Category: Historical Novels
Pur' e soave cosa, a chi del tutto Non e privo di senso, il patrio nido: Che die Natura al nascimento umano, Verso il caro paese, ov' altri e nato, Un non so che di non inteso affetto, Che sempre vive, e non invecchia mai.
Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind, I see thy glory, like a shooting star, Fall to the base earth from the firmament. Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, Witnessing st...
6. CHAPTER VI.Many of the villagers of Trevethlan were desirous of celebrating the return of their young master by some kind of holiday. They remembered how in the old time there were several...
9. CHAPTER IX.Quand on est honnete homme, ou ne veut rien devoir A ce que des parens ont sur nous du pouvoir. On repugne a se faire immoler ce qu'on aime, Et l'on veut n'obtenir un coeur que...
4. CHAPTER IV.Madron church-town, the mother of the thriving port of Penzance, is a small irregular hamlet, situated on an eminence overlooking its well-grown offspring, and the salt marshes...
7. CHAPTER VII."Whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event-- A thought, which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts cowa...
12. CHAPTER XII._Elinor_. Your strong possession, much more than your right; Or else it must go wrong with you, and me: So much my conscience whispers in your ear, Which none but Heaven, and yo...
5. CHAPTER V.Light lie the earth upon the shades of those, Flowers deck their graves, Spring dwell with their repose, Of old who deemed the teacher should supply The parent's holy rule, hear...
11. CHAPTER XI.Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run...
2. CHAPTER II.The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest...
8. CHAPTER VIII."Era gia l'ora che volge 'l disio A' naviganti, e'ntenerisce il cuore, Lo di ch'han detto a' dolci amici addio, E che lo nuovo peregrin d' amore Punge, se ode squilla di lontano...
1. CHAPTER I.Pur' e soave cosa, a chi del tutto Non e privo di senso, il patrio nido: Che die Natura al nascimento umano, Verso il caro paese, ov' altri e nato, Un non so che di non inteso a...
15. CHAPTER XV.Late in the night, or early in the morning that followed the trial at Bodmin, any watcher at Trevethlan would be startled by the gallop of horses and the rattle of wheels, as th...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all; As the weird women promised; and I fear Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said, It should not stand in thy posterity; But...
3. CHAPTER III.The heart, surrendered to the ruling power Of some ungoverned passion every hour, Finds, by degrees, the truths that once bore sway And all their deep impression wear away: So c...
10. CHAPTER X.Here, a bold, artful, surly, savage race-- Who, only skilled to take the finny tribe, The yearly dinner, or septennial bribe, Wait on the shore, and as the waves run high, On th...