion tranquil trembled turk turkish uncon virtue voice weakness woman worthy wretched
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Page 65 - ... views, on which their virtues, rather than their prudence speculated. By this act, Osmyn had left himself almost destitute ; but little remained of a sum found in the casket of the caloyer monk ; but that little was sufficient for one whose wants were as moderate as his spirit was insatiable. By this act, he had also fixed himself so deeply in the confidence of the young conspirators, that uniting their sense of his disinterested liberality to their consciousness of his superiority in the use...
Page 191 - We hope to deliver, from the hands of the cruel Mahomedans, our empire, which they have usurped ; our patriarchate, and our holy religion, which they have profaned ; to rescue' the descendants of Athens, and of Lacedemon, from the tyrannic yoke of ignorant barbarians, under which a nation, whose genius is not extinguished, still groans — a people, glowing with the love of liberty, whom the iron chains of barbarism have not degraded — who have .constantly before their eyes the images of their...
Page 119 - ... that season, which evinces the omnipotence of a prejudice over -those minds to whom truth and nature are strangers; when the dogma of a puerile superstition holds in subjection the influence of climate, of habit, and of inclination ; when nature herself stands checked ! when the passions, the wants incidental to the state of man, are shackled and restrained, and when all imposes a universal abstinence, which all observe from every natural pleasure, or -rational enjoyment. Such is the influence...
Page 119 - ... nature herself stands checked ! when the passions, the wants incidental to the state of man, are shackled and restrained, and when all imposes a universal abstinence, which all observe from every natural pleasure, or rational enjoyment. Such is the. influence of a bigoted faith on a people, who, with the exception of their term of annual fast, are, of all nations, the most devoted to the mere pleasures of sense...
Page 159 - She trembled again to hazard her peace by surrendering her very existence into the possession of another. She felt she was not calculated for the indulgence of a moderate sentiment ; and she blushed to acknowledge, even to herself, the full capability of tenderness, which lay secretly stored within her heart. It was thus that the englishman found her involved in all the bashful diffidence of a simple and inexperienced recluse — trembling for herself — fearing for others — systematically suppressing...