 | 1820 - 856 pages
...querade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it m such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre,...where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in die trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed ont in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 180 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To 'find...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetf'ulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-be-gone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchelness more striking and painful thanKi meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering' like...joyless, where all around is gay— to see it dressed following lines : " Sheis far from the laud wlnre her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are... | |
 | 1825 - 844 pages
...prevailed on to go to a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and so woe-begone, as if it had tried to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
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The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is... 
