 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 462 pages
...faculties were fwallowed up by thofe of feeing and of hearing : He had mechanically raifed himfelf upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards ; and in...this attitude he gazed with a look through which his foul feemed eager to efcape. To his view, thus ftrained upon vacant fpace, in a few minutes appeared... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 444 pages
...faculties were fwallowed up by thofe of feeing and of hearing : He had mechanically raifed himfelf upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards ; and in...this attitude he gazed with a look through which his foul feemed eager to efcape. To his view, thus ftrained upon vacant fpace, in a few minutes appeared... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1821 - 744 pages
...faculties were swallowed up by those of seeing and of hearing: he had mechanically raised himself upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards; and in this attitude he gazed with a look through which bis soul seemed eager to escape. To his view, thus strained upon vacant space, in a few minutes appeared... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 362 pages
...faculties were swallowed up by those of seeing and hearing. He had mechanically raised himself upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards ; and in...vacant space, in a few minutes appeared the figure of a wonian arrayed in white, with a veil that covered her face, and flowed down upon her back and shoulders.... | |
 | Hans Reinhard Möbius - 1902 - 152 pages
...prelude to something strauge and supernatural; .... the place was suddenly illuminated .... To his view in a few minutes appeared the figure of a woman arrayed...The phantom approached him with an easy step, and, liftiug up her veil, discovered the individual countenance of Monimia the youth became a statue ....... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 360 pages
...faculties were swallowed up by those of seeing and hearing. He had mechanically raised himself upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards ; and in...he gazed with a look through which his soul seemed [ 249 ] eager to escape. To his view, thus strained upon vacant space, in a few minutes appeared the... | |
 | Hans Reinhard Möbius - 1902 - 156 pages
...strange and supernatural; .... the place was suddenly illuminated .... To his view in a few niinutes appeared the figure of a woman arrayed in white, with a veil that covered her face, and fiowed down upon her back and shoulders: The phantom approached him with an easy step, and, lifting... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1925 - 308 pages
...faculties were swallowed up by those of seeing and of hearing: he had mechanically raised himself upon one knee, with his body advancing forwards; and in...face, and flowed down upon her back and shoulders: The phantome approached him with an easy step, and, lifting up her veil, discovered (believe it, O reader!)... | |
 | Albert J. Rivero - 1997 - 324 pages
...buried to grieve and to worship her memory, only to be astonished by her appearance before him—"a woman arrayed in white, with a veil that covered her...face, and flowed down upon her back and shoulders" (318); thought killed by a depraved world so dominated by Fathom that her survival seems impossible,... | |
 | Jerry C. Beasley - 1998 - 284 pages
...gloom of the midnight hour, "something strange and supernatural" occurs: out of the darkness appears "the figure of a woman arrayed in white, with a veil...face, and flowed down upon her back and shoulders" (p. 3 1 8). This "phantome," at first thought by Renaldo to be a ghost, is the living Monimia. The... | |
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... one knee, with his body advancing forwards; and in this attitude he gazed with a look through which his soul seemed eager to escape. To his view, thus strained upon vacant space, in a few minutes appeared the figure of a woman arrayed in white, with... 