Striking likenesses; or, The votaries of fashion, Том 2B. Clarke, 1808 |
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... sigh- ing at the desertion of Dauverne , gladly acceded to the proposal of Lady , Selina , to take advantage of the fine evening by a stroll in the park ; and stealing unperceived from the com- pany , they sought their hats and quit ...
... sigh- ing at the desertion of Dauverne , gladly acceded to the proposal of Lady , Selina , to take advantage of the fine evening by a stroll in the park ; and stealing unperceived from the com- pany , they sought their hats and quit ...
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... sighing , still attentively gazed on the marquis . " Yet think not , " he pursued , " that dependence is your lot . At the death of your saint- like mother , five thousand pounds was invested in my hands , as the portion of her orphan ...
... sighing , still attentively gazed on the marquis . " Yet think not , " he pursued , " that dependence is your lot . At the death of your saint- like mother , five thousand pounds was invested in my hands , as the portion of her orphan ...
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... sighing , dying girl , in the corner , has lost her love : de'el tak ' the wars that tore my Willy from me , " continued her lady- ship , laughing . " A smart captain obtained her heart ; and then , thief- life , ran away with the ...
... sighing , dying girl , in the corner , has lost her love : de'el tak ' the wars that tore my Willy from me , " continued her lady- ship , laughing . " A smart captain obtained her heart ; and then , thief- life , ran away with the ...
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... sigh- ing : " would that Dauverne , like me , saw perfection in no other being ! " " What would you imply ? " ques- tioned Lady Geraldine . Oh , no- thing , nothing ! " answered Sunder- land ; " for worlds would I not wound your ...
... sigh- ing : " would that Dauverne , like me , saw perfection in no other being ! " " What would you imply ? " ques- tioned Lady Geraldine . Oh , no- thing , nothing ! " answered Sunder- land ; " for worlds would I not wound your ...
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... sigh - a sensation like fear stole over her , yet , ashamed to acknowledge it , even to herself , she , resolved to examine the interior of the hermitage ; and had already gained the threshold , when she distinctly heard the following ...
... sigh - a sensation like fear stole over her , yet , ashamed to acknowledge it , even to herself , she , resolved to examine the interior of the hermitage ; and had already gained the threshold , when she distinctly heard the following ...
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affection Antholine's Antonia started archly Arkerman articulated barouche beauty behold berry betrayed Bless blush bosom bowed Captain Glendenning Cecilia cheek Cheltenham chioness choly cival countenance dancing daugh daughter Dauverne dear derland dine Duchess of Delaware earl exclaimed Lady eyes Falmouth fashion father fear feel gaiety gazing girl grace Grange hand happiness heart heaven honour Hudibras inquired interrupted Jonathan Penrose Lady Ge Lady Geral Lady Geraldine Lady Selina ladyship laughing look Lord Carberry Lord Westbrook lordship Mahala marchioness melan Miss Forrester Moreland murmured never Obadiah pale paused Penrose pity poor possess pursued quaker racter raldine rejoined Lady repeated Lady replied Antonia replied Lady rester resumed Selina and Antonia sigh sister smile sorrow soul spirit Sunderland sure sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion tonia trembled turning verne vicarage virtue voice Warwickshire whispered
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Страница 188 - I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love Jul. Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Страница 224 - Returning he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Страница 51 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down!
Страница 186 - In early youth the heart of every one is a poet ; it creates a scene of imagined happinefs and delusive hopes ; it clothes the world in the bright colours of its own fancy ; it refines what is coarse, it exalts what is mean ; it sees nothing but disinterestednefs in friendfhip, it promises eternal fidelity in love.
Страница 196 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain: And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stufTd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Страница 39 - To look a gift horse in the mouth; And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth: But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For...
Страница 250 - Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern Wing, Or where the Beetle winds His small but sullen Horn, As oft he rises mid the twilight Path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless Hum...
Страница 186 - ... delusive hopes ; it clothes the world in the bright colours of its own fancy ; it refines what is coarse, it exalts what is mean ; it sees nothing but disinterestedness in friendship, it promises eternal fidelity in love. Even on the distresses of its situation it can throw a certain romantic shade of melancholy, that leaves a man sad, but does not make him unhappy. But at a more advanced age, " the fairy visions fade," and he suffers most deeply, who has indulged them the most.
Страница 221 - ... few hints, respecting the antiquity of the manor-house at Woodlands, and the reports that several of the rooms were haunted."12 In many nineteenth-century novels, satire is expressed by the characters themselves. A duchess, in Louisa Stanhope's Striking Likenesses (1808) exclaims sardonically: '"Did the bat shriek from the clustering ivy?