Husband Hunting, Or, The Mother and Daughters: A Tale of Fashionable Life, Band 2Wells and Lilly, 1825 |
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... surprise him , and he pursued : " Dear girl , what have I done to deserve that glance ; I have brought you news that ought to make me welcome , even if no kinder interest - but I shall say no more on that topic . " " Your news ...
... surprise him , and he pursued : " Dear girl , what have I done to deserve that glance ; I have brought you news that ought to make me welcome , even if no kinder interest - but I shall say no more on that topic . " " Your news ...
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... surprise , purchase for her some handsome present peculiarly adapted to her taste , and try if she has any gratitude . I have been told that she is strongly attached to the harp , " thought the kind - hearted father ; " she shall have ...
... surprise , purchase for her some handsome present peculiarly adapted to her taste , and try if she has any gratitude . I have been told that she is strongly attached to the harp , " thought the kind - hearted father ; " she shall have ...
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... surprise and delight ; still not a word . He could bear it no longer .. " Catherine , my girl , do you see nothing to attract your attention ? " She was silent.- " Come , child , this is perhaps the fashionable habit of the people of ...
... surprise and delight ; still not a word . He could bear it no longer .. " Catherine , my girl , do you see nothing to attract your attention ? " She was silent.- " Come , child , this is perhaps the fashionable habit of the people of ...
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... surprise ; he was silent through perturbation ; but his look was full of inquiry . Courtney disclaimed all further knowledge . He regretted that he had been incidentally led into topics that must be so ' painful 52 HUSBAND HUNTING .
... surprise ; he was silent through perturbation ; but his look was full of inquiry . Courtney disclaimed all further knowledge . He regretted that he had been incidentally led into topics that must be so ' painful 52 HUSBAND HUNTING .
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... surprise ; " it seems but as yesterday when your mother sent me notice in all due form of having given an heir to the house of Courtney . Ay , those were the words ; and I remember how my brother , that unfortunate Edward , and myself ...
... surprise ; " it seems but as yesterday when your mother sent me notice in all due form of having given an heir to the house of Courtney . Ay , those were the words ; and I remember how my brother , that unfortunate Edward , and myself ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 187 - Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Seite 89 - Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Seite 63 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Seite 98 - I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Seite 255 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Seite 64 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Seite 13 - Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! Who builds his hope in air of your...
Seite 3 - Prince! I blush to think what I have said, But fate has wrested the confession from me; Go on, and prosper in the paths of honour, Thy virtue will excuse my passion for thee, And make the Gods propitious to our love.
Seite 21 - Not with the living ; They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em truths ; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces ; And, when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongues, Oh, how they cast to sink it ! and, defeated, (Soul-sick with poison) strike the monuments Where noble names lie sleeping, till they sweat, And the cold marble melt.
Seite 209 - Flatter had sat with his elbow on the table, and his chin resting on his hand, looking at the lady's agitated visage.