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Pagina 8
... Miss Betsy Thoughtless , ' · · - PAGE • 176 CHAPTER VII . Richardson.- ' Clarissa Harlowe .'- ' Pamela .'- ' Sir ... Miss Burney.- ' Evelina , ' and ' Cecilia .'- Miss Edgeworth.- Belinda .'- Jane Austen . - Uses of Novels ...
... Miss Betsy Thoughtless , ' · · - PAGE • 176 CHAPTER VII . Richardson.- ' Clarissa Harlowe .'- ' Pamela .'- ' Sir ... Miss Burney.- ' Evelina , ' and ' Cecilia .'- Miss Edgeworth.- Belinda .'- Jane Austen . - Uses of Novels ...
Pagina 29
... Miss Highmore had set herself on fire , and scorched herself with the curling - irons . Upon which the poet , in answer , supposes that the accident must have happened , not from the heat of the irons , but from the love - verses she ...
... Miss Highmore had set herself on fire , and scorched herself with the curling - irons . Upon which the poet , in answer , supposes that the accident must have happened , not from the heat of the irons , but from the love - verses she ...
Pagina 34
... Miss Townsend with whom Wildgoose , the hero , falls in love ; and such is the story of Mrs. Rivers , the charm- ing wife of Mr. Rivers , as told by her husband , who has settled down with her in an old country house , and taken to ...
... Miss Townsend with whom Wildgoose , the hero , falls in love ; and such is the story of Mrs. Rivers , the charm- ing wife of Mr. Rivers , as told by her husband , who has settled down with her in an old country house , and taken to ...
Pagina 35
... Miss Betsy Thoughtless , ' of which I shall speak more particularly hereafter , we find the heroine , a young unmarried lady , receiving as a matter of course male visitors in her dressing- room while performing her toilet . At Bath ...
... Miss Betsy Thoughtless , ' of which I shall speak more particularly hereafter , we find the heroine , a young unmarried lady , receiving as a matter of course male visitors in her dressing- room while performing her toilet . At Bath ...
Pagina 36
... Miss Lydia Melford , in ' Humphry Clinker : ' " Right under the pump - room window is the king's bath - a large cistern - where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water . The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown ...
... Miss Lydia Melford , in ' Humphry Clinker : ' " Right under the pump - room window is the king's bath - a large cistern - where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water . The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown ...
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Pagina 38 - Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?
Pagina 307 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. 'My dear Mr. Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Pagina 199 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Pagina 284 - A fig for the silver rims,' cried my wife, in a passion : 'I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce.'— 'You need be under no uneasiness,' cried I, 'about selling the rims; for they are not worth six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Pagina 108 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 73 - I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's. In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club.
Pagina 122 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then...
Pagina 23 - Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Pagina 19 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Pagina 312 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.