This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ...resided in it, whose heart was my repository, whose bosom was my pillow! Rare composition of all the excellencies of Nature! dear resemblance of what we picture of the spirits of the secret world! Rhapsodist I am none: stranger, if you had known her, you would neither L 4 wonder wonder at my words, nor ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ...resided in it, whose heart was my repository, whose bosom was my pillow! Rare composition of all the excellencies of Nature! dear resemblance of what we picture of the spirits of the secret world! Rhapsodist I am none: stranger, if you had known her, you would neither L 4 wonder wonder at my words, nor think them extra vagant. Connubial love, how sweet did I find thee! I and my Rosolie were happy, harmonious, in peace with mankind, and gratesul to Heaven. Our retirement was enchanting; and to improve the natural beauties around us, to arrange the blushing flowers in our garden, to cull the sweets of poesy, and to wander in an evening upon the borders of the tranquil sea, gave us more pleasure than we could have sound in the active city. The expectations which I had formed before I possessed her, were sully realized; and great and many as my wishes had been, they were completely answered. Of Venice we saw little j we however heard much of it from Alberti, whose friendship increased, rather than diminished: Salvini was become wholly wholly a stranger to us, and we held little converse with any of his acquaintances.. We were one evening preparing to go on the water, when we were surprised to see a carriage driven up to the door, and the coachman alight, in order to let some person out of it. Rosolie and I went to the window, and in a moment perceived poor Signora Bianca, pale, and apparently weakened by affliction, slowly walking towards the house: we both ran forward to meet her, and my tender Rosolie threw her arms around the neck of her enfeebled friend, who, choaked with grief, could not speak taeither of us j she, however, took hold of my arm, and when fiie got into the parlour, sunk on a sofa, and burst into tears. My wife was greatly...
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