Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Том 7author, 1797 |
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... lady , had not long been married to Mr. Dn , a gentleman of small fortune , whose chief expec- tations were founded on levee dangling , hitherto without success . Sir James thought he should find an easy conquest in Mrs. Dn , and having ...
... lady , had not long been married to Mr. Dn , a gentleman of small fortune , whose chief expec- tations were founded on levee dangling , hitherto without success . Sir James thought he should find an easy conquest in Mrs. Dn , and having ...
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... ladies in the neighbourhood , and danced one evening with a young lady , who was a parson's daughter . She was extremely amiable , and made a great impression upon the Marshal . His secretary , who was a man of easy morals , and had ...
... ladies in the neighbourhood , and danced one evening with a young lady , who was a parson's daughter . She was extremely amiable , and made a great impression upon the Marshal . His secretary , who was a man of easy morals , and had ...
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... lady whom Brisac delivered from the hands of her ravisher , was in a Turkish dress ; but she proved to be a French lady , and on a nearer view , she appeared doubly beautiful : her beauty charmed his eye , her distressed ap- pearance ...
... lady whom Brisac delivered from the hands of her ravisher , was in a Turkish dress ; but she proved to be a French lady , and on a nearer view , she appeared doubly beautiful : her beauty charmed his eye , her distressed ap- pearance ...
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... lady's will , and concluded , that " Johnny might now think himself quite snug . " Not at all , replied W- , for since I endeavoured to hum the French taylor's widow , there is not another in all Eu- rope who will trust me with a suit ...
... lady's will , and concluded , that " Johnny might now think himself quite snug . " Not at all , replied W- , for since I endeavoured to hum the French taylor's widow , there is not another in all Eu- rope who will trust me with a suit ...
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... lady in the nation , who is allowed by all to be as much distinguished for her affability as for her rank . It is no easy matter to say whether the mother or the daughter had the greater share of pride ; but of the two the former made ...
... lady in the nation , who is allowed by all to be as much distinguished for her affability as for her rank . It is no easy matter to say whether the mother or the daughter had the greater share of pride ; but of the two the former made ...
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Страница 195 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them.
Страница 185 - ... them. As Greece and Rome are the fountains from whence have flowed all kinds of excellence, to that veneration which they have a right to claim for the...
Страница 101 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Страница 90 - For no assumed behaviour can at all times hide the real character. In that unaffected civility, which springs from a gentle mind, there is a charm infinitely more powerful, than in all the studied manners of the most finished courtier. True gentleness is...
Страница 69 - What a gloom hangs all around! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock or the distant watchdog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity.
Страница 92 - Attacked by great injuries, the man of mild and gentle spirit will feel what human nature feels ; and will defend and resent as his duty allows him.
Страница 198 - He supersedes every little prospect of gain and advantage which offers itself here, if he does not find it consistent with his views of an hereafter. In a word, his hopes are full of immortality, his schemes...
Страница 91 - Gentleness is, in truth, the great avenue to mutual enjoyment. Amidst the strife of interfering interests, it tempers the violence of contention, and keeps alive the seeds of harmony. It softens animosities; renews endearments ; and renders the countenance of man a refreshment to man. Banish gentleness from the earth ; suppose the world to be filled with none but harsh and contentious spirits ; and what sort of society would remain ? the solitude of the desert were preferable to it. The conflict...
Страница 117 - ... time. If you have resolution enough to do this, you cannot but love learning ; for the mind always loves that to which it has been long, steadily and voluntarily attached.
Страница 34 - Were they to give us in their catalogue of such worthies as are now living, how different would it be from that which any of our own species would draw up! We are dazzled with the splendour of titles, the ostentation of learning, the noise of victories...