The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volume 2J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... ness rendered it necessary ; and , though Emilia could not but observe that the manner in which he passed his time there , in adding to the beauties of his place , and in an easy intercourse with a few neighbours , was highly agreeable ...
... ness rendered it necessary ; and , though Emilia could not but observe that the manner in which he passed his time there , in adding to the beauties of his place , and in an easy intercourse with a few neighbours , was highly agreeable ...
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... ness of his original seemed to have been forgotten by most people , and especially by himself . Those ridiculous stories , which excited mirth when I first heard them , afterwards afforded matter for much serious reflection . It is ...
... ness of his original seemed to have been forgotten by most people , and especially by himself . Those ridiculous stories , which excited mirth when I first heard them , afterwards afforded matter for much serious reflection . It is ...
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... ness approaching to timidity , which forms its most amiable feature , makes it stand in need of assistance . That support and assistance Emily had received in the completest manner from her father . What an alteration now ! Instead of ...
... ness approaching to timidity , which forms its most amiable feature , makes it stand in need of assistance . That support and assistance Emily had received in the completest manner from her father . What an alteration now ! Instead of ...
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... ness and a sweetness in her whole deportment , joined with an elegance of manners , that could not fail to please every beholder . I observed , with pleasure , my brother's strong attachment to her , which , if possible , seemed daily ...
... ness and a sweetness in her whole deportment , joined with an elegance of manners , that could not fail to please every beholder . I observed , with pleasure , my brother's strong attachment to her , which , if possible , seemed daily ...
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... ness and sensibility of temper , which was diffused upon her countenance . I rejoiced at that rank and C fortune of which I was possessed , as giving me 62 67 . THE MIRROR . Of romancing in conversation-Anec- dotes of a French company ...
... ness and sensibility of temper , which was diffused upon her countenance . I rejoiced at that rank and C fortune of which I was possessed , as giving me 62 67 . THE MIRROR . Of romancing in conversation-Anec- dotes of a French company ...
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Page 266 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
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Page 95 - Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe, Where, round some mouldering tower, pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. Sudden you mount, you beckon from the skies ; Clouds interpose, waves roar, and winds arise.
Page 177 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Page 180 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 261 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
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Page 134 - 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 impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 323 - if Louisa will accept of it, may sometimes put her in mind of him who once offended, who can never cease to adore her. She may look on it, perhaps, after the original is no more ; when this heart shall have forgot to love, and cease to be wretched.