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Pagina 9
... SHE WAS . From my own Apartment , Auguft 8 . I HAD the Honour this Evening to vifit fome Ladies , where the Subject of the Converfation was Mo- defty , which they commended as a Quality quite as be- coming in Men as in Women . I took ...
... SHE WAS . From my own Apartment , Auguft 8 . I HAD the Honour this Evening to vifit fome Ladies , where the Subject of the Converfation was Mo- defty , which they commended as a Quality quite as be- coming in Men as in Women . I took ...
Pagina 13
... She was then in her early Bloom , with an Understanding and Difcretion very little inferior to the moft experienced Matrons . She was not beholden to the Charms of her Sex , that her Company was pre- ferable to any Ofmyn could meet with ...
... She was then in her early Bloom , with an Understanding and Difcretion very little inferior to the moft experienced Matrons . She was not beholden to the Charms of her Sex , that her Company was pre- ferable to any Ofmyn could meet with ...
Pagina 14
... she did all Things ) like a Perfon too unhappy to be relieved or afflicted by the Circumftance of Place . This unexpected Refignation made Ofmyn refolve to be as obliging to her as poffible ; and if he could not pre- vail upon himself ...
... she did all Things ) like a Perfon too unhappy to be relieved or afflicted by the Circumftance of Place . This unexpected Refignation made Ofmyn refolve to be as obliging to her as poffible ; and if he could not pre- vail upon himself ...
Pagina 19
... she is his Wife ; Phillis no good one , but that he is his Miftrefs . And he has himself often faid , were he married to any one elfe , he would rather keep Laura than any Woman living ; yet allows at the fame Time , that Phillis , were ...
... she is his Wife ; Phillis no good one , but that he is his Miftrefs . And he has himself often faid , were he married to any one elfe , he would rather keep Laura than any Woman living ; yet allows at the fame Time , that Phillis , were ...
Pagina 20
... she could reclaim one that had so often enfnared others ; as it now is , it is not even in the Power of Duumvir himself to do her Juftice : For though Beauty and Merit are Things real real and independent on Tafte and Opinion , yet ...
... she could reclaim one that had so often enfnared others ; as it now is , it is not even in the Power of Duumvir himself to do her Juftice : For though Beauty and Merit are Things real real and independent on Tafte and Opinion , yet ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 286 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Pagina 241 - ... he saw two women of a larger stature than ordinary approaching towards him. One of them had a very noble air, and graceful deportment ; her...
Pagina 295 - The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
Pagina 302 - It happened, that the very next who was brought before me was one of her admirers, who was indicted upon that very head. A letter which he acknowledged to be his own hand was read, in which were the following words, " Cruel creature, I die for you.
Pagina 245 - ... first. Our passions and inclinations come over next ; and our reason surrenders itself with pleasure in the end. Thus the whole soul is insensibly, betrayed into morality, by bribing the fancy with beautiful and agreeable images of those...
Pagina 82 - ... many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations, for no reason in the world but because it is spoken extempore. For ordinary minds are wholly governed by their eyes and ears, and there is no way to come at their hearts, but by power over their imaginations.
Pagina 318 - ... and keeping down the swellings of his grief, for fear of disturbing her in her last moments ; and the wife even at that time concealing; the pains she endured, for fear of increasing his affliction.
Pagina 164 - I must confess my heart shrunk within me at the sight of these ghastly appearances : but on a sudden, the voice of the trumpet came more full upon us, so that we felt a new resolution reviving in us ; and in proportion as this resolution grew, the terrors before us seemed to vanish. Most of the company, who had swords in their hands, marched on with great spirit, and an air of defiance, up the road that was commanded by Death ; while others, who had thought and contemplation in their looks, went...
Pagina 286 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't.
Pagina 231 - Mrs. Mary is now sixteen, and would make him as fine a widow as the best of them.