Husband Hunting, Or, The Mother and Daughters: A Tale of Fashionable Life, Volume 1Wells and Lilly, 1825 |
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Pagina 9
... surprise lightened across his master's withered features ; he was evidently smote by strong and mingled recollections . " Mrs. Vaughan ! my brother's widow ! Con- found your stammering ; why did you not awake me when she came : order a ...
... surprise lightened across his master's withered features ; he was evidently smote by strong and mingled recollections . " Mrs. Vaughan ! my brother's widow ! Con- found your stammering ; why did you not awake me when she came : order a ...
Pagina 18
... surprised an observer of the infinite serenity , varied only by the most gracious of smiles , that ex- panded over it for the six long hours of the night before . She brought an open letter in her hand . She stood for a moment , with ...
... surprised an observer of the infinite serenity , varied only by the most gracious of smiles , that ex- panded over it for the six long hours of the night before . She brought an open letter in her hand . She stood for a moment , with ...
Pagina 23
... surprised to find myself fol- lowed by every acquaintance I have on earth , with their shillings a - piece for the show I had the happiness to exhibit to the admiring mul- titude . " - A thought sprang up in his mother's prolific brain ...
... surprised to find myself fol- lowed by every acquaintance I have on earth , with their shillings a - piece for the show I had the happiness to exhibit to the admiring mul- titude . " - A thought sprang up in his mother's prolific brain ...
Pagina 27
... surprise me either : it's just like his good - nature which never suffers him to do things by halves . " The old man paused , for his nephew's voice was just then heard at the door . " Well , Sarah , " said Philip to the old housekeeper ...
... surprise me either : it's just like his good - nature which never suffers him to do things by halves . " The old man paused , for his nephew's voice was just then heard at the door . " Well , Sarah , " said Philip to the old housekeeper ...
Pagina 28
... surprise . " Almost three weeks , and I not hear of it till last Monday - the Devil ! " Courtney paced the room furiously , but he soon recovered himself with admirable pre- sence of mind . " Rather fatiguing to the old gentleman ...
... surprise . " Almost three weeks , and I not hear of it till last Monday - the Devil ! " Courtney paced the room furiously , but he soon recovered himself with admirable pre- sence of mind . " Rather fatiguing to the old gentleman ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 247 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Pagina 56 - Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out, His passion for absurdity's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong ; Though wrong the mode, comply ; more sense is shown In wearing others
Pagina 63 - Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore...
Pagina 236 - Tis false; no law divine condemns the virtuous, For differing from the rules your schools devise. Look round, how Providence bestows alike Sunshine and rain, to bless the fruitful year, On different nations, all of different faiths : And...
Pagina 7 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Pagina 226 - That it is jealousy's peculiar nature To swell small things to great ; nay, out of nought To conjure much, and then to lose its reason Amid the hideous phantoms it has form'd. Alon. Had I ten thousand lives, I'd give them all To be deceived. I fear 'tis doomsday with me.
Pagina 206 - That cures all other woe. NARCISSA lives ; PHILANDER is forgot. O the soft commerce ! 0 the tender ties, Close twisted with the fibres of the heart ! Which, broken, break them, and drain off the soul 1065 Of human joy, and make it pain to live.
Pagina 257 - ... the busy world at least in this Would take example from a wretch like me! None then would waste their hours in foreign thoughts, Forget themselves and what concerns their peace, To tread the mazes of fantastic Falsehood, To haunt her idle sounds and flying tales Through all the giddy, noisy courts of rumour; Malicious slander never would have leisure...
Pagina 257 - Oh, that the busy world at least in this Would take example from a wretch like me! None then would waste their hours in foreign thoughts, Forget themselves and what concerns their peace, To...
Pagina 196 - The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, And make a chequered shadow on the ground...