Husband Hunting, Or, The Mother and Daughters: A Tale of Fashionable Life, Band 3G.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, 1825 |
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... Flatter . He was presumed to be poor , and was treated with correspondent correspondent neglect ; but he still made his way , and was even a favourite with the fair of a certain age . Youth fled him ; and beauty turned ; away its smiles ...
... Flatter . He was presumed to be poor , and was treated with correspondent correspondent neglect ; but he still made his way , and was even a favourite with the fair of a certain age . Youth fled him ; and beauty turned ; away its smiles ...
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... Flatter's connoisseurship found loves and graces , and , as a matter of principle , communi- cated his discovery to their possessors . Jack declared , that in his time he had heard much of Scepticism , but had never met with any ; that ...
... Flatter's connoisseurship found loves and graces , and , as a matter of principle , communi- cated his discovery to their possessors . Jack declared , that in his time he had heard much of Scepticism , but had never met with any ; that ...
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... Flatter , and closeted him ..... .9 Here she threw off all disguise , which she knew would have been no disguise to his penetrating eye , and plainly and with many a bitter invective on the tar- diness of titled male flirts , the malevo ...
... Flatter , and closeted him ..... .9 Here she threw off all disguise , which she knew would have been no disguise to his penetrating eye , and plainly and with many a bitter invective on the tar- diness of titled male flirts , the malevo ...
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... Flatter thenceforth reasoned no more . He had now found that Seep- ticism was not altogether lost to the world . " Retirement , " said the lady , with a smile , " yes , by all means , nothing could be so delightful to all my tastes ...
... Flatter thenceforth reasoned no more . He had now found that Seep- ticism was not altogether lost to the world . " Retirement , " said the lady , with a smile , " yes , by all means , nothing could be so delightful to all my tastes ...
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... Flatter , yawning and rising from his chair . He at once resumed his old tone . " Oh yes , infinitely fine girls , every thing on their side . Whom will they have ? They would be , as the poet says , the cruellest shes alive , to leave ...
... Flatter , yawning and rising from his chair . He at once resumed his old tone . " Oh yes , infinitely fine girls , every thing on their side . Whom will they have ? They would be , as the poet says , the cruellest shes alive , to leave ...
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Seite 1 - Of comfort no man speak; Let's talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs," &c., easing his heart, and consuming all that is manly in words; never anywhere seeking comfort in despair, but mistaking the moment of exhaustion for quiet. This is finely contrasted in Bolingbroke's struggle of haughty feeling with temporary dissimulation, in which the latter says — "Harry Bolingbroke...
Seite 167 - Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Seite 281 - 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 204 - Flatter had sat with his elbow on the table, and his chin resting on his hand, looking at the lady's agitated visage.
Seite 137 - WHEN we two parted . In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss ; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. The dew of the morning Sunk chill on my brow — It felt like the warning Of what I feel now. Thy vows are all broken, And light is thy fame ; I hear thy name spoken, And share in its shame. They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear ; A...
Seite 308 - Soviet constitution is not worth the paper it is written on — it is a straight piece of propaganda calculated to deceive and mislead the gullible throughout the world.
Seite 124 - I bring you, brother, most unwelcome news ; But since of force you are to hear it told, I thought a friend and brother best might tell it : Therefore, before I speak, arm well your mind, And think you're to be touched even to the quick; That so, prepared for ill, you may be less Surprised to hear the worst.
Seite 151 - I think it would have been a great comfort to her could that have been proved to be the case, and her cousin exonerated. When she did speak, it was in a voice so low and broken as to be almost unintelligible. " Poor, poor Merle! No wonder he has looked so ill and wretched these many months.