Love and madness, a story too true, in a series of letters between parties, whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less known, or less lamentedG. Kearsley, 1780 - 296 páginas |
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... once more on plain ground again with my M. ! To - morrow , about eleven , I'll be with you- but , let me find you in your riding drefs , and your mare ready . I have laid a plan , to which neither honour nor delicacy ( and I always ...
... once more on plain ground again with my M. ! To - morrow , about eleven , I'll be with you- but , let me find you in your riding drefs , and your mare ready . I have laid a plan , to which neither honour nor delicacy ( and I always ...
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sir Herbert Croft (5th bart.) leaft objection . This once , trüft to me - I'll explain all to - morrow . Pray be ready , in your riding - drefs ! Need I add , in that you know I think becomes you moft ? No - Love would have whispered ...
sir Herbert Croft (5th bart.) leaft objection . This once , trüft to me - I'll explain all to - morrow . Pray be ready , in your riding - drefs ! Need I add , in that you know I think becomes you moft ? No - Love would have whispered ...
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... once faid a nearer acquaintance would make me change my opinion of you . It has , I have changed my opinion . The more I know you , the more chastely I think of you . Notwithstanding last night ( what a night ! ) , and our first too , I ...
... once faid a nearer acquaintance would make me change my opinion of you . It has , I have changed my opinion . The more I know you , the more chastely I think of you . Notwithstanding last night ( what a night ! ) , and our first too , I ...
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... know a great deal of him ; and with cer- tainty . His heart is certainly not bad . His abilities are as certainly not equal to what he once confeffes to have thought them ; per- haps haps they are fuperior to the opinion he now en- [ 78 ]
... know a great deal of him ; and with cer- tainty . His heart is certainly not bad . His abilities are as certainly not equal to what he once confeffes to have thought them ; per- haps haps they are fuperior to the opinion he now en- [ 78 ]
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... once by the difa- greeable afpect of every thing around me , and the more difa- greeable scene to which I have been witness . Something too I have to tell you of Count Alberti . You remember him one of the gayeft , most agreeable ...
... once by the difa- greeable afpect of every thing around me , and the more difa- greeable scene to which I have been witness . Something too I have to tell you of Count Alberti . You remember him one of the gayeft , most agreeable ...
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Página 218 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Página x - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 71 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.
Página 17 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear...
Página 29 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 71 - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing; but if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour asked...
Página 85 - ... their appetites in a short time, and commonly in about two years expire, from a total contraction of all the joints of the body. In this horrid...
Página 226 - My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed All under the willow tree. Black his hair as the winter night, White his skin as the summer snow, Red his face as the morning light; Cold he lies in the grave below. My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree.
Página 26 - I'll rant as well as thou. Queen. This is mere madness : And thus a while the fit will work on him ; Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclosed. His silence will sit drooping.
Página 28 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.