The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 23F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... Heaven , and wondered how her lady could admit them into her apartment , for they had already spoiled all the crimson damask chairs in the dining - room . But my lady's maid had much more to say on this subject ; and as it was her ...
... Heaven , and wondered how her lady could admit them into her apartment , for they had already spoiled all the crimson damask chairs in the dining - room . But my lady's maid had much more to say on this subject ; and as it was her ...
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... heaven with them ; and if many opinions can prove any thing to be true , what say you to that , sir ? India , doctor , is a prodigious wide tract of continent , where the Gymnosophists lived . Lady Tempest , let us look at your globes ...
... heaven with them ; and if many opinions can prove any thing to be true , what say you to that , sir ? India , doctor , is a prodigious wide tract of continent , where the Gymnosophists lived . Lady Tempest , let us look at your globes ...
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... Heaven ! he's coxcomb enough already , and wants no addition to his pride ; he seems to think no woman can look him in the face without falling in love with him , with his black solitaire , and his white teeth , and his frizzled hair ...
... Heaven ! he's coxcomb enough already , and wants no addition to his pride ; he seems to think no woman can look him in the face without falling in love with him , with his black solitaire , and his white teeth , and his frizzled hair ...
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... Heaven with the dregs of her age , to atone for the riot and lasciviousness of her youth . For this purpose , she had renounced all public diversions , put herself under the tuition of two field - preaching apostles , and was become one ...
... Heaven with the dregs of her age , to atone for the riot and lasciviousness of her youth . For this purpose , she had renounced all public diversions , put herself under the tuition of two field - preaching apostles , and was become one ...
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... Heaven had wrought in his favour ; how it ceased to rain , and the sun broke out on a sudden , just as he was be- ginning to preach on Kennington Common ; with many more equally stupendous prodigies , which show how great an interest Heaven ...
... Heaven had wrought in his favour ; how it ceased to rain , and the sun broke out on a sudden , just as he was be- ginning to preach on Kennington Common ; with many more equally stupendous prodigies , which show how great an interest Heaven ...
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Страница 207 - TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the vale, With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds immeasurably spread Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
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Страница 231 - You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims; for they are not worth sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Страница 231 - I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is,' pulling out a bundle from his breast: 'here they are: a gross of green spectacles, with silver rims and shagreen cases.
Страница 208 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Страница 189 - THE place of our retreat was in a little neighbourhood consisting of farmers, who tilled their own grounds, and were equal strangers to opulence and poverty.
Страница 211 - Twas Edwin's self that prest ! " Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. " Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life, — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true — The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Страница 231 - no more silver than your saucepan." "And so," returned she, "we have parted with the colt, and have only got a gross of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases? A murrain take such trumpery ! The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better." "There, my dear," cried I, "you are wrong; he should not have known them at all.
Страница 312 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.