The Household of Bouverie: Or, the Elixir of Gold, Volumen1Derby & Jackson, 1860 Set in Kentucky, the novel tells of a scientist, Erastus Bouverie, who, subject to fits of jealousy, torments his wife, using strange chemical processes to damage those he hates. |
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... possessed , lying at the bottom of such an imper- fectly developed nature . I have seen the creature lean on his spade , with his lips parted and his gooseberry eyes stretched to their utmost limits , gaping rather than gazing with ...
... possessed , lying at the bottom of such an imper- fectly developed nature . I have seen the creature lean on his spade , with his lips parted and his gooseberry eyes stretched to their utmost limits , gaping rather than gazing with ...
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... possessed outside of her own household , and had been her spiritual guide from childhood ; and , in temporal affairs , had assumed a father's place toward her on various trying occasions . He was , at the period of our first ...
... possessed outside of her own household , and had been her spiritual guide from childhood ; and , in temporal affairs , had assumed a father's place toward her on various trying occasions . He was , at the period of our first ...
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... possessed my confidence and respect , and even affection ; but for my grandmother I had reserved the full cup of my devotion , linked with the sentiment of filial love , more potent than any other in my peculiar organization , and which ...
... possessed my confidence and respect , and even affection ; but for my grandmother I had reserved the full cup of my devotion , linked with the sentiment of filial love , more potent than any other in my peculiar organization , and which ...
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... possessed for me an unusual charm . I might even urge the precedents of female curiosity , from Eve to Fatima , in extenuation of the determined spirit of investigation that possessed me . But I scorn to seek my apology either in ...
... possessed for me an unusual charm . I might even urge the precedents of female curiosity , from Eve to Fatima , in extenuation of the determined spirit of investigation that possessed me . But I scorn to seek my apology either in ...
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... possessing that hideous quality - the sin that wrecked the human race ! Be good enough to explain , why you appro- priated the observation ? " 66 " Oh , grandmother ! " and I bowed my face in my hands , ' Lilian , " she went on ...
... possessing that hideous quality - the sin that wrecked the human race ! Be good enough to explain , why you appro- priated the observation ? " 66 " Oh , grandmother ! " and I bowed my face in my hands , ' Lilian , " she went on ...
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affection Alchemy amused asked bear beautiful believe better Bianca Bishop Clare blood called chamber child clasped cold Colonel de Courcy dark dear death Doctor Quintil door dream dress Erastus Everard eyes Fabius face father feeling felt forever gaze grand grandfather grandmother grandmother's half hand happy head heard heart hope HOUSEHOLD OF BOUVERIE Jasper JOANNA BAILLIE knew laughed light lips looked Lord Torrington lyre Madame matter Merodach Miss Lilian MOSS-SIDE mother murmured mystery nature never night once pain passed passion Pat McCormick patient peculiar perhaps pict poor possess presence Quintilian reply rest rose seemed shadow silent silent agitation smile sorrow soul speak spirit spoke stood strange sweet Taunton Tower tears tell tender thee things THOMAS HOOD thought thousand guineas tion tortoise truth turned Violet Fane voice words
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Página 115 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
Página 205 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Página 115 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
Página 116 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is; What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The...
Página 55 - Page. So stately and so graceful is her form, I thought at first her stature was gigantic ; But on a near approach I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size.
Página 151 - essence of sunshine," it would not have surprised me, for inherent radiance it certainly seemed to contain. I had just time to set the vial down, which I had raised between my vision and the line of light that came through the slightly opened door, when he awoke, coughing violently, and fixed his glittering eyes full on my face. Aroused by the shrill summons, or perhaps already watching for such a signal, Dr. Quintil came almost instantly to his assistance, and sustained him in his arms; at the same...
Página 153 - ... sacrifice that he might see fit to demand, or that I might find it possible to make. Yet, why was this? Others as nearly related to me had awakened no parallel enthusiasm in my soul. I have done wrong perhaps in thinking that it was the power of blood that stirred me thus. Was it not rather some fine magnetic influence totally independent of mere relationship, that rendered every faculty of my being as responsive to his will as the keys of the lute to the touch of the master player? I know not...
Página 17 - ... other, while the moon shone down through the great skylight revealing to the startled watchers his ghastly lineaments and spectral form — she had, in the desperation of her fear and agony, sealed up forever those haunted and accursed chambers. For this purpose the stairway had been removed, and the space between the two halls floored and ceiled. This was done with an expedition that made food for conjecture in the neighborhood, having its origin, doubtless, in the almost frenzied terror of...