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Pagina 16
... doubt , how far it is an eligible thing for a private gentleman , without ta- lents and inclination for public life , to spend much of his time abroad , to acquire a relish for foreign manners , and a taste for the society of a set of ...
... doubt , how far it is an eligible thing for a private gentleman , without ta- lents and inclination for public life , to spend much of his time abroad , to acquire a relish for foreign manners , and a taste for the society of a set of ...
Pagina 44
... doubt , mi " Ledi , whether it could have been matched in your " country , so justly celebrated for fine women and " horses ..... One evening , while I was in garrison " at Pont St. Esprit , I took him out to exercise . " Being in high ...
... doubt , mi " Ledi , whether it could have been matched in your " country , so justly celebrated for fine women and " horses ..... One evening , while I was in garrison " at Pont St. Esprit , I took him out to exercise . " Being in high ...
Pagina 58
... doubts of their deserving that name . These , however , are probably the effects of igno- rance , and a bookish education , in which I am very willing to be corrected from proper authority . I am , & c . MODESTUS . V SIR , No. LXV ...
... doubts of their deserving that name . These , however , are probably the effects of igno- rance , and a bookish education , in which I am very willing to be corrected from proper authority . I am , & c . MODESTUS . V SIR , No. LXV ...
Pagina 63
... doubt if they were strictly in Na- ture . Of this last sort is the celebrated scene in Richard the Third , where that artful usurper first . mollifies the resentment , and then gains upon the affections , of the unfortunate Lady Anne ...
... doubt if they were strictly in Na- ture . Of this last sort is the celebrated scene in Richard the Third , where that artful usurper first . mollifies the resentment , and then gains upon the affections , of the unfortunate Lady Anne ...
Pagina 73
... doubt , lest her sister should have the merit of her important discoveries . The only object of the mos ther seemed to be to get her girls well married . For this purpose she had trusted entirely to the ex- VOL . II . G ternal ...
... doubt , lest her sister should have the merit of her important discoveries . The only object of the mos ther seemed to be to get her girls well married . For this purpose she had trusted entirely to the ex- VOL . II . G ternal ...
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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.