Cecilia: Or, Memoirs of an HeiressG. Bell and sons, 1882 |
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Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress, by the Author of Evelina Frances Burney Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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acquaintance admiration affairs already answered appearance Arnott assistance assure attended begged Belfield believe better Briggs brother Burney called character concern continued conversation cried Cecilia Delvile desire determined distress dress engaged enquire expect extremely eyes fear follow fortune gave give half hand happy Harrel hear heard heart honour hope immediately interest knew known lady late least leave less live look madam manner matter mean merely mind Miss Beverley Monckton morning Morrice never object obliged offer once party passed perceived perhaps person pleasure poor pray present quitted reason received rest returned seemed seen servant Sir Robert Sir Robert Floyer situation soon speak spirit suffer sure surprise talk tell thing thought told took town turned waiting whole wish
Populaire passages
Pagina xxii - You have crowded into a few small volumes an incredible variety of characters; most of them well planned, well supported, and well contrasted with each other. If there be any fault in this respect, it is one in which you are in. no great danger of being imitated. Justly as your characters are drawn, perhaps they are too numerous. But I beg pardon ; I fear it is quite in vain to preach economy to those who are come young to excessive and sudden opulence.
Pagina 267 - ... to interrupt his reverie, she turned her head another way. For some minutes he took no notice of this; and then, as if suddenly recollecting himself, he called out hastily "I beg your pardon, ma'am, you were saying something?
Pagina xvii - some people want to make out some credit to me from the little rogue's book. I was told by a gentleman this morning, that it was a very fine book, if it was all her own. ' It is all her own,' said I, ' for me, I am sure, for I never saw one word of it before it was printed.
Pagina 267 - Yes, Sir, said she, half laughing, it is, indeed, not very entertaining ! Nothing is entertaining, answered he, for two minutes together. Things are so little different one from another, that there is no making pleasure out of any thing.
Pagina 128 - O, yes," cried Miss Larolles, " he is the sweetest dresser in the world : he has the most delightful taste you can conceive, nobody has half so good a fancy. I assure you it's a great thing to be spoke to by him : we are all of us quite angry when he won't take any notice of us.
Pagina xvi - ... adhere. I am but too certain they will now listen to no other. I dread, therefore, to make a trial where I despair of success.
Pagina ix - ... in a very different direction from that into which it ultimately settled. Instead of presenting faithful copies of nature, these tales were generally burlesques, ridiculing the improbable events and exaggerated sentiments which she had met with in sundry silly romances. Something of this fancy is to be found in ' Northanger Abbey,' but she soon left it far behind in her subsequent course. It would seem as if she were first taking note of all the faults to be avoided, and curiously considering...
Pagina 266 - At the door of the Pantheon they were joined by Mr. Arnott and Sir Robert Floyer, whom Cecilia now saw with added aversion: they entered the great room during the second act of the Concert, to which as no one of the party but herself had any desire to listen, no sort of attention was paid; the ladies entertaining themselves as if no Orchestra was in the room, and the gentlemen, with an equal disregard to it, struggling for a place by the fire, about which they continued hovering till the music was...