Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1818 |
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... nature and principle ; for she thinks it is the duty of every wo- man of family to be proud , and that humi- lity is only a virtue in the canaille . Proper pride she calls it , though I rather think it ought to be pride proper , as I ...
... nature and principle ; for she thinks it is the duty of every wo- man of family to be proud , and that humi- lity is only a virtue in the canaille . Proper pride she calls it , though I rather think it ought to be pride proper , as I ...
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... nature - no such thing -the only wisdom she possesses , like the owl , is the look of wisdom , and that is the very part of it which I detest . Passions or feelings she has none ; and to love , she is an utter stranger . When , somewhat ...
... nature - no such thing -the only wisdom she possesses , like the owl , is the look of wisdom , and that is the very part of it which I detest . Passions or feelings she has none ; and to love , she is an utter stranger . When , somewhat ...
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... nature of her good friend's hopes ; " I do nothing but hope . " And she tried to check a sigh , as she thought how some of her best hopes had been already blighted by the unkindness of those whose love she had vainly strove to win . Mrs ...
... nature of her good friend's hopes ; " I do nothing but hope . " And she tried to check a sigh , as she thought how some of her best hopes had been already blighted by the unkindness of those whose love she had vainly strove to win . Mrs ...
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... nature . I appeal to yourself , whether I might not just as well have been reading one of Tully's orations to a mule all this while . Come , you must really make haste to tell your tale , for I am dying to disclose mine . Or shall I ...
... nature . I appeal to yourself , whether I might not just as well have been reading one of Tully's orations to a mule all this while . Come , you must really make haste to tell your tale , for I am dying to disclose mine . Or shall I ...
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... natural ? ex- cept his refusing to fall head in ears in love before he had time to pull his boots off . And then to have a wife recommended to him ! and all your perfections set forth , as if you had been a laundry maid : an early riser ...
... natural ? ex- cept his refusing to fall head in ears in love before he had time to pull his boots off . And then to have a wife recommended to him ! and all your perfections set forth , as if you had been a laundry maid : an early riser ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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...