The History of Sir George Ellison, Volume 1University Press of Kentucky, 1766 - Fiction |
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... pain at her desertion in October 1741 helps to explain a lifelong motivation for her writing : " The love of writing you see , enters into me as soon as you go out of the house ; while you are with me I have all I desire , content is ...
... pain at her desertion in October 1741 helps to explain a lifelong motivation for her writing : " The love of writing you see , enters into me as soon as you go out of the house ; while you are with me I have all I desire , content is ...
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... pains with the arrangement of their home . In Batheaston Scott and Lady Barbara put their schemes into a regular system so that when Montagu visited them in 1755 she thought ( knowing the history of the idea ) that the household ...
... pains with the arrangement of their home . In Batheaston Scott and Lady Barbara put their schemes into a regular system so that when Montagu visited them in 1755 she thought ( knowing the history of the idea ) that the household ...
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... painful arthritis that sometimes prevented her even turning in bed , in addition to her headaches , was in best health in the country . For a period in 1760 and 1761 Scott probably hoped to raise enough money to support two ...
... painful arthritis that sometimes prevented her even turning in bed , in addition to her headaches , was in best health in the country . For a period in 1760 and 1761 Scott probably hoped to raise enough money to support two ...
Page xxvii
... pains to find a proper gardener who could also protect " the virgins . " She stocked the poultry yard from Sandleford and sent other livestock . As she loved eatable ice , she begged that the ice house be furnished with care . After ...
... pains to find a proper gardener who could also protect " the virgins . " She stocked the poultry yard from Sandleford and sent other livestock . As she loved eatable ice , she begged that the ice house be furnished with care . After ...
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Page xxxviii - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page xx - In narratives where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Page xix - It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.