The Recess, Or, A Tale of Other TimesFirst published in an era when most novels about young women concentrated on courtship and marriage, this novel portrays women involved in political intrigues and overseas journeys. It is set during the reign of Elizabeth I, and features as narrators, fictional daughters of Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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Page 91
... tears which now enrich your cheeks , be wholly Sidney's ! " And they were wholly Sidney's ! A sad presentiment heightened the an- guish of this parting , by telling me we never more should meet . It remains not for my weak pen to paint ...
... tears which now enrich your cheeks , be wholly Sidney's ! " And they were wholly Sidney's ! A sad presentiment heightened the an- guish of this parting , by telling me we never more should meet . It remains not for my weak pen to paint ...
Page 153
... tears of my little one , than the remedies of the servants who surrounded me . My sweet Mary had climbed up the couch on which they laid me , and clasping her arms round my neck laid her mantling cheek to my pale one , and shed deluges ...
... tears of my little one , than the remedies of the servants who surrounded me . My sweet Mary had climbed up the couch on which they laid me , and clasping her arms round my neck laid her mantling cheek to my pale one , and shed deluges ...
Page 306
... tears of a parent who can never pardon herself the extravagant error produced by over - fondness.— I knew the King to be mean , base , subtle , yet I madly delivered into his treacherous hands every thing on which our hopes , nay , even ...
... tears of a parent who can never pardon herself the extravagant error produced by over - fondness.— I knew the King to be mean , base , subtle , yet I madly delivered into his treacherous hands every thing on which our hopes , nay , even ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | vii |
Notes to the Introduction | xxxviii |
Chronology of Events in Sophia Lees Life | xlv |
Copyright | |
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