The Maid, Wife, and Widow: A Tale, Volume 1Phillips, 1806 |
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... imagined I had been for- tunate enough to attach three human beings to me on my own account : I was about to suffer a most severe disappoint- ment . Adelaide , simple as nature in the first spring of the world , confessed that she felt ...
... imagined I had been for- tunate enough to attach three human beings to me on my own account : I was about to suffer a most severe disappoint- ment . Adelaide , simple as nature in the first spring of the world , confessed that she felt ...
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... imagined he was as well ac- quainted with as themselves . Here , however , they were very much des ceived , as neither Gustavus nor myself had any suspicion of the harsh measures which had been adopted . My brother was both shocked and ...
... imagined he was as well ac- quainted with as themselves . Here , however , they were very much des ceived , as neither Gustavus nor myself had any suspicion of the harsh measures which had been adopted . My brother was both shocked and ...
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... imagining she could forget me : she added , that she would convince me of the injustice I had done her , then open ... imagined . I was petrified with surprise and pleasure . I seized her passionately exclaimed , " " hand , whilst I ...
... imagining she could forget me : she added , that she would convince me of the injustice I had done her , then open ... imagined . I was petrified with surprise and pleasure . I seized her passionately exclaimed , " " hand , whilst I ...
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... imagined that I had any curiosity on the subject . When the time came , he told me of a number of stories I had heard before , some of which I had slighted as too barbarous for any thing that wore the semblance of a man . He informed me ...
... imagined that I had any curiosity on the subject . When the time came , he told me of a number of stories I had heard before , some of which I had slighted as too barbarous for any thing that wore the semblance of a man . He informed me ...
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... sur- prise , however , I heard no more of him . I rather imagined that on reflec tion he found the affair so scandalous , that he rather chose to bury it in obli- vion vion than make it notorious by an ap- peal to AND WIDOW . 165.
... sur- prise , however , I heard no more of him . I rather imagined that on reflec tion he found the affair so scandalous , that he rather chose to bury it in obli- vion vion than make it notorious by an ap- peal to AND WIDOW . 165.
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Page 249 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 248 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there...
Page 125 - » In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper, or the morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Page 124 - Where Beauty seems to dwell, nor once inquire "Where is the sanction of eternal truth, Or where the seal of undeceitful good, To save your search from folly ! Wanting these, Lo ! Beauty withers in your void embrace, And with the glittering of an idiot's toy Did Fancy mock your vows.
Page 28 - Ben mi si potria dir: — Frate, tu vai l'altrui mostrando, e non vedi il tuo fallo. Io vi rispondo che comprendo assai, or che di mente ho lucido intervallo...
Page 202 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 28 - Gli è come una gran selva, ove la via conviene a forza, a chi vi va, fallire: chi su, chi giù, chi qua, chi là travia. Per concludere in somma, io vi vo' dire: a chi in amor s'invecchia, oltr'ogni pena, si convengono i ceppi e la catena.
Page 266 - By little aftions ftriving to be great, And proud to be, and to be thought a cheat. And yet in this fo bad is his fuccefs, That as his fame improves, his rents grow...
Page 124 - The tuneful spirit; then through all our paths, Ne'er shall the sound of this devoted lyre Be wanting; whether on the rosy mead, When summer smiles, to warn the melting heart Of luxury's allurement; whether firm Against the torrent and the stubborn hill To urge bold Virtue's...
Page 123 - Thus was Beauty sent from Heaven, The lovely ministress of truth and good In this dark world : for truth and good are one, And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation.