The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... talents for conversation and powers of entertainment had made him a frequent and a wel- come guest at her father's table . To procure establishments for a numerous family , was the great and only ambition of her mother , Lady Mary ...
... talents for conversation and powers of entertainment had made him a frequent and a wel- come guest at her father's table . To procure establishments for a numerous family , was the great and only ambition of her mother , Lady Mary ...
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... talent , and entertainment , could make them ; and she felt proud in the contemplation of her success , as three married daughters sometimes graced the paternal board , while the scions of many of her contemporary rival matrons yet ...
... talent , and entertainment , could make them ; and she felt proud in the contemplation of her success , as three married daughters sometimes graced the paternal board , while the scions of many of her contemporary rival matrons yet ...
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... talent is employed , together with the perpetual exercise of ingenuity and eloquence , it generally makes the younger brother who is brought up to the bar , a pleasanter fellow and a more agreeable lover than the elder one who is ...
... talent is employed , together with the perpetual exercise of ingenuity and eloquence , it generally makes the younger brother who is brought up to the bar , a pleasanter fellow and a more agreeable lover than the elder one who is ...
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... talent which excites in them only admiration ; and they seem to forget that in younger minds and hearts this sensation is too likely to be accompanied by softer feelings , which may give a colour to future existence . Happily for all ...
... talent which excites in them only admiration ; and they seem to forget that in younger minds and hearts this sensation is too likely to be accompanied by softer feelings , which may give a colour to future existence . Happily for all ...
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... talents , instead of the evanescent feeling which would last only so long as he could afford entertainment . He ... talent which was considered by her mother only as an appendage to her party . There was an artless buoyancy in the ...
... talents , instead of the evanescent feeling which would last only so long as he could afford entertainment . He ... talent which was considered by her mother only as an appendage to her party . There was an artless buoyancy in the ...
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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...