Isabella: A NovelHenry Colburn and Company, 1823 |
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Página 96
... ball . " Nay now , my dear madam , I am sure that you are laughing at me , " said Isabella . " What can my giving a ball have to do with making me ac- ceptable to Mr. Willoughby ? does not love balls . I have heard him He say that he is ...
... ball . " Nay now , my dear madam , I am sure that you are laughing at me , " said Isabella . " What can my giving a ball have to do with making me ac- ceptable to Mr. Willoughby ? does not love balls . I have heard him He say that he is ...
Página 97
... ball , my dear . I saw that pretty plainly when Lady Charlotte , like the old woman in the fairy - tale , turned all ... balls that can fix wavering husbands , or that can keep doubtful ones from wavering , are not nothings ; and I saw ...
... ball , my dear . I saw that pretty plainly when Lady Charlotte , like the old woman in the fairy - tale , turned all ... balls that can fix wavering husbands , or that can keep doubtful ones from wavering , are not nothings ; and I saw ...
Página 100
... ball . " " I fear I have none of those talents upon which you compliment me , ” said Isabella , " for really I did not disco- ver that there was anything wanting in the ball and party that Mr. Wil- loughby so kindly spared no expence in ...
... ball . " " I fear I have none of those talents upon which you compliment me , ” said Isabella , " for really I did not disco- ver that there was anything wanting in the ball and party that Mr. Wil- loughby so kindly spared no expence in ...
Página 102
... ball , which you hold so lightly , is to be the first step in the plan that I have formed for your reforming your husband . " 66 Reforming my husband ! " ex- claimed Isabella , " Good God , madam ! does Mr. Willougby want reforming ...
... ball , which you hold so lightly , is to be the first step in the plan that I have formed for your reforming your husband . " 66 Reforming my husband ! " ex- claimed Isabella , " Good God , madam ! does Mr. Willougby want reforming ...
Página 105
... ball , and then , as we proceed , I will open my whole plan to you . " " I will promise you , " said Isabella , " that I will ask Mr. Willoughby to give me leave to give it . " " Now , my dear , this is a tone that will never do ...
... ball , and then , as we proceed , I will open my whole plan to you . " " I will promise you , " said Isabella , " that I will ask Mr. Willoughby to give me leave to give it . " " Now , my dear , this is a tone that will never do ...
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