Striking likenesses; or, The votaries of fashion, Volumen2B. Clarke, 1808 |
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Página 49
... behold this with unconcern ; Dauverne forgot the figure ; instead of going down the dance he began hands across , and when he should have cast off he attempted right and left . " For hea ven's , sake ! what are you at ? " VOL . II . D 49.
... behold this with unconcern ; Dauverne forgot the figure ; instead of going down the dance he began hands across , and when he should have cast off he attempted right and left . " For hea ven's , sake ! what are you at ? " VOL . II . D 49.
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... me ! " - She paused , and recollecting herself would have with- drawn her hand , but still Dauverne detained it . Why were you made so excellent ? ” he murmured— ” why 66 every moment in you do I behold a brighter example D 4 35.
... me ! " - She paused , and recollecting herself would have with- drawn her hand , but still Dauverne detained it . Why were you made so excellent ? ” he murmured— ” why 66 every moment in you do I behold a brighter example D 4 35.
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Louisa Sidney Stanhope. every moment in you do I behold a brighter example of virtue ? Oh , An- tonia ! " " Think not to fly me , my charming partner , " said Lord Car- berry , approaching , " for by heaven ! if it is to the world's end ...
Louisa Sidney Stanhope. every moment in you do I behold a brighter example of virtue ? Oh , An- tonia ! " " Think not to fly me , my charming partner , " said Lord Car- berry , approaching , " for by heaven ! if it is to the world's end ...
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... behold such a change ? ' pon my soul ' tis too palpable ! " For Dauverne , now figuring down the dance with Antonia , was indeed an altered being . He looked the very image of grace , animation , and gaiety ; while Antonia , beholding ...
... behold such a change ? ' pon my soul ' tis too palpable ! " For Dauverne , now figuring down the dance with Antonia , was indeed an altered being . He looked the very image of grace , animation , and gaiety ; while Antonia , beholding ...
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... say but yes ! say , that I shall again behold her in health and happiness , and as a minis- tering angel of comfort I will bless you . " " For the sake of common sense quit the stilts of romance , " said Lady a 2 123.
... say but yes ! say , that I shall again behold her in health and happiness , and as a minis- tering angel of comfort I will bless you . " " For the sake of common sense quit the stilts of romance , " said Lady a 2 123.
Términos y frases comunes
affection Antholine's Antonia started archly Arkerman articulated barouche beauty behold berry betrayed Bless blush bosom bowed Captain Glendenning Cecilia cheek Cheltenham chioness choly cival countenance dancing daugh daughter Dauverne dear derland dine Duchess of Delaware earl exclaimed Lady eyes Falmouth fashion father fear feel gaiety gazing girl grace Grange hand happiness heart heaven honour Hudibras inquired interrupted Jonathan Penrose Lady Ge Lady Geral Lady Geraldine Lady Selina ladyship laughing look Lord Carberry Lord Westbrook lordship Mahala marchioness melan Miss Forrester Moreland murmured never Obadiah pale paused Penrose pity poor possess pursued quaker racter raldine rejoined Lady repeated Lady replied Antonia replied Lady rester resumed Selina and Antonia sigh sister smile sorrow soul spirit Sunderland sure sweet tears tender thee thou thought tion tonia trembled turning verne vicarage virtue voice Warwickshire whispered
Pasajes populares
Página 227 - A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 188 - I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love Jul. Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Página 224 - Returning he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Página 51 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 186 - In early youth the heart of every one is a poet ; it creates a scene of imagined happinefs and delusive hopes ; it clothes the world in the bright colours of its own fancy ; it refines what is coarse, it exalts what is mean ; it sees nothing but disinterestednefs in friendfhip, it promises eternal fidelity in love.
Página 196 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain: And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stufTd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 39 - To look a gift horse in the mouth; And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth: But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For...
Página 250 - Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern Wing, Or where the Beetle winds His small but sullen Horn, As oft he rises mid the twilight Path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless Hum...
Página 186 - ... delusive hopes ; it clothes the world in the bright colours of its own fancy ; it refines what is coarse, it exalts what is mean ; it sees nothing but disinterestedness in friendship, it promises eternal fidelity in love. Even on the distresses of its situation it can throw a certain romantic shade of melancholy, that leaves a man sad, but does not make him unhappy. But at a more advanced age, " the fairy visions fade," and he suffers most deeply, who has indulged them the most.
Página 221 - ... few hints, respecting the antiquity of the manor-house at Woodlands, and the reports that several of the rooms were haunted."12 In many nineteenth-century novels, satire is expressed by the characters themselves. A duchess, in Louisa Stanhope's Striking Likenesses (1808) exclaims sardonically: '"Did the bat shriek from the clustering ivy?