Isabella: A NovelHenry Colburn and Company, 1823 |
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... affection through the course of it , would but inade- quately discharge . Does any one ask upon what foun- dation so extensive a claim was rested ? the answer is easy . No one could ac- cumulate a greater variety of dancing and drawing ...
... affection through the course of it , would but inade- quately discharge . Does any one ask upon what foun- dation so extensive a claim was rested ? the answer is easy . No one could ac- cumulate a greater variety of dancing and drawing ...
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... affection : Lady Char- lotte might make a man mad ; Isabella could only make him happy . The moment was now arrived when the powers of each were to be tried by competition . - The gloss of novelty was something worn off from Lady ...
... affection : Lady Char- lotte might make a man mad ; Isabella could only make him happy . The moment was now arrived when the powers of each were to be tried by competition . - The gloss of novelty was something worn off from Lady ...
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... affection to rich shawls and splendid jewels ; if she could have gloated on the elegance and variety of her equipage ; or have exulted in her well - fancied liveries , or her exqui- sitely decorated c 5 ISABELLA . 38 thing to be done ...
... affection to rich shawls and splendid jewels ; if she could have gloated on the elegance and variety of her equipage ; or have exulted in her well - fancied liveries , or her exqui- sitely decorated c 5 ISABELLA . 38 thing to be done ...
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... affections of the daughter , he had in fact never had one doubt or fear upon the subject . He might have re- peated the boast of Cæsar , with a slight variation of phrase , He came , he de- manded , he obtained ! — and , pleased - with ...
... affections of the daughter , he had in fact never had one doubt or fear upon the subject . He might have re- peated the boast of Cæsar , with a slight variation of phrase , He came , he de- manded , he obtained ! — and , pleased - with ...
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... affections and now it was that she resigned her heart to him , so absolutely and so irrecoverably that neither circumstance nor time could henceforth restore it to her keeping . He seemed but to exist in - her presence ; her wishes were ...
... affections and now it was that she resigned her heart to him , so absolutely and so irrecoverably that neither circumstance nor time could henceforth restore it to her keeping . He seemed but to exist in - her presence ; her wishes were ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration beauty Beechwood believe bella better Brighton carriage CHAP Charlotte's charms child countenance creature curricle dancing daugh daughters dear Isabella dear Lady Rachel delight doubt Dunstan Eagle's Crag Evans eyes fault fear feel flattered gave Godfrey hand happy heard Hertfordshire hope hope and fear husband indulgence Isabella felt Jane's kind knew Lady Char Lady Charlotte Lady Jane Lady Ra look Lord Burghley Lord Thomas Orville lotte loughby madam mamma married means ment mind of Isabella mortified mother myste Nesbitt ness never passed perhaps pleasure pride replied Isabella replied Lady Rachel returned Lady Rachel rience scarcely seemed seen shew sion Sir Charles Seymour smile soul spirit stept sure taste tell thing thought tion told triumph vanity virtue Westmorland wholly wife Willough Willoughby wish woman words
Pasajes populares
Página 365 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 48 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life : Then say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate...
Página 65 - Light was either by negligence or affectation changed to sun, which, considered without the rhyme, is indeed better. The next transcriber, finding that the word right did not rhyme to sun, supposed it erroneously written, and left it out.
Página 220 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 179 - The world's a school Of wrong, and what proficients swarm around ! We must or imitate or disapprove ; Must list as their accomplices or foes: That stains our innocence, this wounds our peace.
Página 340 - The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, any more in worldly happiness than in other things.
Página 195 - Thy pleasure is the promise of thy pain. Misfortune, like a creditor severe, But rises in demand for her delay ; She makes a scourge of past prosperity...
Página 321 - Within the heart of peace, with birds and flocks, The flowers of the earth, and the high stars of heaven ' Companions of her love and innocence; Yet she who in that region- of delight, Slumber'd in the sunshine, or the shelter'd shade, Rose with the rising storm, and like an angel With hair unruffled in its radiance, stood Beside the couch of tossing agony ! As undisturb'd as on some vernal day Walking alone through mountain-solitude, To bring home in her arms a new-yean'd lamb Too feeble for the...
Página 90 - Why, my little novice in the ways of the world, and in the ways of the lords of it,
Página 198 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, Th