Select British Classics, Volumen32J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... late , have been cultivated so much , and which , by some , have been thought the most essential of all acquirements . Soon after my twentieth year my father died , leav- ing me possessed of a family estate of a thousand pounds a - year ...
... late , have been cultivated so much , and which , by some , have been thought the most essential of all acquirements . Soon after my twentieth year my father died , leav- ing me possessed of a family estate of a thousand pounds a - year ...
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... equally un- " favourable and unjust . I know , from experience , " that nowhere are to be found men of more agree . " able conversation , or women more amiable and " respectable . Your late disappointment , in the " 22 THE MIRROR .
... equally un- " favourable and unjust . I know , from experience , " that nowhere are to be found men of more agree . " able conversation , or women more amiable and " respectable . Your late disappointment , in the " 22 THE MIRROR .
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" respectable . Your late disappointment , in the " reception you met with from your foreign friends , " proceeds from a mistake not uncommon , from " confounding that companionship , so apt to produce " a temporary union among young ...
" respectable . Your late disappointment , in the " reception you met with from your foreign friends , " proceeds from a mistake not uncommon , from " confounding that companionship , so apt to produce " a temporary union among young ...
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No. LXI . TUESDAY , DECEMBER 7 . DURING the late intermission of my labours , I paid a visit of some weeks to my friend Mr. Um- phraville , whose benevolence and worth never fail to give me the highest pleasure , a pleasure not lessened ...
No. LXI . TUESDAY , DECEMBER 7 . DURING the late intermission of my labours , I paid a visit of some weeks to my friend Mr. Um- phraville , whose benevolence and worth never fail to give me the highest pleasure , a pleasure not lessened ...
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... however , was soon put an end to by the introduction of cards , when I found a perfect equality of understanding and of importance . At length supper was announced at a very late hour , and with it entered 56 THE MIRROR .
... however , was soon put an end to by the introduction of cards , when I found a perfect equality of understanding and of importance . At length supper was announced at a very late hour , and with it entered 56 THE MIRROR .
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance acquired admiration Æsop affections agreeable amidst amusements Antonio appearance attended awake battle of Culloden behaviour bestowed called character circumstances companions conduct conversation Daniel Higgs death dinner dreams Duke of Cumberland elegant Emilia endeavoured engaged equally fashion father favour feelings Figure-making flattered Flint fortune French frequently friends gentleman George Manly give happy heard honour humour indulge JANUARY 22 Jemmy ladies learned lived lively colours look manner marriage melancholy Melfort ment mind Mirror Miss Juliana nature neighbour never nonsense verses object obliged observed occasion opinion passions perhaps persons pleasure racter readers received remarkable satire of Juvenal SATURDAY scenes Scotland seemed sensible sentiment shew sister situation society sometimes soon sort spirit taste Tatler temper thing thought tion torrent streams town trifles TUESDAY Umphraville uneasiness virtue wife wish write young
Pasajes populares
Página 181 - 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.
Página 184 - 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; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Página 152 - That care, however, which watched his health, was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders, 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.
Página 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.
Página 109 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth in a part of the army which was...
Página 319 - She turned — and beheld Sir Edward. His countenance had much of its former languor ; and when he took her hand, he cast on the earth a melancholy look, and seemed unable to speak his feelings. ' Are you not well, Sir Edward ?' said Louisa, with a voice faint and broken. — ' I am ill indeed,' said he, ' but my illness is of the mind.
Página 165 - The Scottish dialect is our ordinary suit ; the English is used only on solemn occasions. When a Scotsman therefore writes, he does it generally in trammels. His own native original language, which he hears spoken around him, he does not make use of ; but he expresses himself in a language in some respects foreign to him, and which he has acquired by study and observation.
Página 266 - ... of his uncle ; but his feeling, too powerful for his prudence, often breaks through that disguise which it seems to have been his original, and ought to have continued his invariable purpose to maintain, till an opportunity should present itself of accomplishing the revenge which he meditated.
Página 321 - ... and to blunt, for a while, the pangs of contrition. These were deeply aggravated by the recollection of her father: a father left in his age to feel his own misfortunes and his daughter's disgrace. Sir Edward was too generous not to think of providing for Venoni.
Página 270 - IN books, whether moral or amusing, there are no passages more captivating, both to the writer and the reader, than those delicate strokes of sentimental morality, which refer our actions to the determination of feeling.