Isabella: A NovelHenry Colburn and Company, 1823 |
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... secure hus- bands . Men liked women who had been used to obey ; who would not al- ways have a will of their own . - If she had taught her daughters any thing , it was the natural superiority of the other sex , and the necessity in all ...
... secure hus- bands . Men liked women who had been used to obey ; who would not al- ways have a will of their own . - If she had taught her daughters any thing , it was the natural superiority of the other sex , and the necessity in all ...
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... , and the ele- gance of your appearance , secure my happiness . Let me always see you thus good - humoured and well - dressed , and I shall have nothing to ask . " Such , in the estimation of Mr. Wil- loughby , c 2 CHAP. IV. ...
... , and the ele- gance of your appearance , secure my happiness . Let me always see you thus good - humoured and well - dressed , and I shall have nothing to ask . " Such , in the estimation of Mr. Wil- loughby , c 2 CHAP. IV. ...
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... secure them ? indeed , as Mr. Willoughby had made himself content with the acceptance of his offers from the mother , rather than sought to se- cure the affections of the daughter , he had in fact never had one doubt or fear upon the ...
... secure them ? indeed , as Mr. Willoughby had made himself content with the acceptance of his offers from the mother , rather than sought to se- cure the affections of the daughter , he had in fact never had one doubt or fear upon the ...
Página 71
... was the least solicitous to secure . It was no longer to her that the eye of Mr. Willoughby was directed in the hope of being understood ; it was not to her that the half - word which implies mu- tual understanding ISABELLA . 71.
... was the least solicitous to secure . It was no longer to her that the eye of Mr. Willoughby was directed in the hope of being understood ; it was not to her that the half - word which implies mu- tual understanding ISABELLA . 71.
Página 121
... secure the most animated ap- plause . For these , the first fruits of this so confidently anticipated triumph , she was , however , obliged to wait longer than she had reckoned upon . Mr. Wil- loughby had no taste for the restricted ...
... secure the most animated ap- plause . For these , the first fruits of this so confidently anticipated triumph , she was , however , obliged to wait longer than she had reckoned upon . Mr. Wil- loughby had no taste for the restricted ...
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