Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald: Including Her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of Her Time. To which are Added The Massacre, and A Case of Conscience; Now First Published from Her Autograph Copies, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1833 - Authors, English |
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... soon caught her eye , and she boldly entered , late as it was , in the assumed character of a mil- liner's apprentice , whose mistress had occasion for her bed , on the arrival of some unexpected visitors from the country . The people ...
... soon caught her eye , and she boldly entered , late as it was , in the assumed character of a mil- liner's apprentice , whose mistress had occasion for her bed , on the arrival of some unexpected visitors from the country . The people ...
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... soon as she came home she quitted her lodgings , and went to her sister Huggins's , where she dined , and then with her came to her sister Hunt's . As company supped there , she had not an opportunity of reading her third letter to Mr ...
... soon as she came home she quitted her lodgings , and went to her sister Huggins's , where she dined , and then with her came to her sister Hunt's . As company supped there , she had not an opportunity of reading her third letter to Mr ...
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... soon , and very unwillingly laid by a full week to gain his strength and resume his arduous business in the company . It does not appear that his wife pursued her professional studies now , with the requisite ardour . She had a numerous ...
... soon , and very unwillingly laid by a full week to gain his strength and resume his arduous business in the company . It does not appear that his wife pursued her professional studies now , with the requisite ardour . She had a numerous ...
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... , not forgetting the bath itself ; and on the 18th , Mr. Inchbald having completed his en- gagement at Bristol , they left it , and arrived in London , without any striking occurrence . She soon re MRS . INCHBALD . 37.
... , not forgetting the bath itself ; and on the 18th , Mr. Inchbald having completed his en- gagement at Bristol , they left it , and arrived in London , without any striking occurrence . She soon re MRS . INCHBALD . 37.
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... soon re - established that intercourse with her sis- ters , which seems an irresistible instinct in her , and led to the happiest results for them : un- consciously she was then preparing in her mind a source of bounty , which never ...
... soon re - established that intercourse with her sis- ters , which seems an irresistible instinct in her , and led to the happiest results for them : un- consciously she was then preparing in her mind a source of bounty , which never ...
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Page 155 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 208 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
Page 208 - Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there!
Page 144 - Sir Giles Overreach, how is it with Your honourable daughter ? Has her honour Slept well to-night? or, will her honour please To accept this monkey, dog, or paraquit,5 (This is state in ladies), or my eldest son To be her page, and wait upon her trencher...
Page 145 - We worldly men, when we see friends and kinsmen Past hope sunk in their fortunes, lend no hand To lift them up, but rather set our feet Upon their heads, to press them to the bottom.
Page 276 - Guided by a wish, that the reflecting reader may experience the sensation, which an attention to circumstances like these, must excite ; he is desired to imagine seventeen years elapsed, since he has seen or heard of any of those persons who, in the foregoing part of this narrative have been introduced to his acquaintance ; — and then, supposing himself at the period of those seventeen years, follow the sequel of their history.
Page 340 - What mortal eye can fix'd behold? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep...
Page 41 - A course of small, quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing said upon it, leaves Nature for your mistress, and she fashions it to her mind.
Page 317 - ... but agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood ; as, " Thou art wiser than I ;" that is,
Page 282 - Save me!" Her voice unmanned him. His long-restrained tears now burst forth, and, seeing her relapsing into the swoon, he cried out eagerly to recall her. Her name did not, however, come to his recollection — nor any name but this : " Miss Milner — dear Miss Milner...