Category: Novels
The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music, and Music Sellers, that MR. JAMES POWER, of the Strand, Music Seller, is the only person authorized by them to publish the SONGS or VERSES in this Work connected with Music.
In vain I tried to follow;—the aisles were already filled, and numbers of eager pilgrims pressed towards the portal. But the servants of the Temple prevented all further entranc...
11. Part 11Hour after hour, with the same eager and desultory curiosity, did I turn over the leaves;—and when, at length, I lay down to rest, my fancy was still haunted by the impressions...
2. Part 2We were soon landed on the quay; and, as I walked, through a line of palaces and shrines, up the street which leads from the sea to the Gate of Canopus, fresh as I was from the...
9. Part 9Her heart, it was plain, had been disturbed from its security, and was beginning to take alarm at its own feelings. But, though vaguely conscious of the peril to which she was e...
10. Part 10“Let this volume,” I replied, “answer for the peacefulness of my mission,”—at the same time, placing in his hands the copy of the Scriptures, which had been his own gift to the...
5. Part 5Nor was this disappointment the only feeling that occupied me;—the imprudence of the step, which I had taken, now appeared in its full extent before my eyes. I had thrown myself...
7. Part 7It was one of the widest parts of the river; and the whole surface, from one bank to the other, was covered with boats. Along the banks of a green island, in the middle of the s...
4. Part 4A new hope now flashed across me. The dream of the Garden, which had been for some time almost forgotten, returned to my mind. “Am I then,” I exclaimed, “in the path to the prom...
12. Part 12Though, in the presence of Alethe, my fears, even for herself, were forgotten in that perpetual element of happiness, which encircled her like the air that she breathed, no soon...
8. Part 8“Music, as being one of the chief spells of this enchanted region, was an accomplishment required of all its ministrants; and the harp, the lyre, and the sacred flute, sounded n...
6. Part 6With surprise, however, and—for a moment—with disappointment, I perceived, that the massy corner of the Veil was but raised sufficiently to allow a female figure to emerge from...
1. Part 1The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music, and Music Sellers, that MR. JAMES POWER, of the Strand, Music Seller, is the only person authorized by them to publish the S...
13. Part 13Page 49.—“_There__ is, to the north of Memphis_,” _&c._—“Tout prouve que la territoire de Sakkarah étoit la Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le faubourg opposé à celui‐ci, où so...
14. Part 14Page 268.—“_All are of the dust_,” _&c._—While Voltaire, Volney, &c. refer to the Ecclesiastes, as abounding with tenets of materialism and Epicurism, Mr. Des Voeux and others f...