Isabella: A NovelHenry Colburn and Company, 1823 |
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Página 42
... turned Isabella . " With so much beauty , with so many charms , as Lady Charlotte possesses ? " " You young Ladies , " said Mr. Wil- loughby , fondly patting the cheek of Isabella , " attach a great deal of glory to doing your business ...
... turned Isabella . " With so much beauty , with so many charms , as Lady Charlotte possesses ? " " You young Ladies , " said Mr. Wil- loughby , fondly patting the cheek of Isabella , " attach a great deal of glory to doing your business ...
Página 58
... turning over the leaves of the music - book , and sometimes in- ducing him to join his voice to hers , she would keep possession of him for hours . In vain would Mr. Burghley declare that Isabella could sing the song better , or Sir ...
... turning over the leaves of the music - book , and sometimes in- ducing him to join his voice to hers , she would keep possession of him for hours . In vain would Mr. Burghley declare that Isabella could sing the song better , or Sir ...
Página 66
... turned no more ! Mr. Willoughby had morning occu- pations and evening engagements , in which Isabella had no share . There was certainly nothing extraordinary in this , and they were also not unfre- quently together 66 ISABELLA .
... turned no more ! Mr. Willoughby had morning occu- pations and evening engagements , in which Isabella had no share . There was certainly nothing extraordinary in this , and they were also not unfre- quently together 66 ISABELLA .
Página 92
... turned Mrs. Nesbitt . " He knew that there was no occasion to be at that trouble ; -he negociated with mamma ; he did not woo the daughter . " " But he has known me since , " said Isabella meekly . " Yes , my dear , " returned Mrs ...
... turned Mrs. Nesbitt . " He knew that there was no occasion to be at that trouble ; -he negociated with mamma ; he did not woo the daughter . " " But he has known me since , " said Isabella meekly . " Yes , my dear , " returned Mrs ...
Página 97
... turned all her tradesman husband's eggs and nuts into pearls and diamonds , and asto- nished the whole world by the taste and splendour of her debut in fête making . Deuce take the French ! their words are always on one's tongue , I ...
... turned all her tradesman husband's eggs and nuts into pearls and diamonds , and asto- nished the whole world by the taste and splendour of her debut in fête making . Deuce take the French ! their words are always on one's tongue , I ...
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