Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 8R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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Albina Amelia Anne answer Babet barouche Basile Beau Beaumont Park believe brodeuse brother captain Lightbody captain Walsingham carriage Carver château de Fleury child colonel Pembroke companions consider countenance cried daughter dear madam dearest declared door dress Edgeworthstown England exclaimed father favour feelings Fleury's fortune gentleman girl give gratitude hand happy hear heard heart honour hope instant Jamaica Jemmison knew lady Hunter leave letter look ma'am madame de Fleury manner Manon marry Maurice mind miss Beaumont miss Hunter miss Walsingham mistress mont morning mother never opinion Palmer pleasure poor Puckeridge singham sir John Hunter sister Frances smile soon Spanish speak stood sure talk tell there's thing thought tion told Tracassier truth turned Victoire Victoire's walk Walsing Wheeler whilst whispered Wigram estate wish woman word young lady
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Page 37 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 65 - When thy last look, ere thought and feeling fled, A mingled gleam of hope and triumph shed ; What to thy soul its glad assurance gave, Its hope in death, its triumph o'er the grave ? The sweet Remembrance of unblemished youth, The still inspiring voice of Innocence and Truth...
Page 142 - Our fair politician, well satisfied with the understanding of her confidante, which never comprehended more than met the ear, and secure in a charge d'affaires, whose powers it was never necessary to limit, stood on the steps before the house-door, deep in reverie, for some minutes after the carriage had driven away, till she was roused by seeing her son returning from his morning's ride. CHAPTER III. "Will you hear a Spanish lady, How she woo'd an English man? Garments gay as rich as may be, Deck'd...
Page 258 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Page 71 - Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty like the fair Hesperian Tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.
Page 125 - The description, however, has been touched by one of our poets: 'Julia's a manager: she's born for rule, And knows her wiser husband is a fool. For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
Page 220 - Can such mummeries move, Touch us with pity, or inspire with love ? No, Affectation, vain is all thy art, Those eyes may wander over every part, They'll never find their passage to the heart.
Page 18 - Ah me! how much I fear lest pride it be ! But if that pride it be, which thus inspires, Beware, ye dames, with nice discernment see, Ye quench not too the sparks of nobler fires : Ah ! better far than all the Muses...
Page 142 - WILL you hear a Spanish lady, How she woo'd an English man ? Garments gay, as rich as may be, Deck'd with jewels had she on ; Of a comely countenance and grace was she ; And by birth and parentage of high degree. As his prisoner there he kept her, In his hands her life did lie ; Cupid's bands did tie her faster, By the liking of...
Page 87 - In the higher and middle classes of society, it is a melancholy and distressing sight to observe, not unfrequently, a man of a noble and ingenuous disposition, once feelingly alive to a sense of honour and integrity, gradually sinking under the pressure of circumstances, making his excuses at first with a blush of conscious shame, afraid of seeing the faces of his friends from whom he may have borrowed money, reduced to the meanest tricks and subterfuges to delay or avoid the payment of...