The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the AgeJ. Murray, 1871 - 347 էջ |
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... heroines as well as the authors into court , that they may give evidence as witnesses of a state of society that has passed away - and of which it is difficult now in the many wonderful changes B that have since taken place to form a ...
... heroines as well as the authors into court , that they may give evidence as witnesses of a state of society that has passed away - and of which it is difficult now in the many wonderful changes B that have since taken place to form a ...
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... heroine , a young unmarried lady , receiving as a matter of course male visitors in her dressing room while performing her toilette . At Bath ladies bathed in public , and if we were to take literally the description in Miss Burney's ...
... heroine , a young unmarried lady , receiving as a matter of course male visitors in her dressing room while performing her toilette . At Bath ladies bathed in public , and if we were to take literally the description in Miss Burney's ...
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... heroine says , " The play was ' Love for Love ; ' and , though it is fraught with wit and enter- tainment , I hope I shall never see it represented again ; for it is so extremely indelicate — to use D the softest word I can - that Miss ...
... heroine says , " The play was ' Love for Love ; ' and , though it is fraught with wit and enter- tainment , I hope I shall never see it represented again ; for it is so extremely indelicate — to use D the softest word I can - that Miss ...
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... my aunt's . " In Miss Burney's Evelina ' the heroine says , " I have just had my hair 6 * Quoted in ' Wright's Caricature History of the Georges . ' dressed . You cannot think how oddly my head feels Dress of Ladies . 55.
... my aunt's . " In Miss Burney's Evelina ' the heroine says , " I have just had my hair 6 * Quoted in ' Wright's Caricature History of the Georges . ' dressed . You cannot think how oddly my head feels Dress of Ladies . 55.
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... heroine is asked to go to Lady Betty Castleton's , but excuses herself on the ground that she does 1 6 * A writer in the Westminster Magazine , ' in May , 1774 , describing a masquerade at the Pantheon says , “ I saw ladies and ...
... heroine is asked to go to Lady Betty Castleton's , but excuses herself on the ground that she does 1 6 * A writer in the Westminster Magazine , ' in May , 1774 , describing a masquerade at the Pantheon says , “ I saw ladies and ...
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Էջ 11 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Էջ 30 - Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?
Էջ 335 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. 'My dear Mr. Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Էջ 195 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Էջ 68 - I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's. In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club.
Էջ 15 - Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Էջ 103 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Էջ 118 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then...
Էջ 309 - A fig for the silver rims," cried my wife, in a passion ; "I dare swear they wont sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce." "You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, " about selling the rims, for they are not worth sixpence, for I perceive they are only copper, varnished over." " What !" cried my wife, " not silver ! the rims not silver !" " No," cried I ; "no more silver than your saucepan.
Էջ 119 - ... upon, to his chaplain, because he thought he would be kind to him, and has left you all his books. He has, moreover, bequeathed to the chaplain a very pretty tenement with good lands about it. It being a very cold day when he made his will, he left for mourning, to every man in the parish, a great frieze coat, and to every woman a black ridinghood.