Thaddeus of Warsaw, Volume 3

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806

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Page 50 - she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief.
Page 39 - Tinemouth tried to display in every possible light the enormity of giving encouragement to such an attachment, and ended with urging the consideration of her duty to Heaven. Of this argument Lady Sara knew little. She never reflected on the nature of her Creator ; though she sometimes went to church, repeated the prayers, without being conscious of their spirit; and when the coughing, sneezing, and blowing of noses, which commonly accompany the text, subsided, she generally called up the remembrance...
Page 113 - This eulogy, sir," said Mary, " affords me real pleasure. May I know the name of the gentleman with whom I have the honour to converse ? " " My name is Blackmore," returned he. " Dr. Blackmore ? "
Page 72 - ... suppertable. At this most sociable repast of the whole day, cheerfulness seemed again to disperse the gloom, which threatened the circle. Thaddeus set the example. His unrestrained and elegant conversation, acquired new pathos, from the anguish, that was driven back to his heart; like the beds of water, which infuse their own nature with the current, his hidden grief imparted an undescribable interest and charm, to all his sentiments and actions.
Page 41 - She had no conception, or, at best, a faint one, that a breach of the marriage-vow could be an outrage on the laws of Heaven. The word Sin has been gradually banished the oligarchy of fashion, from the hour in which Charles the Second and his profligate court trod down piety with hypocrisy — to this day, when the new philosophy, having accomplished its total outlawry...

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