 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1794 - 496 pagina’s
...chamber, and went towards .the picture, which appeared to be: enclofed in a frame of uncommon fize, that hung in a dark part of the room. She paufed again,...timid hand,. lifted the veil ; but inftantly. let it fallperceiving that what it had concealed was. no picture, and, before fhe could leave the chamber,... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1794 - 496 pagina’s
...chamber, and went towards the picture, which appeared to be enclofed in a frame of uncommon fize, that hung in a dark part of the room. She paufed again, and then, with a. timid hand, lifted the veii; but inftantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 490 pagina’s
...chamber, and went towards the | pifture, which appeared to be enclosed in a \ frame of uncommon fize, that hung in a \ dark part of the room. She paufed again,...— perceiving that ] what it had concealed was no pifture, and, \ before (lie could leave the chamber, fhe A. dropped fenfelefs on the floor. When "fhe... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 496 pagina’s
...part of the room. • She paused again,, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could leave «l£ chamber, she dropped senseless on the noor. - When she recovered her recollection,the... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pagina’s
...dark part of the room. She paused again, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor. When she recovered her recollection,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pagina’s
...adventure with the veil. ' She paused again, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil ; but ipstantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor. When she recovered her recollection,... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 pagina’s
...dark part of the room. She paused again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor. When she recovered her recollection,... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin - 1891 - 360 pagina’s
...are no more than this : ' She paused again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall, perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture ; and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor.' Long afterwards the object is described... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 346 pagina’s
...illustrates the method : " She paused again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could leave the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor." "// was no picture" and the reader... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1901 - 344 pagina’s
...dark part of the room. She paused again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture; and before she could leave the chamber dropped senseless upon the floor." What was behind the veil? In a famous... | |
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She paused again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor. 
