Veronica PlayfairLittle, Brown,, 1910 - 319 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... laughed again , with as much mutual good understanding as if we had been friends for years . I am an old woman now , but as I think of that scene my youth comes back to me , and I can still laugh as merrily as then . 66 But where ...
... laughed again , with as much mutual good understanding as if we had been friends for years . I am an old woman now , but as I think of that scene my youth comes back to me , and I can still laugh as merrily as then . 66 But where ...
Pagina 27
... laughed . " My anger , " I said , " is like a fire of chips ; it flames hot , but dies quickly . Indeed , I think it would have died still sooner , but that I was in the wrong . You intended a kindness , and it would have been more ...
... laughed . " My anger , " I said , " is like a fire of chips ; it flames hot , but dies quickly . Indeed , I think it would have died still sooner , but that I was in the wrong . You intended a kindness , and it would have been more ...
Pagina 52
... laughed . " I beg , Madam , " he said to my mother , " that you will not allow your daughter to flout at my other offering , " and with this he drew out a small purse from his capacious pocket and held it out to my mother ; but she ...
... laughed . " I beg , Madam , " he said to my mother , " that you will not allow your daughter to flout at my other offering , " and with this he drew out a small purse from his capacious pocket and held it out to my mother ; but she ...
Pagina 55
... laughed and said : " The man- ner in which men enjoy and encourage the cen- sures of women when directed against their enemies , only to rebuke it after , puts me in mind of a voyage made by William Penn , founder , as you know , of our ...
... laughed and said : " The man- ner in which men enjoy and encourage the cen- sures of women when directed against their enemies , only to rebuke it after , puts me in mind of a voyage made by William Penn , founder , as you know , of our ...
Pagina 64
... laughed and said something kind about youth and beauty needing no rules of con- duct outside those suggested by native good breeding , and then she began to enlighten me in regard to the people whom I was to meet . The party , she said ...
... laughed and said something kind about youth and beauty needing no rules of con- duct outside those suggested by native good breeding , and then she began to enlighten me in regard to the people whom I was to meet . The party , she said ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 124 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Pagina 25 - So I dined upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Pagina 68 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.
Pagina 91 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Pagina 211 - Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Pagina 98 - LORD BOLINGBROKE TO THE THREE YAHOOS OF TWICKENHAM. JONATHAN, ALEXANDER, JOHN,* MOST EXCELLENT TRIUMVIRS OF PARNASSUS. THOUGH you are probably very indifferent where I am, or what I am doing ; yet I resolve to believe the contrary. I persuade myself, that you have sent at least fifteen times within this fortnight to Dawley farm.f and that you are extremely mortified at my long silence.
Pagina 107 - I am in my own farm," says he, "and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me again.
Pagina 125 - When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a certain sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and brocade, and for aught I know, would equally become them.
Pagina 124 - But the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours, is to vex the world, rather than divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen without reading.
Pagina 3 - A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky proclaim it a Hunting Morning...