Tales and Novels, Volumes 13-14J. & J. Harper, 1834 - Children's stories |
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... give me any proofs in her favour , I shall pay them all due attention . In the mean time I have given you my opinion of those ladies who place themselves in the most perilous situations , and then ex- pect you to believe them safe ...
... give me any proofs in her favour , I shall pay them all due attention . In the mean time I have given you my opinion of those ladies who place themselves in the most perilous situations , and then ex- pect you to believe them safe ...
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... give you pain . However , though you will think me imprudent , I am certain you would rather that I were imprudent than unjust . I have defended Olivia from what I believe to be unmerited censure ; I have invited her to my house ; she ...
... give you pain . However , though you will think me imprudent , I am certain you would rather that I were imprudent than unjust . I have defended Olivia from what I believe to be unmerited censure ; I have invited her to my house ; she ...
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... give you a plan and elevation of this castle . Nay , I doubt not but I could stand an examination in the catalogue of the pictures , or the inventory of the furniture . You , Helen ! -you who could not remember the colour of Lady N's ...
... give you a plan and elevation of this castle . Nay , I doubt not but I could stand an examination in the catalogue of the pictures , or the inventory of the furniture . You , Helen ! -you who could not remember the colour of Lady N's ...
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... give , must expect none . O divine sensibility , defend me from this isolation of the heart !. All thy nameless sorrows , all thy heart - rending tortures , would I a thou- sand times rather endure . Leonora's selfishness breaks out ...
... give , must expect none . O divine sensibility , defend me from this isolation of the heart !. All thy nameless sorrows , all thy heart - rending tortures , would I a thou- sand times rather endure . Leonora's selfishness breaks out ...
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... Give me leave to ask why you are so violently interested upon this occasion ? Do you envy France this blessing ? Do you wish that English hus- bands and wives should have the power of divorcing each other at pleasure for incompatibility ...
... Give me leave to ask why you are so violently interested upon this occasion ? Do you envy France this blessing ? Do you wish that English hus- bands and wives should have the power of divorcing each other at pleasure for incompatibility ...
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Page 96 - In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
Page 225 - Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage: Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please.
Page 205 - If he had been warmly in love, he would not so easily have given up hope. ' None, without hope, e'er loved the brightest fair ; But Love can hope, where Reason should despair.' That, I think, is perfectly true,
Page 97 - Be she meeker, kinder, than fhe turtle-dove or pelican : If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love? Or, her well-deservings known, Make me quite forget mine own? Be she with that goodness blest Which may merit name of Best; If she be not such to me, What care I how good she be?
Page 169 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest,
Page 11 - Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Page 220 - Ask a northern Indian, says a traveller who has lately visited them, ask a northern Indian what is beauty? and he will answer, a broad flat face, small eyes, high cheek bones, three or four broad black lines across each cheek, a low forehead, a large broad chin, a clumsy hook nose, &c. These beauties are greatly heightened, or at least rendered more valuable, when the possessor is capable of dressing all kinds of skins, converting them into the different parts...
Page 218 - I dread that she should acquire, even from the enchanting eloquence of Rousseau, the fatal idea, that cunning and address are the natural resources of her sex ; that coquetry is necessary to attract, and dissimulation to preserve, the heart of man.
Page 194 - Coxe tells us, that certain Russian ladies split their pearls, in order to make a greater display of finery. The pleasure of being admired for wit or erudition, I cannot exactly measure in a female mind ; but state it to be as delightful as you can imagine it to be, there are evils attendant upon it, which, in the estimation of a prudent father, may overbalance the good. The intoxicating effect of wit upon the brain has been well remarked by a poet, who was a friend to the fair sex ; and too many...