Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms ; and that Plato and Aristotle , untranslated , were frequent ornaments to their closet . " The artful , roguish minxes : can you not pic- ture to yourself the pains they were at to ...
... believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms ; and that Plato and Aristotle , untranslated , were frequent ornaments to their closet . " The artful , roguish minxes : can you not pic- ture to yourself the pains they were at to ...
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... believe ) from nothing else but the small knowledge they have of them , and from a persuasion that they themselves know everything . They fancy they talk pertinently about them , whereas they know no more than they learn by riding a ...
... believe ) from nothing else but the small knowledge they have of them , and from a persuasion that they themselves know everything . They fancy they talk pertinently about them , whereas they know no more than they learn by riding a ...
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... believe they are better than they are ; and they do all they can to draw company ; and their allure- ments is their dressing , singing , dancing , painting , and the like ; and when men are cacht , they laugh to see what fools they are ...
... believe they are better than they are ; and they do all they can to draw company ; and their allure- ments is their dressing , singing , dancing , painting , and the like ; and when men are cacht , they laugh to see what fools they are ...
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... Believe me , I love thee more than money ; for indeed thou art more beautiful than the ore of Guinea . * * * Oh ! thou art beautiful in every part , as a goodly ship under sail from the Indies ; thy hair is like her flowing pennons , as ...
... Believe me , I love thee more than money ; for indeed thou art more beautiful than the ore of Guinea . * * * Oh ! thou art beautiful in every part , as a goodly ship under sail from the Indies ; thy hair is like her flowing pennons , as ...
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... believe you to be , sincere and Nathaniel - like , without guile ) was a particular satisfaction to me : so the stop of a letter , how- ever it happened , deprived me of that cordial too many days , consider- ing how much I stood in ...
... believe you to be , sincere and Nathaniel - like , without guile ) was a particular satisfaction to me : so the stop of a letter , how- ever it happened , deprived me of that cordial too many days , consider- ing how much I stood in ...
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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 62 - But, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, the culture of the female mind seems to have been almost entirely neglected. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was regarded as a prodigy. Ladies highly born, highly bred, and naturally...
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 215 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and...
Էջ 199 - Talking of widows — pray, Eliza, if ever you are such, do not think of giving yourself to some wealthy Nabob, because I design to marry you myself. My wife cannot live long, and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour.
Էջ 202 - I come off conqueror my spirits are fled 'tis a bad omen do not weep my dear Lady — your tears are too precious to shed for me bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women ! may health, peace, and happiness prove your handmaids. If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemn'd which my heart, not my head betray'd me into.
Էջ 139 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.
Էջ 9 - How am I crost, or whence is this curse ? Even from hence, the men that should employ such as I am, are enamoured of their own wits...
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 71 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...