The Orphan Boy, Or Test of Innocence, Etc. (Founded on Facts.). |
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... Miss Aus- tincourt replied with disagreeable tartness , " that ill weeds grew apace ; " and this being thought a piece of delicate wit by the pert Maryanne , she introduced her favorite giggle . How long it would have lasted was ...
... Miss Aus- tincourt replied with disagreeable tartness , " that ill weeds grew apace ; " and this being thought a piece of delicate wit by the pert Maryanne , she introduced her favorite giggle . How long it would have lasted was ...
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... Miss Austincourts had at the first sight of Miss Grandison indulged the exercise of their extra- ordinary mirth in the most unbecoming manner , they had suddenly become converts to her way of thinking ; in which they had been carefully ...
... Miss Austincourts had at the first sight of Miss Grandison indulged the exercise of their extra- ordinary mirth in the most unbecoming manner , they had suddenly become converts to her way of thinking ; in which they had been carefully ...
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... Miss Grandison being on a visit at the priory soon after he was born , and having descanted on the uncommon beauty of the child , whom she called divinely handsome , the discontented mother expressed herself in the most ungracious terms ...
... Miss Grandison being on a visit at the priory soon after he was born , and having descanted on the uncommon beauty of the child , whom she called divinely handsome , the discontented mother expressed herself in the most ungracious terms ...
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... Miss Grandison : to which his mother carelessly re- plied , " That he was best in the nursery . " - " Where he has been ever since he was born I believe ( cried Sir Mildred ) , however , lady Austincourt , you will this once gratify Miss ...
... Miss Grandison : to which his mother carelessly re- plied , " That he was best in the nursery . " - " Where he has been ever since he was born I believe ( cried Sir Mildred ) , however , lady Austincourt , you will this once gratify Miss ...
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... Miss Grandison , while with a pensive sigh , she gave Edmund to his nurse . " Are you serious Helen ? " echoed Sir Mildred . " Determinedly so " -answered her ladyship . Sir Mildred and Miss Grandison exchanged looks ; but the latter ...
... Miss Grandison , while with a pensive sigh , she gave Edmund to his nurse . " Are you serious Helen ? " echoed Sir Mildred . " Determinedly so " -answered her ladyship . Sir Mildred and Miss Grandison exchanged looks ; but the latter ...
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Página 675 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
Página 707 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Página 643 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Página 676 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay ; And those, who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame...
Página 723 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Página 543 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 109 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 543 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace and competent But health consists with temperance alone; And peace, oh Virtue!
Página 446 - But it was a long time before she could bring herself to believe that this was the language of her hitherto gay and volatile brother.
Página 224 - Then why, sir, did you dare — "cried she, breaking from his hold — " to — to — to — " but sobs choked her voice, and at length covering her face with her hands, she burst into tears.