Tales and miscellaneous piecces, Volumen4R. Hunter, 1825 |
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Adieu admiration affection affectionate amiable Apicius beauty believe blame brielle CAROLINE cern character charming convinced coquette cultivated danger daughter dear friend dear Julia dear mother dearest mother delicacy despise detection think dread DUCHESS England English entrez esteem expect eyes fair sex fancy fear feel female fête fête champêtre friendship Gabrielle genius give glish grace habits happiness heart Helen heroine honour hope human husband idea imagination jealousy Josephine lady Leonora lady Olivia LEONORA L LETTER live look lover manner ment metaphysical nature never numbers object OLIVIA TO MADAME opinion pain Paris 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 voice weak whilst wife wish woman women words write Yarmouth
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Página 132 - 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 140 - 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!
Página 34 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 281 - 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 341 - I must now instruct you in the equally glorious means. For the advantage of my subject I address myself chiefly to married ladies; but those who have not as yet the good fortune to have that common enemy, a husband, to combat, may in the mean time practise my precepts upon their fathers, brothers, and female friends; with caution, however, lest by discovering their arms too soon, they preclude themselves from the power of using them to the fullest advantage hereafter. I therefore recommend it to...
Página 67 - 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 11 - 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 340 - You must be aware that real perfection is beyond the reach of mortals, nor would I have you aim at it; indeed it is not in any degree necessary to our purpose. You have heard of the established belief in...
Página 300 - He will answer, a broad flat face, small eyes, high cheek-bones, three or four broad black lines across each cheek, a low forehead, a large broad chin, a clumsy hook-nose, a tawny hide, and breasts hanging down to the belt.
Página 356 - You do not maintain it in the least, either because you believe it to be wrong or right, but merely because it is yours. Exposed as you might have been to the perpetual humiliation of being convinced, nature seems kindly to have denied you all perception of truth, or at least all sentiment of pleasure from the perception. With an admirable humility, you are as well contented to be in the wrong as in the right ; you answer all that can be said to you with a provoking humility of aspect.