The Heroine, Or, Adventures of CherubinaH. Colburn, 1815 - 252 páginas |
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Página vii
... things recorded in it , lose , by the law of sympathy , their existence in the moon . This , most grave reader , is ... thing I did , was to peep into the water and admire my face ; - a a 4 vii their value, that they sell for as much. ...
... things recorded in it , lose , by the law of sympathy , their existence in the moon . This , most grave reader , is ... thing I did , was to peep into the water and admire my face ; - a a 4 vii their value, that they sell for as much. ...
Página xix
... globes will come slap together , flatten each other , like sub- lunary pancakes , and rush headlong into primeval chaos . Such will be the consummation of all things . Adieu . C THE HEROINE . LETTER I. AH ! my good xix.
... globes will come slap together , flatten each other , like sub- lunary pancakes , and rush headlong into primeval chaos . Such will be the consummation of all things . Adieu . C THE HEROINE . LETTER I. AH ! my good xix.
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... paper come , Cherry ? " or " more cream , Cherry , " or " what shall we have for dinner , Cherry ? " At dinner , nobody but a farmer or the parson ; and nog thing talked but politics and turnips , After tea I 28 THE HEROINE .
... paper come , Cherry ? " or " more cream , Cherry , " or " what shall we have for dinner , Cherry ? " At dinner , nobody but a farmer or the parson ; and nog thing talked but politics and turnips , After tea I 28 THE HEROINE .
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Eaton Stannard Barrett. thing talked but politics and turnips , After tea I am made sing some fal lal la of a ditty , and am sent to bed , with " Good night , pretty miss , " or " sweet dear ... thing talked but politics and turnips, ...
Eaton Stannard Barrett. thing talked but politics and turnips , After tea I am made sing some fal lal la of a ditty , and am sent to bed , with " Good night , pretty miss , " or " sweet dear ... thing talked but politics and turnips, ...
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... thing , " cried he .. " The kiss was too much of a smacker for that . - Egad , it rang through the pan- try , like the smash of twenty plates . But she shall never darken my doors again , never . I have just packed the pair of wrinkled ...
... thing , " cried he .. " The kiss was too much of a smacker for that . - Egad , it rang through the pan- try , like the smash of twenty plates . But she shall never darken my doors again , never . I have just packed the pair of wrinkled ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu answered arms barouche began beheld Betterton Black Chamber blood called charming Cherry Cherubina de Willoughby cried Jerry daugh daughter dear dinner Don Quixote door dress exclaimed eyes face fancy father feel fellow gentleman girl Grundy hair half hand happy head heard heart heaven Heloise hero heroine Higginson honour horror IDA OF ATHENS JAMES HIGGINSON Jerry Sullivan kiss Lady Cherubina Lady Gwyn Ladyship landlady laugh letter live looked Lord Lordship Ma'am Madam marriage marry Mary ment Minstrel mistress Monkton Castle Montmorenci morning mother murder MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO Nell Gwyn never night poor pray returned romances rose round shew sigh smile snatched soon spectre stairs stood Stuart Sullivan sure talk tears tell terton ther thing thou thought took turret vassals voice Warden whispered WILD IRISH GIRL Wilkinson woman word young
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Página 140 - Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Página 214 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Página 147 - I speak — to you reveal the story of my wrongs, and ask you to avenge them. Vain hope ! yet it imparts some comfort to believe it possible that what I now write may one day meet the eye of a fellow-creature, that the words which tell my sufferings may one day draw pity from the feeling heart. "Yet stay your tears — your pity now is useless.
Página 216 - I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 214 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 233 - Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still Slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account.
Página 50 - Cherry has no difficulty in filling up the blanks. " It is a written covenant," says this interesting young lady in a letter to her Governess, "between this Gregory Wilkinson and the miscreant (whom my being an heiress had prevented from enjoying the title and estate that would devolve to him at my death) stipulating to give Wilkinson "Sylvan Lodge," together with "trees, stones, &c." as "reasonable amends and satisfaction...
Página 28 - ... sentiment, adventure, and melancholy, than by dressing, gadding, dancing, and singing? For heroines are just as much on the alert to get husbands, as other young ladies; and in truth, I would never voluntarily undergo misfortunes, were I not certain that matrimony would be the last of them. (But even misery itself has its consolations and advantages. It makes one, at least, look interesting, and affords an opportunity for ornamental murmurs.} Besides, it is the mark of a refined mind. Only fools,...
Página 131 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...
Página 113 - ... tolerated. As if to underscore the dangerous affinity between the insanity of Cherubina's airs and the insanity of political rabble-rousing of all sorts, Barrett has Cherubina conclude her harangue to her imagined troops with a recognition of her talents as a politician: "I judged that the same qualities which have made me so good a heroine, would, if I were a man, have made me just as illustrious a patriot.