The Complete Novels: The history of Sir Charles GrandisonW. Heinemann, 1902 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 234 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Pagina 161 - Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won...
Pagina 244 - minuter discriminations," a good example being the following treatment of Sir Charles's alterations at Grandison Hall: He has a great taste . . . yet not an expensive one; for he studies situation and convenience, and pretends not to level hills, or to force and distort nature; but to help it, as he finds it, without letting art be seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it.
Pagina 168 - Charles afterwards addressed himself to me jointly with his sisters. I see, with great pleasure, said he, the happy understanding that there is between you three ladies : it is a demonstration, to me, of surpassing goodness in you all. To express myself in the words of an ingenious man, to whose works your sex, and if yours, ours, are more obliged, than to those of any single man in the British world, ' Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Pagina 124 - I saw him, all my disgusts were over. After the Anderson, the Danby, the Lord W affairs, he appeared to me in a much more shining light than an hero would have done, returning in a triumphal car, covered with laurels, and dragging captive princes at his wheels. How much more glorious a character is that of the friend of mankind, than that of the conqueror of nations ! He told me, that he paid his compliments yesterday to Mr.