Moderation: A TaleLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 - 253 pages |
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affection affliction alarm Alathea amiable anger anxiety aunt awakened Baronet beauty believe beloved blessing brother BUNGAY Captain Wilmington character child circumstances comfort considered consolation countenance creature cumstances daugh daughter dear Emma death desire distress dreaded durance duty eldest Emma's endeavoured esteem Eulalič evident evinced excited eyes father father's affairs fear feelings felt gaze gentle gentleman give gratitude grief hand happy Harriet heart honour hope hour kind knew Lady Lyster late letters Lisbon look Madeira marriage married Melville ment mind Miss Carysford Miss Tintagell MODERATION mother nature neral never numbers painful pathy perhaps person pleasure present Ravenhill recollected Rectory rienced riet sense sensible sick sigh sister situation solicitude soothed Sophia sorrow spect spirit spoke stranger suffer surely Tagus tears tender thing thought tion turally uncle weak whilst wish woman yond young
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Page 167 - Tis Jesus, the first and the last, Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home ; We'll praise him for all that is past, And trust him for all that's to come.
Page 127 - But it would be nncandid to urge these objections against such a mass of talent, good sense, and virtuous instruction, as ' Moderation' contains. We must afford room for a short specicimen of the general style in which this tale is written. ' The disposition of the father was well known to both his daughters, indeed, it might be said to be known to every person, almost every child, in his parish, for if he had tried he would not have had the faculty of concealing his joys, sorrows, perplexities,...
Page 94 - God as the horse rusheth into the battle," in confusion and indignation, with unsubdued pride and worldly cares struggling at her heart. But meditation and reflection, the remembrance of keener sorrows which had been healed, of many blessings which yet remained, of many faults of heart and conduct (for who has not such) that were yet unpunished, in due time subdued these warring sensations, and enabled her to say, " to whom should I go but unto Thee,
Page 129 - ... father happy, and every branch of her family amiable and respectable, to become resigned to the past and prepared for the future ; without affecting either extraordinary knowledge, wisdom, or piety, she yet endeavoured constantly to cultivate her mind, regulate her conduct by good sense, and find, in the exercise of christian duties, consolation and delight. In consequence, Harriet and Sophia were, each in their own circle, much more talked of and thought of than Emma, but she was more approved...
Page 130 - Emma trusted that every breeze " brought healing on its wings,'' slowly but surely was confirmed consumption securing its unresisting victim.' ART. XIV. Observations on Italy. By the late John Bell, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, &c.
Page 128 - ... his general aspect, an overflowing of connubial love in his common mode cf speech, when he answered the most homely enquirer about Madam, which told his general felicity, and by the same rule, if sickness visited his little ones, if the beloved mother was in a state of suffering, or himself in one of apprehension on her account, there was a shade on his brow, a character of despondency on his expressive features, that could not be mistaken, " he walked softly as one that mourneth for his mother...
Page 152 - And—so often as we have been together, you could not give me a line or a word ; oh ! fie, fie, I have not merited this, Miss Carysford, for I trust that though I have much of the frankness of a seaman about me, I am not therefore deficient in respect, in...
Page 124 - I shall then be able to return—I had hoped to give away my first-born at the altar myself, I, am surprised and somewhat displeased with Harriet's precipitate marriage— I do not object to the man, but to the measure ; Frank Wilmington has been a good son, and will be a good husband. Harriet will one day have a handsome fortune from my sister Tintagell, and so probably will he from his uncle, both these persons should have been informed of this affair—I am by no means satisfied.
Page 190 - ... evening, was already in preparation, that the banker of Mr. Melville had taken charge of every thing, and would engage two English gentlemen to attend their countryman's funeral, either as mourners or supporters to her if she wished to attend.
Page 21 - ... forbidden by nursery details. After some time her visits became much more frequent, and Harriet generally, but not constantly, returned with her to town, where she enjoyed those advantages of education it was not possible to obtain in the country. Here however their excellent father left little to regret on this account. On the marriage of her brother...