Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volumen4R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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Adieu admire affection affectionate amiable Apicius beauty believe blame brielle CAROLINE cerned character charming convinced coquette cultivated danger daughter dear friend dear Julia dear mother dearest mother deceived delicacy despise detection think dread DUCHESS England English entrez esteem eyes fair sex fancy fear feel female fête fête champêtre friendship Gabrielle genius give glish grace habit happiness heart Helen heroine honour hope human husband idea imagination J. B. LETTER jealousy Josephine lady Leonora lady Olivia LEONORA L LETTER look lover manner ment metaphysical nature never numbers object OLIVIA TO MADAME opinion pain passion perhaps Petersburg pity pleasure pride racter reason reproach sacrifice sense sensibility sentiment society soul species spirit stancy strength of mind sure talents talk taste tell temper thing thought tion trifles truth understanding vanity virtue weak whilst wife wish woman women words write Yarmouth
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Página 126 - Be she meeker, kinder, than fhe turtle-dove or pelican : If she be not so to me, What care I how kind she be? Shall a woman's virtues move Me to perish for her love? Or, her well-deservings known, Make me quite forget mine own? Be she with that goodness blest Which may merit name of Best; If she be not such to me, What care I how good she be?
Página 61 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save.
Página 133 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Página 30 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 269 - Chemistry is not a science of parade, it affords occupation and infinite variety; it demands no bodily strength, it can be pursued in retirement, it applies immediately to useful and domestic purposes; and whilst the ingenuity of the most inventive mind may be exercised, there is no danger of inflaming the imagination; the judgment is improved, the mind is intent upon realities, the knowledge that is acquired is exact, and the pleasure of the pursuit is a sufficient reward for the labour.
Página 276 - ... spared. If they do not acquire a classical taste, neither do they imbibe classic prejudices ; nor are they early disgusted with literature by pedagogues, lexicons, grammars, and all the melancholy apparatus of learning. — Women begin to taste the pleasures of reading, and the best authors in the English language are their amusement, just at the age when young men, disgusted by their studies, begin to be ashamed of alluding to literature amongst their companions. Travelling, lounging, field...
Página 93 - The practis'd languish, where well-feign'd desire Would own its melting in a mutual fire; Gay smiles to comfort ; April showers to move; And all the nature, all the art, of love.
Página 9 - Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Página 15 - A desperate change which ends in base retreat. He taught them Shame, the sudden sense of ill : Shame, nature's hasty conscience, which forbids Weak inclination ere it grows to will, Or stays rash will before it grows to deeds.
Página 296 - ... painful pre-eminence." Alas ! whether it be deformity or excellence which makes us say with Richard the Third, " I am myself alone !" it comes to much the same thing. Then let us, Caroline, content ourselves to gain in love what we lose in esteem. Man is to be held only by the slightest chains ; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport ; but his pride revolts against the power to which his reason tells him he ought to submit. What then can woman gain by reason...