Eighteenth Century EssaysK. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1882 - 284 páginas |
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... told me she hoped , as ' I was a gentleman , I would be employed no more to ' trouble her , who had never offended me ; but would ' be so much the gentleman's friend as to dissuade ' him from a pursuit which he could never succeed in ...
... told me she hoped , as ' I was a gentleman , I would be employed no more to ' trouble her , who had never offended me ; but would ' be so much the gentleman's friend as to dissuade ' him from a pursuit which he could never succeed in ...
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... on in this tender way , when the good lady entered , and with an inexpressible sweetness in her countenance told us , she had been scarching searching her closet for something very good , to treat MR . BICKERSTAFF VISITS A FRIEND . S.
... on in this tender way , when the good lady entered , and with an inexpressible sweetness in her countenance told us , she had been scarching searching her closet for something very good , to treat MR . BICKERSTAFF VISITS A FRIEND . S.
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... told her I was glad she had transferred so many of her charms , and I did not question but her eldest daughter was within half a year of being a toast . We were pleasing ourselves with this fantastical preferment of the young lady ...
... told her I was glad she had transferred so many of her charms , and I did not question but her eldest daughter was within half a year of being a toast . We were pleasing ourselves with this fantastical preferment of the young lady ...
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... told me , that the little girl who led me in this morning , was in her way a better scholar than he : ' Betty , ' says she , ' deals chiefly in ' fairies and sprights ; and sometimes in a winter " " night , will terrify the maids with ...
... told me , that the little girl who led me in this morning , was in her way a better scholar than he : ' Betty , ' says she , ' deals chiefly in ' fairies and sprights ; and sometimes in a winter " " night , will terrify the maids with ...
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Austin Dobson. the dying person . At my approach to the bedside , she told me , with a low broken voice - ' This is ' kindly done - Take care of your friend - Don't go ' from him . ' She had before taken leave of her husband and children ...
Austin Dobson. the dying person . At my approach to the bedside , she told me , with a low broken voice - ' This is ' kindly done - Take care of your friend - Don't go ' from him . ' She had before taken leave of her husband and children ...
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Página 15 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 260 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Página 138 - Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 258 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 147 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Página 261 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 77 - WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an Academy for the training up of young women in the Exercise of the Fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at court.
Página 144 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Página 260 - His great grandfather was inventor of that famous countrydance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir ROGER. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 99 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.