The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... perhaps , more applicable to the latter than to the former ; since the very first lesson a woman receives , is to disguise her real sentiments : this en- genders artifice ; artifice in time , annihilates the feeling which originally ...
... perhaps , more applicable to the latter than to the former ; since the very first lesson a woman receives , is to disguise her real sentiments : this en- genders artifice ; artifice in time , annihilates the feeling which originally ...
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... perhaps , when we look through the world a observe the various arts which the insidious and vicious the other sex spread around them , this coldness may be deem necessary as a defence ; and mothers and governesses find excuse for the ...
... perhaps , when we look through the world a observe the various arts which the insidious and vicious the other sex spread around them , this coldness may be deem necessary as a defence ; and mothers and governesses find excuse for the ...
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... Perhaps , at this moment , her memory glanced back to the time when her own heart leaped and bounded with all the young ener- gies of incipient feeling ; -when the tear of pity , or the smile of gladness , was always ready to spring ...
... Perhaps , at this moment , her memory glanced back to the time when her own heart leaped and bounded with all the young ener- gies of incipient feeling ; -when the tear of pity , or the smile of gladness , was always ready to spring ...
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... perhaps looking only with envy upon these qualifications without possessing any of them , and whose only claim to admiration was a title or an estate unencumbered by any thing but his own dulness and stupidity . Yet this was precisely ...
... perhaps looking only with envy upon these qualifications without possessing any of them , and whose only claim to admiration was a title or an estate unencumbered by any thing but his own dulness and stupidity . Yet this was precisely ...
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... Perhaps , too , unknown to herself , she was influenced by the perfect silence of Augustus - a silence that was tacitly insinuated to have arisen from the certainty that he had obtained of her having no fortune . This idea she rejected ...
... Perhaps , too , unknown to herself , she was influenced by the perfect silence of Augustus - a silence that was tacitly insinuated to have arisen from the certainty that he had obtained of her having no fortune . This idea she rejected ...
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Page 53 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 234 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 231 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 156 - I render you ; Only, this one : — Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see.
Page 72 - Which come, in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 223 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.
Page 212 - To charm me with thy softness : 'tis in vain : Thou can'st no more betray, nor I be ruin'd. The hours of folly, and of fond delight, Are wasted all, and fled ; those that remain Are doom'd to weeping, anguish, and repentance.
Page 226 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 84 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII She knew the Latin — that is, 'the Lord's prayer...
Page 241 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...