The midwife: or, The old woman's magazine, Volum 11750 |
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Pàgina 20
... spoken to , but with some Expreffion of Anger , or Dislike . She had yet the Pleasure of dreffing me like a Child , and I know not when I fhould have been thought thought fit to change my Habit , had I not 20 L The MIDWIFE .
... spoken to , but with some Expreffion of Anger , or Dislike . She had yet the Pleasure of dreffing me like a Child , and I know not when I fhould have been thought thought fit to change my Habit , had I not 20 L The MIDWIFE .
Pàgina 37
... Some few there are whom paltry Paffions guide , Defert each Day , and fly from Side to Side ; Others like Swifs , love Fighting as their Trade , For beat , or beating they must all be paid . - Sacred to SHAKESPEAR was this Spot defign'd ...
... Some few there are whom paltry Paffions guide , Defert each Day , and fly from Side to Side ; Others like Swifs , love Fighting as their Trade , For beat , or beating they must all be paid . - Sacred to SHAKESPEAR was this Spot defign'd ...
Pàgina 48
... Some few Miftakes may therefore have happen'd , which the candid Reader will excufe and correct . Now I am Speaking of Mifs Cibber , I must do her the Justice to obferve , that he play'd the Part much better than cou'd be expected from ...
... Some few Miftakes may therefore have happen'd , which the candid Reader will excufe and correct . Now I am Speaking of Mifs Cibber , I must do her the Justice to obferve , that he play'd the Part much better than cou'd be expected from ...
Pàgina 65
Midwife. Some Reflections on the Neglect of the Greek Language . By Mrs. Midnight ; humbly addrefs'd to all the ... Some of you have undoubtedly heard of the Excellencies of this Tongue ; fome few of you , perhaps , have admired and ...
Midwife. Some Reflections on the Neglect of the Greek Language . By Mrs. Midnight ; humbly addrefs'd to all the ... Some of you have undoubtedly heard of the Excellencies of this Tongue ; fome few of you , perhaps , have admired and ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 64 - ... to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over —
Pàgina 64 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Pàgina 219 - Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. ROMEO. I would I were thy bird.
Pàgina 65 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not...
Pàgina 64 - At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper.
Pàgina 137 - At length a glimmering light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the forerunner of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day. However, the fire fell at a distance from us : then again we were immersed in thick darkness, and a heavy shower of ashes rained upon us, which we were obliged every now and then to...
Pàgina 62 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
Pàgina 135 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Pàgina 134 - The court which led to his apartment being now almost filled with stones and ashes, if he had continued there any time longer, it would have been impossible for him to have made his way out; it was thought proper therefore to awaken him.
Pàgina 136 - Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid, the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open...