Marriage: A Novel ...W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1819 |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ? except his refusing to fall head and 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 ? except his refusing to fall head and 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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Página 54 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews 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 shews you have your closes, And all must die.
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 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 243 - Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Página 247 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Página 54 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! 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 161 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Página 239 - As it slipped 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 233 - Teaching we learn ; and giving we retain The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot. Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine; Brightens for ornament, and whets for use.
Página 175 - I endeavoured to approach it the farther it seemed to recede, till at last it vanished altogether, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving not a wreck behind.