Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1818 |
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... things , and was thoroughly ac- quainted with human 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 ...
... things , and was thoroughly ac- quainted with human 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 ...
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... thing being possible ; for it is not merely the jealous whose happi- ness is the sport of trifles light as air - eve- ry evil thought , every unamiable feeling , bears about with it the bane of that enjoy- ment after which it vainly ...
... thing being possible ; for it is not merely the jealous whose happi- ness is the sport of trifles light as air - eve- ry evil thought , every unamiable feeling , bears about with it the bane of that enjoy- ment after which it vainly ...
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... thing half so brilliant before -it seemed quite like the effect of inspira- tion . " " But I cannot conceive , even were it as you say , why my mother should be so dis- pleased about it She surely cannot sup- pose me so silly , as to be ...
... thing half so brilliant before -it seemed quite like the effect of inspira- tion . " " But I cannot conceive , even were it as you say , why my mother should be so dis- pleased about it She surely cannot sup- pose me so silly , as to be ...
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... things as prejudice , narrow - mindedness , envy , ha tred , and malice , your ignorance is bliss , and you had better remain in it . But you may take my word for one thing , and that is , that ' tis a much wiser thing to resist ty ...
... things as prejudice , narrow - mindedness , envy , ha tred , and malice , your ignorance is bliss , and you had better remain in it . But you may take my word for one thing , and that is , that ' tis a much wiser thing to resist ty ...
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... thing and every thing but love ! Prudence , I thought , had been the word with you proper ladies — a prudent marriage ! Come , confess , is not that the climax of virtue in the creed of your school ? " I never learnt the creed of any ...
... thing and every thing but love ! Prudence , I thought , had been the word with you proper ladies — a prudent marriage ! Come , confess , is not that the climax of virtue in the creed of your school ? " I never learnt the creed of any ...
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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...