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
... tell you , Sidney , if a man is not reasonable at seven - and - twen- ty , he makes but a sorry figure in the world . " " My dear father , " replied Wentworth , " we will not argue this point . I believe that my reason is yet in its ...
... tell you , Sidney , if a man is not reasonable at seven - and - twen- ty , he makes but a sorry figure in the world . " " My dear father , " replied Wentworth , " we will not argue this point . I believe that my reason is yet in its ...
Pàgina 22
... tell my dear sir Ormsby that I wish he would command his grown baby to go to Adder- field , and be nursed by dame Corbet . ' " ་ ་ " What charming spirits lady Nugent has ! " said Sidney , addressing lady Layton . " I never knew a woman ...
... tell my dear sir Ormsby that I wish he would command his grown baby to go to Adder- field , and be nursed by dame Corbet . ' " ་ ་ " What charming spirits lady Nugent has ! " said Sidney , addressing lady Layton . " I never knew a woman ...
Pàgina 25
... tell you that it is the admixture of character which , like the light and shadow in a portrait , gives the colouring to every thing which partakes of nature ; and if you expect miracles to be wrought in your fa- vour , you are very ...
... tell you that it is the admixture of character which , like the light and shadow in a portrait , gives the colouring to every thing which partakes of nature ; and if you expect miracles to be wrought in your fa- vour , you are very ...
Pàgina 64
... tell me that you knew I was at home , and thought I should be glad to see you . " " Poh ! this is folly , " replied lord Oster- ly . " Wentworth , you are considered a very blunt fellow . I have broken the ice , " continued the peer ...
... tell me that you knew I was at home , and thought I should be glad to see you . " " Poh ! this is folly , " replied lord Oster- ly . " Wentworth , you are considered a very blunt fellow . I have broken the ice , " continued the peer ...
Pàgina 69
... tell me , my dear Wentworth , " said his lordship , " is lady Beverly such a divi- nity ? " " A mere mortal , I assure you , " said Sid- ney ; " quite the woman to foil your spi- rits , if not to oppress you with ennui . ” " Hah ! a ...
... tell me , my dear Wentworth , " said his lordship , " is lady Beverly such a divi- nity ? " " A mere mortal , I assure you , " said Sid- ney ; " quite the woman to foil your spi- rits , if not to oppress you with ennui . ” " Hah ! a ...
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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...
Pàgina 230 - The Inhabitants of Earth, or the Follies of Woman, a Novel, by AF Holstein, 3 vols 0 16 6 Julia de Vienne, 4 vols 1...
Pàgina 230 - Old English Baron, by Clara Reeve, 9th edition, plates 060 Ora and Juliet, or the Influence of First Principles, by the Author of Eva of Cambria, &c.
Pàgina 230 - A Winter's Tale, new edition, by the same Author, 4 vols ............. ......................... 1 OO Sir Ralph de Bigod, a Romance, by E. Moore, 4 vols..