The Balance of Comfort, Or, The Old Maid and Married Woman: A Novel, Volumen3

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Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1817

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Página 26 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Página 95 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Página 217 - Say a day, without the ever : No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December when they wed : maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Página 63 - In brighter flow; her wishing bosom heaves With palpitations wild ; kind tumults seize Her veins, and all her yielding soul is love. From the keen gaze her lover turns away, Full of the dear ecstatic power, and sick With sighing languishment. Ah then, ye fair ! Be greatly cautious of your sliding hearts : Dare not the infectious sigh ; the pleading look, Downcast and low, in meek submission drest, But full of guile.
Página 73 - Led, like a murderer, (and such it proves!) Strays (wretched rover!) o'er the pleasing past; In quest of wretchedness perversely strays, And finds all desert now; and meets the ghosts Of my departed joys, a...
Página 118 - Beauty and worth in her alike contend, To charm the fancy, and to fix the mind ; In her, my wife, my mistress, and my friend, I taste the joys of sense and reason join'd. On her I'll gaze, when others...
Página 256 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Página 40 - And mimic virtue with the paint of art! I scorn the cheat of reason's foolish pride, And boast the graceful weakness of my heart. The more I think, the more I feel my pain, And learn the more each heavenly charm to prize; While fools, too light for passion, safe remain, And dull sensation keeps the stupid wise.
Página 228 - Yet with sure steps, though lame and slow, Vengeance o'ertakes the trembling villain's speed." Thou shalt perceive that verified of Samuel to Agag, 1 Sam. xv. 33. " Thy sword hath made many women childless, so shall thy mother be childless amongst other women.
Página 158 - Because," replied her friend, " you see things as they really are, not as you wish them to be.

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