Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1807, Volumen3Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 |
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... expect me to be punctual , you must give ample licence for dulness and absurdity , besides a full allowance to my happy talent of digres- sion , my rare felicity in parenthesis , and my peculiar knack at circumlocution . Do not let the ...
... expect me to be punctual , you must give ample licence for dulness and absurdity , besides a full allowance to my happy talent of digres- sion , my rare felicity in parenthesis , and my peculiar knack at circumlocution . Do not let the ...
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... your comments . * C. treats his wife worse , if possible , than you could expect . " Tis miserable to see so much innocence , understanding , and good humour , humour , sacrificed to such a strange com- pound of 42 LETTERS FROM.
... your comments . * C. treats his wife worse , if possible , than you could expect . " Tis miserable to see so much innocence , understanding , and good humour , humour , sacrificed to such a strange com- pound of 42 LETTERS FROM.
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... imperfection in a character you love and venerate . It is one of the severest trials we can encounter , to be deceived where we expect so much . Old age and solitude , 3 solitude , or , what is worse than solitude , THE MOUNTAINS . 61.
... imperfection in a character you love and venerate . It is one of the severest trials we can encounter , to be deceived where we expect so much . Old age and solitude , 3 solitude , or , what is worse than solitude , THE MOUNTAINS . 61.
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... and benevolence that appear in her disposition.- -Let me know when we are to expect you . It must be after the 6th of August ; we shall then be solemnly en- 4 gaged . gaged * . This could not be sooner , for 74 LETTERS FROM.
... and benevolence that appear in her disposition.- -Let me know when we are to expect you . It must be after the 6th of August ; we shall then be solemnly en- 4 gaged . gaged * . This could not be sooner , for 74 LETTERS FROM.
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... expect should arrest my pen ; or perhaps finally close the scene . All spring I meant to write , but the perturbation of my mind , and the wearing anguish of suspense , put it out of my power . I can- not detail , but shall sketch as ...
... expect should arrest my pen ; or perhaps finally close the scene . All spring I meant to write , but the perturbation of my mind , and the wearing anguish of suspense , put it out of my power . I can- not detail , but shall sketch as ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aberdeenshire Adieu admire affection affectionate amiable amidst amusement anguish ANNE GRANT anxiety April 11 attention beauty beloved blessings BOATH Bristol Charlotte charmed cheerful choly comfort consolation cordial cottage DEAR FRIEND DEAR HELEN DEAR MADAM death delighted Divine Dunchattan Dunkeld ease Edinburgh elegance endeared enjoy enjoyment esteem excellent exer expect fancy Farewell fear feel felicity friendship fuge give GLASGOW gloom happy hear heart Highland hope imagination indulge JORDAN HILL journey kind lady Laggan lament leisure LETTER live look MACINTOSH manner melan mind MISS DUNBAR mountains mourn nature never Ossian Ourry painful pathy peace pity pleased pleasure PLYMPTON poems poor racter recollection relish Scotland shew short simplicity soft soothe sorrow soul spirit Stirlingshire stream suffer superior sure sweet sympathy taste tell tender thing thou thought tion tranquillity wish wonder Woodend worthy write young
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Página 31 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 35 - ... of late a great inclination to be an indulgent landlord, and very liberal to the poor, of which I could relate various instances, more tender and interesting than flashy or ostentatious. His heart and temper were originally good. His religious principles were, I fear, unfixed and fluctuating; but the primary cause that so much genius, taste, benevolence, and prosperity, did not produce or diffuse more happiness, was his living a stranger to the comforts of domestic life, from which unhappy connexions...
Página 124 - O, WERT thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee. Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a'.
Página 161 - Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow From haughty Gallia torn, And sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn That wept her bleeding Love, and princely Clare. And Anjou's heroine, and the paler rose, The rival of her crown and of her woes, And either Henry there, The murder'd saint, and the majestic lord, That broke the bonds of Rome.
Página 33 - He felt the approaches of death, and hoped no relief from medicine, though his life was not such, as one should like to look back on at that awful period. Indeed whose is ? It pleased the Almighty to render his last scene most affecting and exemplary. He died last Tuesday evening; and, from the minute he was confined till a very little before he expired, never ceased imploring the divine mercy in the most earnest and pathetic manner.
Página 34 - ... on at that awful period. Indeed, whose is ? It pleased the Almighty to render his last scene most affecting and exemplary. He died last Tuesday evening; and from the minute he was confined till a very little before he expired, never ceased imploring the divine mercy in the most earnest and pathetic manner. People about him were overawed and melted by the fervour and bitterness of his penitence. He frequently and earnestly entreated the prayers of good serious people of the lower class who were...
Página 33 - Finding some inward symptoms of his approaching dissolution, he sent for a consultation, the result of which arrived the day after his confinement. He was perfectly sensible and collected, yet refused to take any thing prescribed to him to the last, and that on this principle, that his time was come, and it did not avail. He felt the approaches of death, and hoped no relief from medicine, though his life was not such as one should like to look back on at that awful period. Indeed, whose is ? It pleased...
Página 25 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Página 125 - And wear thou this' — she solemn said, And bound the Holly round my head : The polish'd leaves, and berries red, Did rustling play; And, like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Página 35 - ... and slaves to designing housekeepers. Such was poor James, who certainly was worthy of a better fate. His death, and the circumstances of it, have impressed my mind in a manner I could not have believed. I think we are somehow slu-unk, and our consequence diminished, by losing the only person of eminence among us.