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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... feel at being feparated at fo unmerciful a distance from my beloved fifter and moft engaging com- panion : yet why may not fober truths be - expreffed in lively language ? — gravity is by ex- 2 The HISTORY of I am at present a ftranger ...
... feel at being feparated at fo unmerciful a distance from my beloved fifter and moft engaging com- panion : yet why may not fober truths be - expreffed in lively language ? — gravity is by ex- 2 The HISTORY of I am at present a ftranger ...
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... feel ; and I could perceive that my breeding was held in the highest con- tempt by the polite circle I was caft in , merely for my betraying some symptoms of humanity at the ftrong painted scenes of horror that were introduced to my ...
... feel ; and I could perceive that my breeding was held in the highest con- tempt by the polite circle I was caft in , merely for my betraying some symptoms of humanity at the ftrong painted scenes of horror that were introduced to my ...
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... horror ; and now her tenderness was evinced by a falling tear - now difguft was alone predominant and now astonish- ment , for a moment , held even feeling in fufpence : - fufpence : the villainies , the artifices . of 22 The HISTORY of.
... horror ; and now her tenderness was evinced by a falling tear - now difguft was alone predominant and now astonish- ment , for a moment , held even feeling in fufpence : - fufpence : the villainies , the artifices . of 22 The HISTORY of.
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... feeling juftly , as it is free from all the prejudice and violence of paffion , 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 ...
... feeling juftly , as it is free from all the prejudice and violence of paffion , 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 ...
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... feel at the fight of a male mortal : but furely , I add upon these oc- cafions , times must be greatly changed , or my mama would never have cautioned me to be so much upon my guard , with re- spect to such a species . The colonel lives ...
... feel at the fight of a male mortal : but furely , I add upon these oc- cafions , times must be greatly changed , or my mama would never have cautioned me to be so much upon my guard , with re- spect to such a species . The colonel lives ...
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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.