Love and Madness: A Story Too True : in a Series of Letters Between Parties, Whose Names Would Perhaps be Mentioned, Were They Less Known, Or Less LamentedG. Kearsly ..., and R. Faulder, 1780 - 300 páginas |
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... , than to defire the Reader , who feels an Inclination to cenfure any of these Letters , will recollect the Perfons by and to whom , and the Situations in which , they were written . Letter MEMOIRS of Mifs Ray . I. 2 . 3.
... , than to defire the Reader , who feels an Inclination to cenfure any of these Letters , will recollect the Perfons by and to whom , and the Situations in which , they were written . Letter MEMOIRS of Mifs Ray . I. 2 . 3.
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... these adventitious aids , liberal nature amply fupplied , by a profufion of her more rare and eftima- ble gifts : the character left us by Salluft of the beau- tiful , the gay , and accomplished Sempronia , was pe- generally uniform ...
... these adventitious aids , liberal nature amply fupplied , by a profufion of her more rare and eftima- ble gifts : the character left us by Salluft of the beau- tiful , the gay , and accomplished Sempronia , was pe- generally uniform ...
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... these -I maintain it to be lefs wonderful that an hundred or fo fhould fall in the world , than that even one should stand . Is it strange the ferpent conquered Eve ? The devil against a woman is fearful odds . He has conquered men ...
... these -I maintain it to be lefs wonderful that an hundred or fo fhould fall in the world , than that even one should stand . Is it strange the ferpent conquered Eve ? The devil against a woman is fearful odds . He has conquered men ...
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... these eyes , by your ftill dearer eyes , I don't think I flept three hours during the whole three weeks . Yet , yet , ' twas blifs . How lucky , that I was preffed to stay at H. the night the snow set in ! Would it had fnowed till ...
... these eyes , by your ftill dearer eyes , I don't think I flept three hours during the whole three weeks . Yet , yet , ' twas blifs . How lucky , that I was preffed to stay at H. the night the snow set in ! Would it had fnowed till ...
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... these fix weeks . Were it poffible my fcrawls to you could ever be read by any one but you , I should be called a madman . I certainly am either curft or bleft ( I know not which ) with pas- fions wild as the torrent's roar . Not ...
... these fix weeks . Were it poffible my fcrawls to you could ever be read by any one but you , I should be called a madman . I certainly am either curft or bleft ( I know not which ) with pas- fions wild as the torrent's roar . Not ...
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Página 34 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 89 - I hope you will burn this, and pardon me for giving you so much trouble about an impracticable thing; but if you think there is a probability of obtaining the favour...
Página 35 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 88 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.
Página 173 - They declared, that they withdrew themselves from poverty and rags ; evils that, through a train of unlucky accidents, were become inevitable.
Página 35 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.
Página 75 - Dear is the brother, sister, husband, wife ; Dear all the charities of social life : Nor wants firm friendship holy wreaths to bind In mutual sympathy the faithful mind : But not th...
Página 35 - Logan; not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any human creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace.
Página 104 - ... of the count Alberti, with whom you were once acquainted. You remember him one' of the gayeft, moft agreeable perfons at the court of Vienna ; at once the example of the men, and the favourite of the fair fex.
Página 114 - ... never name it any more to me; for, be assured, if you should ever do so cruel a thing as to leave me, from that moment I shall never enjoy one quiet hour: and should you do it without asking my consent, (which if I ever give you may I never see the face of Heaven!) I will shut myself up, and never see the world more, but live where I may be forgotten by human kind.