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Pagina 13
... coming to us , or our going abroad . At that time I thought it a loss , though my father's excel- lent temper , great cheerfulness , and uncommon good humour made him exert himself for our entertainment at home ; and as I loved him ...
... coming to us , or our going abroad . At that time I thought it a loss , though my father's excel- lent temper , great cheerfulness , and uncommon good humour made him exert himself for our entertainment at home ; and as I loved him ...
Pagina 18
... . This I observed , but was so young and innocent as to imagine it without design . One day he took me by the hand , as I was coming down stairs , and said " he almost wished he had never known the family . " I 18 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
... . This I observed , but was so young and innocent as to imagine it without design . One day he took me by the hand , as I was coming down stairs , and said " he almost wished he had never known the family . " I 18 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
Pagina 22
... coming in to dinner . I expected to have seen somebody with the appearance of a gentleman , 1 Alexander Pendarves , Esq . , of Roscrow , Cornwall . when the poor , old , dripping almost drowned Gromio 22 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
... coming in to dinner . I expected to have seen somebody with the appearance of a gentleman , 1 Alexander Pendarves , Esq . , of Roscrow , Cornwall . when the poor , old , dripping almost drowned Gromio 22 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
Pagina 23
... coming was ( it was stated ) a quarrel he had with a gentleman ' who had married his niece ; he offered to settle on him his whole estate , provided he would after his death , take his name . Bassanio ( his nephew's name ) proud of his ...
... coming was ( it was stated ) a quarrel he had with a gentleman ' who had married his niece ; he offered to settle on him his whole estate , provided he would after his death , take his name . Bassanio ( his nephew's name ) proud of his ...
Pagina 28
... coming to supper : nothing could be at that time more vexatious to me , but I proposed one consolation , which that Gromio and the rest of the family should see how unacceptable the proposal that had been made to me that afternoon was ...
... coming to supper : nothing could be at that time more vexatious to me , but I proposed one consolation , which that Gromio and the rest of the family should see how unacceptable the proposal that had been made to me that afternoon was ...
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Pagina 188 - Queen; she hopes by such an unprecedented order as this is that the King will see as few as he wishes at his Court, particularly such as dare to think or speak truth.
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Pagina 134 - The above fact is cited, in a note to Lord Hervey's Memoirs, as an excuse for borrowing and hiring. 1 There are frequent allusions in these letters to the purchase and selection of flax. Mary Granville and her mother were celebrated spinners, both in flax and in that preparation of wool called Jersey.
Pagina 277 - Hogarth has promised to give me some instructions about drawing that will be of great use, — some rules of his own that he says will improve me more in a day than a year's learning in the common way.