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Pagina 17
... circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of let- ters , wished to give me a liberal education , and was desirous to unite the solidity of the ancient system ...
... circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of let- ters , wished to give me a liberal education , and was desirous to unite the solidity of the ancient system ...
Pagina 24
... circumstances had not escaped his notice ; and he failed not to observe that Emilia had acquired a stronger attachment to the pleasure of a town life , than was either right in itself , or agreea- ble to that preference for domestic ...
... circumstances had not escaped his notice ; and he failed not to observe that Emilia had acquired a stronger attachment to the pleasure of a town life , than was either right in itself , or agreea- ble to that preference for domestic ...
Pagina 25
... circumstance , she would have been exhausting her spirits at a ball , or wasting the night at cards . Nor was he less studious in forming her taste for company than for books . Though he had never aimed at an extensive acquaintance ...
... circumstance , she would have been exhausting her spirits at a ball , or wasting the night at cards . Nor was he less studious in forming her taste for company than for books . Though he had never aimed at an extensive acquaintance ...
Pagina 26
... circumstances he notice ; and he failed not to observ acquired a stronger attachment to i town life , than was either right .. ble to that preference for domest quiet of a country life , which and which he still wished to grati In place ...
... circumstances he notice ; and he failed not to observ acquired a stronger attachment to i town life , than was either right .. ble to that preference for domest quiet of a country life , which and which he still wished to grati In place ...
Pagina 27
... circumstance gave her mind more and more a do- mestic turn . The same delicacy from which he at first gave way to her taste for company and public amusements made Horatio avoid shewing that preference which , he entertained for a ...
... circumstance gave her mind more and more a do- mestic turn . The same delicacy from which he at first gave way to her taste for company and public amusements made Horatio avoid shewing that preference which , he entertained for a ...
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acquaintance acquired admiration Ęsop affections agreeable amidst amusements Antonio appearance attended awake battle of Culloden behaviour bestowed called character circumstances companions conduct conversation Daniel Higgs death dinner dreams Duke of Cumberland elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged equally fashion father favour feelings Figure-making flattered Flint fortune French frequently friends gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour indulge JANUARY 22 Jemmy ladies learned lived lively colours look manner marriage melancholy Melfort ment mind Mirror Miss Juliana nature neighbour never nonsense verses object obliged observed occasion opinion passions perhaps persons pleasure racter readers received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sensible sentiment shew sister situation society sometimes soon sort spirit taste Tatler temper thing thought tion torrent streams town trifles TUESDAY Umphraville uneasiness virtue wife wish write young
Populaire passages
Pagina 181 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Pagina 184 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Pagina 152 - That care, however, which watched his health, was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders, than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Pagina 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Pagina 109 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth in a part of the army which was...
Pagina 319 - She turned — and beheld Sir Edward. His countenance had much of its former languor ; and when he took her hand, he cast on the earth a melancholy look, and seemed unable to speak his feelings. ' Are you not well, Sir Edward ?' said Louisa, with a voice faint and broken. — ' I am ill indeed,' said he, ' but my illness is of the mind.
Pagina 165 - The Scottish dialect is our ordinary suit ; the English is used only on solemn occasions. When a Scotsman therefore writes, he does it generally in trammels. His own native original language, which he hears spoken around him, he does not make use of ; but he expresses himself in a language in some respects foreign to him, and which he has acquired by study and observation.
Pagina 266 - ... of his uncle ; but his feeling, too powerful for his prudence, often breaks through that disguise which it seems to have been his original, and ought to have continued his invariable purpose to maintain, till an opportunity should present itself of accomplishing the revenge which he meditated.
Pagina 321 - ... and to blunt, for a while, the pangs of contrition. These were deeply aggravated by the recollection of her father: a father left in his age to feel his own misfortunes and his daughter's disgrace. Sir Edward was too generous not to think of providing for Venoni.
Pagina 270 - IN books, whether moral or amusing, there are no passages more captivating, both to the writer and the reader, than those delicate strokes of sentimental morality, which refer our actions to the determination of feeling.