Woman: Or Ida of Athens, Volume 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 290 pages |
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Page 11
... , and the Paramana and the child- ren , less sensible of the dangers they had escaped , than of the existing im- pressions they received , gazed around them with humid eyes , while they started at the IDA OF ATHENS . 11.
... , and the Paramana and the child- ren , less sensible of the dangers they had escaped , than of the existing im- pressions they received , gazed around them with humid eyes , while they started at the IDA OF ATHENS . 11.
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... less surprize than evi- dent mortification ; " Osmyn , the pa- triot , " returned Ida , warmly ; " the chance of a moment only discovered him to my view ; oh my father , he sav- ed your life he preserved mine , and the lives of these ...
... less surprize than evi- dent mortification ; " Osmyn , the pa- triot , " returned Ida , warmly ; " the chance of a moment only discovered him to my view ; oh my father , he sav- ed your life he preserved mine , and the lives of these ...
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... less animated than those their ardent characters were ca- pable of betraying , brought to their recollection a lively sense of their own friendless and desolate state ; and of their eternal separation from their own dear and much ...
... less animated than those their ardent characters were ca- pable of betraying , brought to their recollection a lively sense of their own friendless and desolate state ; and of their eternal separation from their own dear and much ...
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... less from the circumstance than a woman who united to an equal delicacy of feel- ing a more profound experience of the world would have done . And though she blushed when she compared the enormous amount of the bill , with the contents ...
... less from the circumstance than a woman who united to an equal delicacy of feel- ing a more profound experience of the world would have done . And though she blushed when she compared the enormous amount of the bill , with the contents ...
Page 71
... ; and Ida having seen that beloved and help- less family comfortably settled in a neat and charming retreat , and left what money she then possessed , with the woman to whom the house belonged for the purpose of IDA OF ATHENS . 71.
... ; and Ida having seen that beloved and help- less family comfortably settled in a neat and charming retreat , and left what money she then possessed , with the woman to whom the house belonged for the purpose of IDA OF ATHENS . 71.
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admiration affections affliction amidst amulet amuse ANNA MARIA PORTER anxiety archon ardent arms athenian Athens awakened beauty beheld beloved bestow betrayed blended boards bosom breathed brothers caloyer character charm conduct confidence dervise diamond cross Edition Egaleos emotion endeavoured England esteem existence eyes faint fancy father feelings felicity felt foolscap 8vo gave gaze genius greek hand happiness hope human Hymettus Ida's imagination impa influence inspired interest Ismenus Janissary Jumeli knew Kyra letter Livadia lived Lord manner ment mind of Ida mingled misery monk nature object observed once opulence Osmyn Paramana passion Pentelicus person prejudice Price 11 pride racter repose returned ROBERT SOUTHEY rude scene sense sensibility sentiment sigh sion Smyrna society sought soul Stephaniki suffering talents taste tears tender THADDEUS of WARSAW thought timid tion trembling triumph Turkish virtue vols WALTER SCOTT wept woman wretched
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