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Pagina viii
... libertine rea- Lessons to the sex . sons . LVIII . From the same . They arrive at Mrs. Sinclair's . Sally Martin and Polly Horton set upon him . He wavers in his good purposes . Dorcas Wykes proposed , and re- luctantly accepted for a ...
... libertine rea- Lessons to the sex . sons . LVIII . From the same . They arrive at Mrs. Sinclair's . Sally Martin and Polly Horton set upon him . He wavers in his good purposes . Dorcas Wykes proposed , and re- luctantly accepted for a ...
Pagina 60
... libertine -Who then would be trying a new and worse cha- racter ? And then Mrs. Greme is a pious matron , and would not have been biassed against the truth on any consideration . She used formerly , while there were any hopes of my ...
... libertine -Who then would be trying a new and worse cha- racter ? And then Mrs. Greme is a pious matron , and would not have been biassed against the truth on any consideration . She used formerly , while there were any hopes of my ...
Pagina 86
... Libertines are nicer , if at all nice , than other men . They seldom meet with the stand of virtue in the women whom they attempt . And by the frailty of those they have triumphed over , they judge of all the rest . Im- portunity and ...
... Libertines are nicer , if at all nice , than other men . They seldom meet with the stand of virtue in the women whom they attempt . And by the frailty of those they have triumphed over , they judge of all the rest . Im- portunity and ...
Pagina 95
... libertine maxims . And what an immense pleasure to a marriage- hater , what rapture to thought , to be able to pre- vail upon such a woman as Miss Clarissa Harlowe to live with him without real change of name ! But if she resist - if ...
... libertine maxims . And what an immense pleasure to a marriage- hater , what rapture to thought , to be able to pre- vail upon such a woman as Miss Clarissa Harlowe to live with him without real change of name ! But if she resist - if ...
Pagina 121
... libertine companions , in pursu- ance of Lord Shaftesbury's test , ( which is a part of the rake's creed , and what I may call the whetstone of infidelity ) endeavoured to turn the sacred sub- ject into ridicule . On this very account I ...
... libertine companions , in pursu- ance of Lord Shaftesbury's test , ( which is a part of the rake's creed , and what I may call the whetstone of infidelity ) endeavoured to turn the sacred sub- ject into ridicule . On this very account I ...
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Pagina 372 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Pagina 124 - Habitual evils change not on a sudden: But many days must pass, and many sorrows; Conscious remorse and anguish must be felt, To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, And work a second nature in the soul, Ere Virtue can resume the place she lost: 'Tis else dissimulation — He had often read these lines, he said; but never tasted them before.
Pagina 312 - The wise and active conquer difficulties By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th
Pagina 179 - There was, I believe, a kind of phrensy in my manner, which threw her into a panic, like that of Semele perhaps, when the Thunderer, in all his majesty, surrounded with ten thousand celestial burning-glasses, was about to scorch her into a cinder.
Pagina 364 - Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face.