Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... gave her license ; yet at last shee so cunningly dis- sembled , that she got thus farre liberty , not to bee close prisoner , but to walke about the house ; yet every night hee shut up her clothes , that no nightly feare of her escape ...
... gave her license ; yet at last shee so cunningly dis- sembled , that she got thus farre liberty , not to bee close prisoner , but to walke about the house ; yet every night hee shut up her clothes , that no nightly feare of her escape ...
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... gave a gift right excellent , The goodly practice of her science musical , In divers tongues to sing , and play with instrument , Both vial and lute , and also virginall ; Not only upon one , but excellent in all . For all other vertues ...
... gave a gift right excellent , The goodly practice of her science musical , In divers tongues to sing , and play with instrument , Both vial and lute , and also virginall ; Not only upon one , but excellent in all . For all other vertues ...
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... gave him his pardon , " he returned to his native country , " wherein he lived happily , and died peaceably , leaving a wife and eight children - three sons , and five daughters . " Of these children , Margaret , the future duchess ...
... gave him his pardon , " he returned to his native country , " wherein he lived happily , and died peaceably , leaving a wife and eight children - three sons , and five daughters . " Of these children , Margaret , the future duchess ...
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... nobleman , in conjunction with Laurence Hyde , second son of Edward , Earl of Clarendon , Charles the Second gave ( with the liberality that characterized European monarchs of those days ) the MRS . BEHN . 45 MRS BEHN.
... nobleman , in conjunction with Laurence Hyde , second son of Edward , Earl of Clarendon , Charles the Second gave ( with the liberality that characterized European monarchs of those days ) the MRS . BEHN . 45 MRS BEHN.
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... gave satisfactory proofs of his love . Without much parleying he agreed to play his country false , and to communicate to his mistress the plans of De Witt and De Ruyter . He kept his word : and before long apprised Aphara that an ...
... gave satisfactory proofs of his love . Without much parleying he agreed to play his country false , and to communicate to his mistress the plans of De Witt and De Ruyter . He kept his word : and before long apprised Aphara that an ...
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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...