Elegant Tales, Histories, and Epistles of a Moral Tendency: On Love, Friendship, Matrimony, Conjugal Felicity, Jealousy, Constancy, Magnanimity, Cheerfulness, and Other Important SubjectsG. Kearsley, 1791 - 480 страници |
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... PASSION ! A FRENCH TALE . The A Violent paffion often occafions death . following ftory , which I fhall relate in as concife a manner as poffible , is an undeniable proof of the truth of this affertion . A young cavalier , hand fome ...
... PASSION ! A FRENCH TALE . The A Violent paffion often occafions death . following ftory , which I fhall relate in as concife a manner as poffible , is an undeniable proof of the truth of this affertion . A young cavalier , hand fome ...
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... . The cavalier , who already felt how much he fhould fuffer at parting with her , thought proper to fave himself that uneafinefs . He accordingly T 5 fet fet out early in the morning , before the fair A VIOLENT PASSION . 417.
... . The cavalier , who already felt how much he fhould fuffer at parting with her , thought proper to fave himself that uneafinefs . He accordingly T 5 fet fet out early in the morning , before the fair A VIOLENT PASSION . 417.
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... obliterate thofe reflections from his mind , and the remembrance of the treasure he has loft , is too dear to permit him to enter fo foon into a new engagement . T 6 THE THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY ; OR , THE FAIR ONE A VIOLENT PASSION . 419.
... obliterate thofe reflections from his mind , and the remembrance of the treasure he has loft , is too dear to permit him to enter fo foon into a new engagement . T 6 THE THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY ; OR , THE FAIR ONE A VIOLENT PASSION . 419.
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Страница 335 - Discontent lowered in their looks, and Sadness hovered round their shades ; yet they crawled on reluctant and gloomy, till they arrived at the depth of the recess, varied only with poppies and nightshade, where the dominion of Indolence terminates, and the hopeless wanderer is delivered up to Melancholy; the chains of Habit are rivetted for ever ; and Melancholy, having tortured her prisoner for a time, consigns him at last to the cruelty of Despair. While I was musing on this miserable scene, my...
Страница 334 - Reason than to disobey her; and who retreated from the heat and tumult of the way, not to the bowers of Intemperance, but to the maze of Indolence.
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Страница 422 - ... went home full of this strange adventure, and about a week after, chancing to be in company with Mr. T. the rejected lover, whom I mentioned in the beginning of my letter, I told him the whole story of his angel, not questioning but he would feel on this occasion the usual pleasure of a resenting lover, when he hears that fortune has avenged him of the cruelty of his mistress.
Страница 325 - They all agreed in rejoicing that they fliould no longer be fubjedt to her caprices, or difturbed by her documents, but fhould be now under the direction only of Reafon, to whom they made no doubt of being able to recommend themfelves by a fteady adherence to all her precepts. Reafon counfelled them, at their firft entrance upon her province, to inlift themfelves among the votaries of Religion ; and informed them, that if they trufted to her alone, they would find the fame fate with her other admirers,...
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Страница 439 - ... which the caprice of others, like the rod of an enchanter, could dissipate in a moment, and leave her to regret the loss of enjoyments, which she could neither hope to obtain nor cease to desire. Of this, however, Flavilla had no dread. She was remarkably tall for her age, and was celebrated not only for her beauty but her wit: these qualifications she considered...
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