The History of Miss Pittborough: In a Series of Letters. By a Lady. In Two Volumes. ...A. Millar, and T. Cadell; and J. Johnson and Company, 1767 |
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... fear , prove your greatest misfortune : it is impoffible to behold it with indifference : - the bloom of health and peace that glows upon your cheek - the agreeable vivacity that sparkles in your eye with the arch fmile , occa- fioned ...
... fear , prove your greatest misfortune : it is impoffible to behold it with indifference : - the bloom of health and peace that glows upon your cheek - the agreeable vivacity that sparkles in your eye with the arch fmile , occa- fioned ...
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... , the heat of ambition , the narrow hopes and fears of felf - love , and the fordid anxiety of felf - intereft . Be it your bufinefs , your glory , to cultivate friend- friendship upon this bafis only , as it is the MISS PITTBOROUGH . 31.
... , the heat of ambition , the narrow hopes and fears of felf - love , and the fordid anxiety of felf - intereft . Be it your bufinefs , your glory , to cultivate friend- friendship upon this bafis only , as it is the MISS PITTBOROUGH . 31.
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... fear one fhould not be able to meet with fuch an- other : thus you fee felf - love is a most excellent principle : - and I think , upon reflection , instead of the method I pro- pofed , I will have a cord to draw him on occafionally ...
... fear one fhould not be able to meet with fuch an- other : thus you fee felf - love is a most excellent principle : - and I think , upon reflection , instead of the method I pro- pofed , I will have a cord to draw him on occafionally ...
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... fear , judiciously varied , the richest food for a lover ? a little cold water now and then to dilute the one the cordial of a few kind words to mitigate the other , would have both a happy and useful ef- fect . - to What an agreeable ...
... fear , judiciously varied , the richest food for a lover ? a little cold water now and then to dilute the one the cordial of a few kind words to mitigate the other , would have both a happy and useful ef- fect . - to What an agreeable ...
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... fear I fhould not do my- felf injustice ; I am above half inclined to oblige him . Eleven o'clock p . m . Well , all is over ; and we are the loves and the doves , and all that : - what , he knelt , he swore , he adored ! upon my ho ...
... fear I fhould not do my- felf injustice ; I am above half inclined to oblige him . Eleven o'clock p . m . Well , all is over ; and we are the loves and the doves , and all that : - what , he knelt , he swore , he adored ! upon my ho ...
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Страница 32 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Страница 19 - Some hours leisure, and the appearance of Garrick in the character of Richard, induced me to engage a solitary place in the side-box, that I might indulge myself, free from all that impertinent interruption a party is too liable to produce.