Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3

Oh what was love made for, if ’tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame! I know not, I ask not, what guilt’s in thine heart, I but know I must l...

“I ran on till I had no longer breath or strength, (without perceiving that I was in a dark passage), till I was stopt by a door. In falling against it, I burst it open, and fou...

“The visits of the stranger were interrupted for some time, and when he returned, it seemed as if their purpose was no longer the same. He no longer attempted to corrupt her pri...

“Many days elapsed before the stranger revisited the isle. How he was occupied, or what feelings agitated him in the interval, it would be beyond human conjecture to discover. P...

“When I awoke, he was standing by my pallet. “Arise,” said he, “eat and drink, that thy strength may return unto thee.” He pointed to a small table as he spoke, which was covere...

He saw the eternal fire that keeps, In the unfathomable deeps, Its power for ever, and made a sign To the morning prince divine; Who came across the sulphurous flood, Obedient t...

“Seven mornings and evenings Immalee paced the sands of her lonely isle, without seeing the stranger. She had still his promise to console her, that they should meet in the worl...

“Isidora was so accustomed to the wild exclamations and (to her) unintelligible allusions of her mysterious lover, that she felt no unwonted alarm at his singular language, and...

“The sole and beautiful inmate of the isle, though disturbed at the appearance of her worshippers, soon recovered her tranquillity. She could not be conscious of fear, for nothi...

“I am convinced, that, had the passage been as long and intricate as any that ever an antiquarian pursued to discover the tomb of Cheops in the Pyramids, I would have rushed on...

Que donne le monde aux siens plus souvent, Echo _Vent_. Que dois-je vaincre ici, sans jamais relacher, Echo _la chair_. Qui fit le cause des maux, qui me sont survenus, Echo _Ve...