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Pagina 58
... humour her own surprise when the book falling into her hands after a long interval of years , and when its contents were quite forgotten , she found it impossible to endure at the age of fourscore , what at fifteen she , like all the ...
... humour her own surprise when the book falling into her hands after a long interval of years , and when its contents were quite forgotten , she found it impossible to endure at the age of fourscore , what at fifteen she , like all the ...
Pagina 62
John Cordy Jeaffreson. do one . She had wit , honour , good - humour , and judgment . She was mistress of all the pleasing arts of conversation ; but used them not to any one but those who loved plain- dealing . " This is the testimony ...
John Cordy Jeaffreson. do one . She had wit , honour , good - humour , and judgment . She was mistress of all the pleasing arts of conversation ; but used them not to any one but those who loved plain- dealing . " This is the testimony ...
Pagina 94
... humour could not stand before the audacious frolic of the young man who mimicked and ridiculed their fine airs ( as they yawned out , " Positively Bill , I protest ; " " May I perish everlastingly ; " " " Pon honour ; " " D- me ...
... humour could not stand before the audacious frolic of the young man who mimicked and ridiculed their fine airs ( as they yawned out , " Positively Bill , I protest ; " " May I perish everlastingly ; " " " Pon honour ; " " D- me ...
Pagina 107
... humour that smiles up at the wayfarer like a flower in the dew ; however cruel may be the wrong that he regards , he cannot help viewing it with re- lation to the nobility of that humanity which effected it , and then so smitten is he ...
... humour that smiles up at the wayfarer like a flower in the dew ; however cruel may be the wrong that he regards , he cannot help viewing it with re- lation to the nobility of that humanity which effected it , and then so smitten is he ...
Pagina 116
... humour displayed in that journal came from a dying man , not that it has the slightest tincture of un- hallowed mirth - for it is all soft and playful as a child's smile , and is pervaded by that consideration for others which we are ...
... humour displayed in that journal came from a dying man , not that it has the slightest tincture of un- hallowed mirth - for it is all soft and playful as a child's smile , and is pervaded by that consideration for others which we are ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Volledige weergave - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Volledige weergave - 1858 |
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Pagina 81 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Pagina 62 - But, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, the culture of the female mind seems to have been almost entirely neglected. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was regarded as a prodigy. Ladies highly born, highly bred, and naturally...
Pagina 154 - Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Pagina 215 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and...
Pagina 199 - Talking of widows — pray, Eliza, if ever you are such, do not think of giving yourself to some wealthy Nabob, because I design to marry you myself. My wife cannot live long, and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour.
Pagina 202 - I come off conqueror my spirits are fled 'tis a bad omen do not weep my dear Lady — your tears are too precious to shed for me bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women ! may health, peace, and happiness prove your handmaids. If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemn'd which my heart, not my head betray'd me into.
Pagina 139 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.
Pagina 9 - How am I crost, or whence is this curse ? Even from hence, the men that should employ such as I am, are enamoured of their own wits...
Pagina 47 - Hill; it stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world...
Pagina 71 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...