Men and Manners of the Eighteenth CenturyFlood and Vincent, 1898 - 318 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... Arabella's collection , " Englished mostly by persons of honor . " The chief favorite appears to have been a translation of Monsieur Honoré d'Urfé's " Astrea , " once the delight of Henri Quatre [ died 1715 ] and his court , and still ...
... Arabella's collection , " Englished mostly by persons of honor . " The chief favorite appears to have been a translation of Monsieur Honoré d'Urfé's " Astrea , " once the delight of Henri Quatre [ died 1715 ] and his court , and still ...
Pagina 46
... Arabella , the heroine , has more good stuff in her than other imaginary ladies of the time who have been more praised . She is supposed to have been brought up in the country and secluded from all society , but allowed to amuse herself ...
... Arabella , the heroine , has more good stuff in her than other imaginary ladies of the time who have been more praised . She is supposed to have been brought up in the country and secluded from all society , but allowed to amuse herself ...
Pagina 48
... Arabella born , and , after the early death of her mother , grew up in solitude except for the com- panionship of the marquis . Nature had , indeed , given her a most charming face , a shape easy and delicate , a sweet and insinuating ...
... Arabella born , and , after the early death of her mother , grew up in solitude except for the com- panionship of the marquis . Nature had , indeed , given her a most charming face , a shape easy and delicate , a sweet and insinuating ...
Pagina 49
... Arabella found them . The surprising adven- tures with which they were filled proved a most pleasing enter- tainment to a young lady who was wholly secluded from the world , who had no other diversion but ranging like a nymph through ...
... Arabella found them . The surprising adven- tures with which they were filled proved a most pleasing enter- tainment to a young lady who was wholly secluded from the world , who had no other diversion but ranging like a nymph through ...
Pagina 50
... Arabella had now entered into her seventeenth year , with the regret of seeing herself the object of admiration to a few rustics only , who happened to see her ; when , one Sunday , making use of the permission the marquis sometimes ...
... Arabella had now entered into her seventeenth year , with the regret of seeing herself the object of admiration to a few rustics only , who happened to see her ; when , one Sunday , making use of the permission the marquis sometimes ...
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Pagina 182 - Yet he was kind — or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : T was certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.