Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1818 |
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... Nicky , also , in a letter , dated the 22d of December , requested to be informed whether Lord Courtland ( like our great landholders ) killed his own mutton , as Miss P. M'P . insinuates in a letter to her aunt , that the servants ...
... Nicky , also , in a letter , dated the 22d of December , requested to be informed whether Lord Courtland ( like our great landholders ) killed his own mutton , as Miss P. M'P . insinuates in a letter to her aunt , that the servants ...
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... Nicky , but lent to Grizzy , to enable her to make a more distinguished figure in the gay world . " Oh ! " thought she , " what a pity this brooch is Nicky's , and not mine ; I would have given it to this charming Mrs. Fox . Indeed ...
... Nicky , but lent to Grizzy , to enable her to make a more distinguished figure in the gay world . " Oh ! " thought she , " what a pity this brooch is Nicky's , and not mine ; I would have given it to this charming Mrs. Fox . Indeed ...
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... Nicky's indignation : But then it was quite thrown away upon Nicky -she had no cabinet , and Mrs. Fox had declared that pebbles were quite lost any where but in cabinets , and it was a thou- sand pities that Nicky's broach should be ...
... Nicky's indignation : But then it was quite thrown away upon Nicky -she had no cabinet , and Mrs. Fox had declared that pebbles were quite lost any where but in cabinets , and it was a thou- sand pities that Nicky's broach should be ...
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... Nicky was here - I'm certain she would- though , to be sure , she has a great regard for it ; for it was found on the Glenfern estate , the very day my grandfather won his plea against Drimsydie ; and we always called it the lucky stone ...
... Nicky was here - I'm certain she would- though , to be sure , she has a great regard for it ; for it was found on the Glenfern estate , the very day my grandfather won his plea against Drimsydie ; and we always called it the lucky stone ...
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... Nicky was here , she would be delighted to offer - It would certainly be doing my sister Nicky the greatest favour , since you think it would be seen to so much greater advantage in your cabinet , which , for my own part , I have not ...
... Nicky was here , she would be delighted to offer - It would certainly be doing my sister Nicky the greatest favour , since you think it would be seen to so much greater advantage in your cabinet , which , for my own part , I have not ...
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Adelaide Adelaide's admiration affection assure aunt Grizzy Beech Park better Bluemits brooch certainly charms Colonel Lennox colour cousin cried Lady Emily daugh daughter dear Mary declare dinner Doctor doubt Downe Wright dress Duchess of Altamont Duke of Altamont Emily's exclaimed eyes faults feel fortune Glenfern going Grace Griz Grizzy's hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope husband idea Lady Ju Lady Juliana Lady Maclaughlan Lady Matilda Ladyship Lochmarlie look Lord Glenallan Lord Lindore lover marriage married Mary felt Mary's ment mind Miss Douglas Miss Grizzy Miss Jacky mother nature neral ness never Nicky niece occasion passed passion pleasure poor Pullens Redgill Rose Hall seemed sentiments shew shirt-buttons sigh Sir Sampson sister smile soon sort soul spirit stupid sure sweet talk taste tears tell ther there's thing thought tion turned virtue wish wonder young
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Página 54 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 181 - I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear. She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 60 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Página 94 - A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god; Affects to nod And seems to shake the spheres.
Página 239 - And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb...
Página 239 - As it slipp'd through their jaws, when their edge grew dull, As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead, When they scarce could rise from the spot where they fed; So well had they broken a lingering fast With those who had fallen for that night's repast.
Página 58 - ... full glory, either at the rising or setting of it, he would be so transported and amazed, and so admire the glory of it, that he would not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing object to behold all the other various beauties this world could present to him.
Página 175 - ... and be lord paramount over kitchen and larder. His disappointment was therefore great at finding all the solid joys of red deer and moorgame, kippered salmon and mutton hams, ' vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Página 56 - These, and many other field flowers, so perfumed the air, that I thought that very meadow like that field in Sicily, of which Diodorus speaks, where the perfumes arising from the place make all dogs that hunt in it to fall off and lose their scent.
Página 55 - ... then left me ; that he had a plentiful estate, and not a heart to think so ; that he had at this time many law-suits depending, and that they both damped his mirth, and took up so much of his time and thoughts, that he himself had not leisure to take the sweet content that I, who pretended no title to them, took in his fields...