Biographical memoirsCadell and Company, 1827 |
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... success . But however she might be inferior to others in some points , she was far above them in intellect , and the general improvement of the mind . She had read more than any one in the school , and was continu- ally composing verses ...
... success . But however she might be inferior to others in some points , she was far above them in intellect , and the general improvement of the mind . She had read more than any one in the school , and was continu- ally composing verses ...
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... success . As if foreseeing how short would be the period of her youthful pleasures , she pursued them with the avidity natural to her lively character ; and though her father was sometimes disposed to check her love of dissipation , he ...
... success . As if foreseeing how short would be the period of her youthful pleasures , she pursued them with the avidity natural to her lively character ; and though her father was sometimes disposed to check her love of dissipation , he ...
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... successful ; but as she was not known to have been the author of them , her vanity could not have been much gra- tified . In the spring of 1777 she lost her eldest son in his eleventh year . His delicate health from his birth had ...
... successful ; but as she was not known to have been the author of them , her vanity could not have been much gra- tified . In the spring of 1777 she lost her eldest son in his eleventh year . His delicate health from his birth had ...
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... success of her pen ; but I tell you fairly , that such heroes and such heroines shall never obtain the smallest recommendation from me . 66 The wise and good I pity in misfortune : But when ingratitude and folly suffers , ' Tis weakness ...
... success of her pen ; but I tell you fairly , that such heroes and such heroines shall never obtain the smallest recommendation from me . 66 The wise and good I pity in misfortune : But when ingratitude and folly suffers , ' Tis weakness ...
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... success was very general . It was published in the spring of 1788 , and the whole of the first edition , 1500 , sold so rapidly , that a second was immediately called for ; and the late Mr Cadell found his profits so considerable , that ...
... success was very general . It was published in the spring of 1788 , and the whole of the first edition , 1500 , sold so rapidly , that a second was immediately called for ; and the late Mr Cadell found his profits so considerable , that ...
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Էջ 256 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Էջ 356 - I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This Sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news; he walks about, and speaks to everybody. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well...
Էջ 256 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Էջ 428 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Էջ 408 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams ; he was girt With strange and dusky aspects ; he was not Himself like what he had been : on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer ! There was a mass of many image?
Էջ 323 - ... her own mouth. I should have told you before that Mrs. Veal told Mrs. Bargrave that her sister and brother-in-law were just come down from London to see her. Says Mrs. Bargrave, "How came you to order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped,
Էջ 426 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Էջ 323 - This Mrs. Watson blazed all about the town, and avouched the demonstration of the truth of Mrs. Bargrave's seeing Mrs. Veal's apparition; and Captain Watson carried two gentlemen immediately to Mrs. Bargrave's house to hear the relation from her own mouth. And...
Էջ 323 - A servant in a neighbour's yard adjoining to Mrs. Bargrave's house heard her talking to somebody an hour of the time Mrs. Veal was with her. Mrs. Bargrave went out to her next neighbour's the very moment she parted with Mrs.
Էջ 322 - Watson's before she went whither she was .going. Then she said she would take her leave of her; and walked from Mrs. Bargrave in her view, till a turning interrupted the sight of her, which was three quarters after one in the afternoon. Mrs. Veal died the 7th of September, at twelve o'clock at noon, of her fits, and had not above four hours' senses before her death, in which time she received the sacrament.