The Letters of a Portuguese Nun Marianna Alcoforado

Cover The Letters of a Portuguese Nun Marianna Alcoforado

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIRST LETTER Men amigo verdadeiro, quem me vos levou tâo longe ? . . . Como vos vos foftes, tudo fe tornou trifteza ; nem parece ainda, fenâo que eftava efpreitando jâ que vos fofieis. Bernardim Ribeiro, Saudades, cap. i. O but think, my love, how much thou wert wanting in fore- fight. Ah! unfortunate, thou wert bet

...

rayed, and thou didft betray me with illufive hopes. A paffion on which thou didft reft fo many profpects of pleafure now only caufes thee a deadly defpair, which is like nothing elfe but theFirst cruelty of the abfence which occa- LETTER / fions it. What ! muft this abfence, to which my forrow, all ingenious though it be, cannot give a fad enough name, deprive me for ever of a fight of thofe eyes in which I was wont to fee fo much love, which made me feel fo full of joy, which took the place of all elfe to me, and which, in a word, were all that I defired ? Mine eyes, alas ! have loft the only light that gave them life, tears alone are left them, and ceafelefs weeping is the fole employment I have given them fince I learned that you were bent upon a feparation fo unbearable to me that it muft foon bring about my death. But yet it feems to me that I cling in fome fort to the forrows of which you are the fole caufe. I ' L £) J. J. i. K confecrated my life to you from the moment when I firft faw you, and I feel a certain pleafure in facri- ficing it to you. I fend you my fighs a thoufand times each day, they feek you everywhere, and as fole recompenfe of fo much disquietude they bring me back a warning too true, alas, of my un- happinefs: an unhappinefs which is cruel enough to prevent me from flattering myfelf with hope, and which is ever calling to me?Ceafe, ceafe to wear thyfelf out in vain, ill- fated Marianna, ceafe looking for a lover whom thou ...

MoreLess

Read book The Letters of a Portuguese Nun Marianna Alcoforado for free

You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
Ads Skip 5 sec Skip
+Write review

User Reviews:

Write Review:

Guest

Guest