Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... court our deceits in one shift , so hereafter we may unite our loves in one simpathy : appoint what I shall doe to compasse a private conference . Thinke I will account of the seas as Leander ; of the warres as Troylus ; of all daungers ...
... court our deceits in one shift , so hereafter we may unite our loves in one simpathy : appoint what I shall doe to compasse a private conference . Thinke I will account of the seas as Leander ; of the warres as Troylus ; of all daungers ...
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... court at Oxford , and became a maid of honour to Henrietta Maria . Her brothers and sisters disapproved the step , because she was painfully bashful , and unaccustomed to society . " For though they knew I would not behave myself to ...
... court at Oxford , and became a maid of honour to Henrietta Maria . Her brothers and sisters disapproved the step , because she was painfully bashful , and unaccustomed to society . " For though they knew I would not behave myself to ...
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... court , and told Charles the Second the story of her adventures . She as- sured him that America contained snakes three score yards long , and I know not what else . The merry monarch was so delighted with her intelligence , and so ...
... court , and told Charles the Second the story of her adventures . She as- sured him that America contained snakes three score yards long , and I know not what else . The merry monarch was so delighted with her intelligence , and so ...
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... court of guard of your aversion , and blow up the magazine of your cruelty , that you might be brought to a capitulation and yield upon reasonable terms . Believe me , I love thee more than money ; for indeed thou art more beautiful ...
... court of guard of your aversion , and blow up the magazine of your cruelty , that you might be brought to a capitulation and yield upon reasonable terms . Believe me , I love thee more than money ; for indeed thou art more beautiful ...
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... Court of King Bantam , " and " Oroonoko are very trivial offences . Steele passed sentence on her as one ' who understood the practick part of love better than the speculative . ' Still her fictions so little shocked the feelings of our ...
... Court of King Bantam , " and " Oroonoko are very trivial offences . Steele passed sentence on her as one ' who understood the practick part of love better than the speculative . ' Still her fictions so little shocked the feelings of our ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Էջ 81 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Էջ 186 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; JOHNSON. " Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH.
Էջ 154 - Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Էջ 71 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Էջ 215 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: - Go...
Էջ 47 - Hill; it stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world...
Էջ 197 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung...
Էջ 274 - Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability, the effect had been preserved, without losing the least circumstance that excites or detains the attention.
Էջ 4 - And yet ten Morte Arthures do not the tenth part so much harme as one of these bookes made in Italie and translated in England.
Էջ 198 - Bramin's portrait over thy writing-desk, and will consult it in all doubts and difficulties? — grateful and good girl! Yorick smiles contentedly over all thou dost : his picture does not do justice to his own complacency. I am glad your shipmates are friendly beings...