The Englishman: A Novel : in Six VolumesPrinted at the Minerva-Press, for A.K. Newman and Company, Leadenhall-Street, 1812 |
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Pàgina 8
... respect to the sex in general , not to know that I should actually abhor the woman who claim- ed , rather than won my affections . " " You will be a miserable man , Sidney , " interrupted sir Ormsby . " These absurd notions might ...
... respect to the sex in general , not to know that I should actually abhor the woman who claim- ed , rather than won my affections . " " You will be a miserable man , Sidney , " interrupted sir Ormsby . " These absurd notions might ...
Pàgina 33
... respects accom- plished . She had married , in very early life , to the younger brother of a noble family , much her senior in years . If love had no share in the lady's feelings , gratitude should have bound her to her husband , by ...
... respects accom- plished . She had married , in very early life , to the younger brother of a noble family , much her senior in years . If love had no share in the lady's feelings , gratitude should have bound her to her husband , by ...
Pàgina 66
... respects to Beverly's bride . I hear she is devilish handsome ; and I wish to make my observations , and carry the report into a certain circle , for the pure purpose of exciting envy , malice , & c . & c . " " A most benevolent ...
... respects to Beverly's bride . I hear she is devilish handsome ; and I wish to make my observations , and carry the report into a certain circle , for the pure purpose of exciting envy , malice , & c . & c . " " A most benevolent ...
Pàgina 67
... respect- ed uncle . It is always dangerous to tam- per with the characters of women ; and when I assure you that you wound rather than flatter my feelings in the present in- stance , I am certain you will desist . " 66 My poor rejected ...
... respect- ed uncle . It is always dangerous to tam- per with the characters of women ; and when I assure you that you wound rather than flatter my feelings in the present in- stance , I am certain you will desist . " 66 My poor rejected ...
Pàgina 70
... respect of all who value goodness . " " How do you support yourself under this torrent of affected sentiment ? " asked our hero of lord Osterly , in a low voice . " Faith , if he was not very useful in a thousand thousand points , I ...
... respect of all who value goodness . " " How do you support yourself under this torrent of affected sentiment ? " asked our hero of lord Osterly , in a low voice . " Faith , if he was not very useful in a thousand thousand points , I ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 110 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Pàgina 167 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Pàgina 109 - Aye, who know you, For one, that courses up and down on errands, A stale retainer at Lord Timon's table ; A man grown great by making legs and cringes, By winding round a wanton spendthrift's heart, And gulling him at...
Pàgina 230 - Mortimer Hall, or the Labourer's Hire, by Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle, Author of the Three Old Maids, 4 vols..
Pàgina 213 - Neptune had produced, he observed that his blows might have been surer if his eyes had been placed near his horns. Venus herself was exposed to his satire ; and when the sneering god had found no fault in the body of the naked goddess, he observed, as she retired, that the noise of her feet was too loud, and greatly improper in the goddess of beauty. These illiberal reflections upon the gods were the cause that Momus was driven from heaven.
Pàgina 213 - Minerva had made, because the goddess had not made it movable, by which means a bad neighbourhood might be avoided. In the bull which Neptune had produced, he observed that his blows might have been, surer if his eyes had been placed near his horns. Venus herself was exposed to his satire ; and when the sneering god had found no fault in the body of the...
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