Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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... nature , and be happy with dignity , or prosperous ( if prosperous ) without losing our virtue . Ambition is indeed a great , and , under due regu- lation , a noble passion ; but , for the most part , it is interminable . Few , like you ...
... nature , and be happy with dignity , or prosperous ( if prosperous ) without losing our virtue . Ambition is indeed a great , and , under due regu- lation , a noble passion ; but , for the most part , it is interminable . Few , like you ...
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... themselves , as God and nature intended . them to do , its end will be answered . I am , Sir , With unfeigned esteem , Your very faithful servant , THE AUTHOR . 1 THE EDITOR'S PREFACE . THE world would be little AUTHOR'S Preface . vii.
... themselves , as God and nature intended . them to do , its end will be answered . I am , Sir , With unfeigned esteem , Your very faithful servant , THE AUTHOR . 1 THE EDITOR'S PREFACE . THE world would be little AUTHOR'S Preface . vii.
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... nature , make him an object of sincere regard . But is the work then not a fiction ? Were there ever such persons as Tremaine and his friends ? such conversations as are here related ? and such places as Woodington , Evelyn Hall , or St ...
... nature , make him an object of sincere regard . But is the work then not a fiction ? Were there ever such persons as Tremaine and his friends ? such conversations as are here related ? and such places as Woodington , Evelyn Hall , or St ...
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... nature , and could live up to its dignity . But to do this he must do as I have done ; -retire from the forwardness of upstart impertinence , or the caprice of those whom we may have most loved and trusted . " A volume of Shaftesbury ...
... nature , and could live up to its dignity . But to do this he must do as I have done ; -retire from the forwardness of upstart impertinence , or the caprice of those whom we may have most loved and trusted . " A volume of Shaftesbury ...
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... natural or early acquired fastidiousness : having , even as a younger brother , forbidden much mixture with any other . Being the younger son of a younger brother , he was designed , having much quickness of parts , for a learned ...
... natural or early acquired fastidiousness : having , even as a younger brother , forbidden much mixture with any other . Being the younger son of a younger brother , he was designed , having much quickness of parts , for a learned ...
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Anne's Hill answered Careless answered Evelyn answered Tremaine asked Tremaine beautiful Belford Belmont Belson better breakfast called CHAP charming confess continued Evelyn conversation court cried Tremaine daughter dinner Doctor Eugenia Evelyn Hall exclaimed Tremaine eyes father feeling felt fortune garden gave gentleman Georgina give happy heart honour horse interest Jack Jack's lady laugh least leisure Les Ormes less live Lord Madame de Staël maine manner Mary ment mind Miss Evelyn Monson morning mother nature neighbour ness never Northamptonshire observed Tremaine party perceiving perhaps person philosopher pleased pleasure pray Qui Tam quizzed racter recollect refined replied Evelyn replied Tremaine retirement returned Evelyn ride Ryecroft scenes seemed SHAKSPEARE shew Sir Marmaduke smiled solitude sort Squire suppose sure sweet syllabub taste tell thing thou thought tion Tremaine's truth Vellum walk Whig wish wonder Woodington Yorkshire young
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Página 299 - I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Página 313 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 18 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...
Página 313 - ... silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which "they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Página 220 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 197 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 84 - IN that soft season, when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers; When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray; As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest, And love itself was banish'd from my breast, (What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer slumbers spread their golden wings) A train of phantoms in wild order rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose.
Página 286 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 216 - His grace retired to Claremont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty he affected to turn sportsman ; but getting wet in his feet, he hurried back to London in a fright, and his country was once more blessed with his assistance.
Página 216 - This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.