Date: 1797
"Over the gloom of Schedoni, no scenery had, at any moment, power; the shape and paint of external imagery gave neither impression or colour to his fancy."
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Date: 1797
"The plan, which he had mentioned, seemed to her long-harassed mind to exile her for ever from happiness, and all that was dear to her affections; it appeared like a second banishment to San Stefano, and every abbess, except that of La Pietà , came to her imagination in the portraiture of an inexo...
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Date: 1797
"As, at length, she drew near Naples, her emotions became more various and powerful; and when she distinguished the top of Vesuvius peering over every intervening summit, she wept as her imagination charactered all the well-known country it overlooked."
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Date: 1797
"The Marchesa reclined on a sofa before an open lattice; her eyes were fixed upon the prospect without, but her attention was wholly occupied by the visions that evil passions painted to her imagination."
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Date: 1797
"As, from beneath the light foliage of the accacias, or the more majestic shade of the plane-trees that waved their branches over the many-coloured cliffs of this terrace, Ellena looked down upon the magnificent scenery of the bay; it brought back to memory, in sad yet pleasing detail, the many h...
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