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... tion , that she rejected these splendid allurements , and with more than Spartan rigidity spent her life in parsimonious obscurity . I confess , these are conjectures of my own , but I can no otherwise account for such an author ...
... tion , that she rejected these splendid allurements , and with more than Spartan rigidity spent her life in parsimonious obscurity . I confess , these are conjectures of my own , but I can no otherwise account for such an author ...
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... , which she never per- mitted me to see , caused an altera- tion in her opinions ; and I think they underwent a complete revolution about the time of the last modification of the income tax , when the humbler part of the middle 13.
... , which she never per- mitted me to see , caused an altera- tion in her opinions ; and I think they underwent a complete revolution about the time of the last modification of the income tax , when the humbler part of the middle 13.
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... tion of falsehood . In perusing the pages of Fielding , Richardson , and Goldsmith , we always feel in the com- pany of human beings ; nay , some- times among our own acquaintance . We anticipate their sentiments , we know what they ...
... tion of falsehood . In perusing the pages of Fielding , Richardson , and Goldsmith , we always feel in the com- pany of human beings ; nay , some- times among our own acquaintance . We anticipate their sentiments , we know what they ...
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... tion , or to execrate the bestial com- pendium of all imaginable depravity ? or of those , who , rather aiming to be ingenious than veracious , shew us that they care not what they establish , so they do but overthrow preconceived ...
... tion , or to execrate the bestial com- pendium of all imaginable depravity ? or of those , who , rather aiming to be ingenious than veracious , shew us that they care not what they establish , so they do but overthrow preconceived ...
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... tion as to induce him to remove her from the care of her maternal aunt , lady Selina Delamore , though he believed that lady to be a most odious charac- ter , and was convinced she would quite pervert his niece's disposition . Sir ...
... tion as to induce him to remove her from the care of her maternal aunt , lady Selina Delamore , though he believed that lady to be a most odious charac- ter , and was convinced she would quite pervert his niece's disposition . Sir ...
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Seite 222 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 255 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Seite 192 - You hate me, you despise me ! you do well ; For what I've done I hate and scorn myself. Oh, night, fall on me ! I shall blush to death.
Seite 202 - Prince! I blush to think what I have said, But fate has wrested the confession from me; Go on, and prosper in the paths of honour, Thy virtue will excuse my passion for thee, And make the Gods propitious to our love.
Seite 239 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.