Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... look with approbation at such a model of chivalry as Monseigneur le Marquis . Without doubt there is no slight vanity on the part of the noble equestrian displayed in these drawings ; but then was he not ' best ' in his art ? and if ...
... look with approbation at such a model of chivalry as Monseigneur le Marquis . Without doubt there is no slight vanity on the part of the noble equestrian displayed in these drawings ; but then was he not ' best ' in his art ? and if ...
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... looks on and says , " I knew it would be so ; " or maybe he mutters , " a pity these pleasant compliments did not come a hundred and fifty years sooner - at Guildhall and St. James's . " Daniel De Foe was born in 1661 , in the parish of ...
... looks on and says , " I knew it would be so ; " or maybe he mutters , " a pity these pleasant compliments did not come a hundred and fifty years sooner - at Guildhall and St. James's . " Daniel De Foe was born in 1661 , in the parish of ...
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... look forth with him upon the lone and boisterous ocean with the sick- ening feeling of an exile cut off for ever from all human intercourse . Our sympathy is more truly engaged by the poor shipwrecked mariner , than by the great , the ...
... look forth with him upon the lone and boisterous ocean with the sick- ening feeling of an exile cut off for ever from all human intercourse . Our sympathy is more truly engaged by the poor shipwrecked mariner , than by the great , the ...
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... look down On the whole street of Arlington . Greatness by poets still is painted With many followers acquainted ; This , too , doth in my favour speak ; Your levee is but twice a week ; From mine I can exclude but one day , My door is ...
... look down On the whole street of Arlington . Greatness by poets still is painted With many followers acquainted ; This , too , doth in my favour speak ; Your levee is but twice a week ; From mine I can exclude but one day , My door is ...
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... look for such a one for our friend . Where shall we find him ? The year before the publication of " Amelia , " Fielding , then in his forty - fourth year , and so worn out in health as to require constant nursing , was appointed to the ...
... look for such a one for our friend . Where shall we find him ? The year before the publication of " Amelia , " Fielding , then in his forty - fourth year , and so worn out in health as to require constant nursing , was appointed to the ...
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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...