The Mirror: A Periodical Paper, Pub. at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volume 3W. Creech, Edinburgh, and W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, 1781 |
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... myself , that , from the friendly footing on which I stood with my neighbours , I might be of con- fiderable fervice to him . This , indeed , he is extremely ready to acknowledge , though he has never yet found an opportunity of return ...
... myself , that , from the friendly footing on which I stood with my neighbours , I might be of con- fiderable fervice to him . This , indeed , he is extremely ready to acknowledge , though he has never yet found an opportunity of return ...
Page 57
... myself , and the ridicule . of my former companions . Of companions , indeed , I was now altogether deprived . I was too confiderable a perfon to afsociate with those in whose sports and amusements I had formerly been fo happy to share ...
... myself , and the ridicule . of my former companions . Of companions , indeed , I was now altogether deprived . I was too confiderable a perfon to afsociate with those in whose sports and amusements I had formerly been fo happy to share ...
Page 58
... myself generous when I bestowed any trifle beyond it .. While my mind was thus encouraged in perverfion , the culture of my body was little less preposterous . The freedom and ex- ercife , which formerly bestowed health and vigour , I ...
... myself generous when I bestowed any trifle beyond it .. While my mind was thus encouraged in perverfion , the culture of my body was little less preposterous . The freedom and ex- ercife , which formerly bestowed health and vigour , I ...
Page 59
... myself to a Lord who was to be of the party there ; I was walked over hedge and ditch , in order to captivate a country - squire of a very large estate in our neighbourhood ; and I was once obliged to hazard my neck , that I might go ...
... myself to a Lord who was to be of the party there ; I was walked over hedge and ditch , in order to captivate a country - squire of a very large estate in our neighbourhood ; and I was once obliged to hazard my neck , that I might go ...
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... myself we shall be able to discover that the reverfe is true , and that a strong spirit of gratitude has appeared on all occafions where it was due , though , in dif- ferent ages and countries , it has been expreff- ed in a different ...
... myself we shall be able to discover that the reverfe is true , and that a strong spirit of gratitude has appeared on all occafions where it was due , though , in dif- ferent ages and countries , it has been expreff- ed in a different ...
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Page 332 - Edward's whole tenderness and attention were called forth to mitigate her grief; and, after its first transports had subsided, he carried her to London, in hopes that objects new to her, and commonly attractive to all, might contribute to remove it. With a man possessed of feelings like Sir Edward's, the affliction of Louisa gave a certain respect to his attentions.