Veronica PlayfairLittle, Brown,, 1910 - 319 pagina's |
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... MOTHER • PAGE I 20 • 35 49 64 VII . WHICH INTRODUCES A NEW FRIEND AND AN OLD ONE · VIII . CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONSE- QUENCES OF MY VANITY 83 103 · 123 IX . WHICH TREATS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF MY LIFE . X. WHICH TREATS ...
... MOTHER • PAGE I 20 • 35 49 64 VII . WHICH INTRODUCES A NEW FRIEND AND AN OLD ONE · VIII . CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONSE- QUENCES OF MY VANITY 83 103 · 123 IX . WHICH TREATS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF MY LIFE . X. WHICH TREATS ...
Pagina 1
... mother had consented that I should climb the hill to view the gathering . I rode an old gray pony , and I wore a riding habit made over from one of my mother's ; but it did not then occur to me that I should cut a sorry figure among the ...
... mother had consented that I should climb the hill to view the gathering . I rode an old gray pony , and I wore a riding habit made over from one of my mother's ; but it did not then occur to me that I should cut a sorry figure among the ...
Pagina 4
... mother's command rode behind me on his clumsy cob , and by my insistence rode far behind , " John , how much would you give to be a girl , eighteen years old , and a — well , never mind about that , we ' ll say merely a girl of eighteen ...
... mother's command rode behind me on his clumsy cob , and by my insistence rode far behind , " John , how much would you give to be a girl , eighteen years old , and a — well , never mind about that , we ' ll say merely a girl of eighteen ...
Pagina 5
... mother to come quietly home as soon as I had witnessed the " meet " ; but the sound of the hunting horn stirred some- thing in my blood and set me wild to be off with the rest . A glimpse of red on an opposite hillside con- veyed the ...
... mother to come quietly home as soon as I had witnessed the " meet " ; but the sound of the hunting horn stirred some- thing in my blood and set me wild to be off with the rest . A glimpse of red on an opposite hillside con- veyed the ...
Pagina 11
... mother , my spirits fell rapidly . I began to realize the impropriety of my conduct , to reflect on my abuse of this , the first liberty which had been granted me , and above all to dwell with remorse upon my broken promise . Seeing ...
... mother , my spirits fell rapidly . I began to realize the impropriety of my conduct , to reflect on my abuse of this , the first liberty which had been granted me , and above all to dwell with remorse upon my broken promise . Seeing ...
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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...