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Pagina 19
... honour to know several very accomplished gentlemen , who , with no other companion than their violin , are able to fiddle away a complete summer's day with much comfort and delight . " The occupations I have hitherto mentioned , it will ...
... honour to know several very accomplished gentlemen , who , with no other companion than their violin , are able to fiddle away a complete summer's day with much comfort and delight . " The occupations I have hitherto mentioned , it will ...
Pagina 31
... honour to present me with a horse of the unmixed Arabian breed , and a wonderful animal it was ; ' then addressing himself to Lady W - : ' I much doubt , my Ledi , whether it could have been matched in your country , so justly ...
... honour to present me with a horse of the unmixed Arabian breed , and a wonderful animal it was ; ' then addressing himself to Lady W - : ' I much doubt , my Ledi , whether it could have been matched in your country , so justly ...
Pagina 38
... honour or his country , he was supported by the conscious admiration of those countrymen whom he had left , and of ... honoured than Cæsar's sword ; ' . and when the ' self - devoted Decii died , ' independent of their love for Rome ...
... honour or his country , he was supported by the conscious admiration of those countrymen whom he had left , and of ... honoured than Cæsar's sword ; ' . and when the ' self - devoted Decii died , ' independent of their love for Rome ...
Pagina 42
... honour ; which , however , I purchased at the price of a good deal of embarrassment and uneasiness . Nothing , indeed , but the high honour conferred by such society could compensate for the feelings even of that minute , in which a man ...
... honour ; which , however , I purchased at the price of a good deal of embarrassment and uneasiness . Nothing , indeed , but the high honour conferred by such society could compensate for the feelings even of that minute , in which a man ...
Pagina 43
... honour- able personages , the conclusion proved to be nothing more than a joke upon a country member of par- liament , who asked to be helped to a bit of goose , when , in fact , the dish was a swan , which , it seems , was a favourite ...
... honour- able personages , the conclusion proved to be nothing more than a joke upon a country member of par- liament , who asked to be helped to a bit of goose , when , in fact , the dish was a swan , which , it seems , was a favourite ...
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acquaintance acquired admiration Æsop affections agreeable amidst amusements Antonio appear attended awake battle of Culloden beauty called character circumstances Clare Market companions conduct conversation Daniel Higgs death dinner disposition dreams eclogue elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged entertainment equally fashion father favour FEBRUARY 22 feelings figure-making fortune frequently friends genius gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour hope humour imagination indulge JANUARY 29 learned lived lively colours look Louisa manner MARCH 11 marriage melancholy Melfort ment mind Mirror nature never nonsense verses object obliged observed occasion opinion passions perhaps persons Phædo pleasure possessed received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sensible sentiments sign-post Sir Edward sister situation sleep society soon sort spect spirit taste Tatler thing thought tion town trifling TUESDAY Umphraville uneasiness virtue wife wish write XXIX