MirrorT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... called the grand tour , be an advisable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of letters , wished to give me a liberal education ...
... called the grand tour , be an advisable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of letters , wished to give me a liberal education ...
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... called at an improper time , and that the hours of London ( with which I was but little acquainted ) differed from those we had been accustomed to abroad . In that belief , I went to the opera in the evening . I had not been there long ...
... called at an improper time , and that the hours of London ( with which I was but little acquainted ) differed from those we had been accustomed to abroad . In that belief , I went to the opera in the evening . I had not been there long ...
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... called home , by accounts that his father lay dangerously ill . From that time a variety of accidents had prevented our meeting . We now met as if we had parted but yesterday ; with the same freedom , the same warmth , the same glow of ...
... called home , by accounts that his father lay dangerously ill . From that time a variety of accidents had prevented our meeting . We now met as if we had parted but yesterday ; with the same freedom , the same warmth , the same glow of ...
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... called him Alexander , after M. de Villars , the noble donor : that M. de Villars was a great man . ” — “ True ; but his Christian name was Hector . ” ! _ “ Was it Hector ? then depend upon it , my horse had the same Christian name ...
... called him Alexander , after M. de Villars , the noble donor : that M. de Villars was a great man . ” — “ True ; but his Christian name was Hector . ” ! _ “ Was it Hector ? then depend upon it , my horse had the same Christian name ...
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... called for , he took off a Methodist preacher with great applause . The ladies now retired . I had fancied that in the companies of the two former days , the want of their society had deprived us of the ease and gaiety of discourse ...
... called for , he took off a Methodist preacher with great applause . The ladies now retired . I had fancied that in the companies of the two former days , the want of their society had deprived us of the ease and gaiety of discourse ...
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Page 171 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 171 - 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 248 - 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!
Page 249 - 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 139 - ... than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Page 127 - 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 302 - Edward, after being blooded, was put to bed, and tended with every possible care by his host and his family. A considerable degree of fever was the consequence of his accident ; but after some days it abated , and, in little more than a week, he was able to join in the society of Venoni and his daughter.
Page 305 - I wished, though it wounded the heart of my dearest benefactress — but I will make a severe expiation.. This moment I leave you, Louisa! I go to be wretched; but you may be happy, happy in your duty to a father, happy, it may be, in the arms of a husband, whom the possession of such a wife may teach refinement and sensibility. — I go to my native country, to...
Page 76 - In effect the civil officers of this government might be reduced to a very scanty number, were their exigency alone to determine the list of your covenanted servants, which at this time...
Page 304 - Sir Edward pressed to know the cause; after some hesitation she told it all. Her father had fixed on the son of a neighbour, rich in possessions, but rude in manners, for her husband. Against this match she had always protested as strongly as a sense of duty, and the mildness of her nature, would allow; but Venoni was obstinately bent on the match, and she was wretched from the thoughts of it — ' To marry, where one cannot love, — to marry such a man, Sir Edward !' It was an opportunity beyond...