MirrorT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Página 13
... allowed , that the other sex is more indebted to their original constitution . If women , as we sometimes allege , are too apt to connect the idea of pride , and hardness of manners , with that of knowledge and ability , and , on that ...
... allowed , that the other sex is more indebted to their original constitution . If women , as we sometimes allege , are too apt to connect the idea of pride , and hardness of manners , with that of knowledge and ability , and , on that ...
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... allowed to approach rather too near to the drudgery of real business . The labour of thought which it requires , and the turbulence of contending passions , are certainly inimical to that tranquil indifference in which we loungers place ...
... allowed to approach rather too near to the drudgery of real business . The labour of thought which it requires , and the turbulence of contending passions , are certainly inimical to that tranquil indifference in which we loungers place ...
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... allowed for the prejudices of education ; an old horse - officer ( un ancien Capitaine de Cavalerie ] is naturally prolix , when his horse chances to be the subject of discourse . ” « “ Pray , Captain , ” said one of the company ...
... allowed for the prejudices of education ; an old horse - officer ( un ancien Capitaine de Cavalerie ] is naturally prolix , when his horse chances to be the subject of discourse . ” « “ Pray , Captain , ” said one of the company ...
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... with that tone which the absence of the ladies had allowed the company to assume . The jests were not such as I can re- peat ; one fancy , however , I recollect , of which , I think , a better use may be made than its 42 N ° 64 . MIRROR .
... with that tone which the absence of the ladies had allowed the company to assume . The jests were not such as I can re- peat ; one fancy , however , I recollect , of which , I think , a better use may be made than its 42 N ° 64 . MIRROR .
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... allowed me to remain equally ignorant and uncultivated as the generality of my companions , whose affections centre in themselves , whose ambition consists in frequenting the best company , and whose knowledge is confined to the kitchen ...
... allowed me to remain equally ignorant and uncultivated as the generality of my companions , whose affections centre in themselves , whose ambition consists in frequenting the best company , and whose knowledge is confined to the kitchen ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 171 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 171 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 248 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 249 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 139 - ... than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Página 127 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 302 - Edward, after being blooded, was put to bed, and tended with every possible care by his host and his family. A considerable degree of fever was the consequence of his accident ; but after some days it abated , and, in little more than a week, he was able to join in the society of Venoni and his daughter.
Página 305 - I wished, though it wounded the heart of my dearest benefactress — but I will make a severe expiation.. This moment I leave you, Louisa! I go to be wretched; but you may be happy, happy in your duty to a father, happy, it may be, in the arms of a husband, whom the possession of such a wife may teach refinement and sensibility. — I go to my native country, to...
Página 76 - In effect the civil officers of this government might be reduced to a very scanty number, were their exigency alone to determine the list of your covenanted servants, which at this time...
Página 304 - Sir Edward pressed to know the cause; after some hesitation she told it all. Her father had fixed on the son of a neighbour, rich in possessions, but rude in manners, for her husband. Against this match she had always protested as strongly as a sense of duty, and the mildness of her nature, would allow; but Venoni was obstinately bent on the match, and she was wretched from the thoughts of it — ' To marry, where one cannot love, — to marry such a man, Sir Edward !' It was an opportunity beyond...