Melmoth the Wanderer, 第 1 卷R. Bentley, 1892 - 335 頁 |
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agitation ALBIGENSES amid Anne Radcliffe answer appeared approached arms attended believe Bertram Bishop brother Byron cell character Charles Kemble Charles Nodier CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN child church confession convent cries crime crucifix dare death demon Director door dreadful Dublin dying ears Edmund Kean exclaimed extraordinary eyes father fear feel felt four monks Gustave Planche habit hand hear heard heart Heaven honor hope horrible horror hour human imagined Irish John knew London look Lord Byron Madrid Manuel matins Maturin MELMOTH THE WANDERER Milesian Chief mind miserable monastic Monçada Montorio mother never night old Melmoth parents passion play pray prayers prostrate repeated retired scene Scott seemed shuddered silent sleep soul sound Spain Spaniard Stanton stood struggled suffered summoned Superior terror thing Thomas Moore thought tion tone trembled uttered victim voice vows whispered whole wish words wretch writing Zaira
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第 41 頁 - ... of departed greatness; they approached, but did not yet overwhelm or conceal them, as if Nature herself was for once awed by the power of man; and far below, the lovely valley of Valencia blushed and burned in all the glory of sunset, like a bride receiving the last glowing kiss of the bridegroom before the approach of night.
第 27 頁 - ... drawer of the mahogany chest standing under that portrait, — it is among some papers of no value, such as manuscript sermons, and pamphlets on the improvement of Ireland, and such stuff; he will distinguish it by its being tied round with a black tape, and the paper being very moldy and discolored. He may read it if he will; — I think he had better not. At all events, I adjure him, if there be any power in the adjuration of a dying man, to burn it.
第 67 頁 - The hour shall be midday," answered the stranger, with a horrid and unintelligible smile; "and the place shall be the bare walls of a madhouse, where you shall rise rattling in your chains, and rustling from your straw, to greet me, - yet still you shall have THE CURSE OF SANITY, and of memory. My voice shall ring in your ears till then, and the glance of these eyes shall be reflected from every object, animate or inanimate, till you behold them again.
第 21 頁 - Sir, I don't want to do either.' 'Well, what did you see that you — you took notice of?' 'Only a picture, Sir.' 'A picture, Sir! — the original is still alive.' John, though under the impression of his recent feelings, could not but look incredulous. 'John,' whispered his uncle; — 'John, they say I am dying of this and that; and one says it is for want of nourishment, and one says it is for want of medicine, — but, John,' and his face looked hideously ghastly, 'I am dying of a fright. That...
第 70 頁 - ... to be clogged with a heavy condition, namely, that they must be bound before a magistrate to convert twenty Mussulmans a day, on their return to Turkey. The rest of the pamphlet was reasoned very much in the conclusive style of Captain Bobadil, - these twenty will convert twenty more apiece, and these two hundred converts, converting their due number in the same time, all Turkey would be converted before the Grand Signior knew where he was. Then comes the coup d'eclat, - one fine morning, every...
第 22 頁 - Yet he is dying," said John, glancing his fearful eye on the contracted nostril, the glazed eye, the drooping jaw, the whole horrible apparatus of the fades Hippocratica displayed, and soon to cease its display. Old Melmoth at this moment seemed to be in a deep stupor; his eyes lost that little expression they had before, and his hands, that had convulsively been catching at the blankets, let go their short and quivering grasp, and lay extended on the bed like the claws of some bird that had died...
第 52 頁 - Englishman with an expression which the mixture of rage, hatred, and fear rendered terrible. All the guests rose at these words, - the whole company now presented two singular groups, that of the amazed guests all collected together, and repeating, "Who, what is he?" and that of the Englishman, who stood unmoved, and Olavida, who dropped dead in the attitude of pointing to him. The body was removed into another room, and the departure of the Englishman was not noticed till the company returned to...
第 48 頁 - ... felt there was something extraordinary in this. Hush! was uttered by every voice almost at the same moment. A dead silence followed, - you would think, from their intent looks, that they listened with their very eyes. This deep silence, contrasted with the splendor of the feast, and the light effused from torches held by the domestics, produced a singular effect, - it seemed for some moments like an assembly of the dead. The silence was interrupted, though the cause of wonder had not ceased,...
第 66 頁 - ... his destiny. When the play was over, he stood for some moments in the deserted streets. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and he saw near him a figure, whose shadow, projected half across the street (there were no flagged ways then, chains and posts were the only defense of the foot passenger), appeared to him of gigantic magnitude. He had been so long accustomed to contend with these phantoms of the imagination, that he took a kind of stubborn delight in subduing them. He walked up to the...
第 178 頁 - A naked human being, covered with blood, and uttering screams of rage and torture, flashed by me ; four monks pursued him — they had lights. I had shut the door at the end of the gallery — I felt they must return and pass me — I was still on my knees, and trembling from head to foot. The victim reached the door, found it shut, and rallied. I turned, and saw a groupe worthy of Murillo.