Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer's Family, and a Few Select FriendsJ. Moyes, Greville street., 1823 - 384 pàgines |
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Pàgina iv
... recollection the pleasing delights ( shaded with some bitter remembrances ) they have afforded me , in tracing the features of those in whom my fondest attachment centres . TO HER then , the Wife of my bosom , I dedicate them ...
... recollection the pleasing delights ( shaded with some bitter remembrances ) they have afforded me , in tracing the features of those in whom my fondest attachment centres . TO HER then , the Wife of my bosom , I dedicate them ...
Pàgina 14
... recollection of so much worth ; her dear memory " will outlive " those tokens , it is engraven in all our hearts . Be a father to the dear boys , and you will be the friend of him , who , upon all occasions , will be proud to be thought ...
... recollection of so much worth ; her dear memory " will outlive " those tokens , it is engraven in all our hearts . Be a father to the dear boys , and you will be the friend of him , who , upon all occasions , will be proud to be thought ...
Pàgina 42
... recollection of your kind attention to her during our short stay at Weobly will never be effaced from her mind . I do not know any thing that would afford me more gratification than to have you present among your group of grandchildren ...
... recollection of your kind attention to her during our short stay at Weobly will never be effaced from her mind . I do not know any thing that would afford me more gratification than to have you present among your group of grandchildren ...
Pàgina 53
... it as you think proper . i I remember the old saying you allude to , which , if my recollection serve me right , is , that " too many cooks spoil the broth ; " and that when doctors differ , who shall agree ? but you may tell Miss Weales ...
... it as you think proper . i I remember the old saying you allude to , which , if my recollection serve me right , is , that " too many cooks spoil the broth ; " and that when doctors differ , who shall agree ? but you may tell Miss Weales ...
Pàgina 105
... recollection of it fills me with regret ; for I never saw so elegant a structure as the first I have named : it is , or may be called , a model of simplicity and fine taste . We reached Hull about eight o'clock . Next morning I ...
... recollection of it fills me with regret ; for I never saw so elegant a structure as the first I have named : it is , or may be called , a model of simplicity and fine taste . We reached Hull about eight o'clock . Next morning I ...
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acquainted affectionate Father affliction afford agreeable amiable assure attention B. O. To CAPTAIN B. O. To MASTER B. O. To MISS believe BENJAMIN OAKLEY BLACKHEATH BRITTON brother Captain Butcher CHARTER HOUSE CHRISTIANA Clapham Common comfort consolation DEAR ADRIANA DEAR BENJAMIN dear boy DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR December December 15 December 28 December 9 delight dine distress Drury Drury Lane Theatre duty EDWARD YOUNGE esteem express Farran favour feel friendship girls give glad to find happiness Harrogate heart honour hope Horsley indulgence JOHN BUTCHER Kean kind letter loving Father mamma March 22 melancholy mind MISS OAKLEY morning mother night November November 22 o'clock occasion offer Parrott pleasure poor pray proud R. R. OAKLEY Ravenhill received recollection regret request RICHARD OAKLEY Royal Exchange satisfaction sincerely sisters Tavistock Place tell thank theatre thing Tooting Lodge town WEOBLY wish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 366 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Pàgina 337 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Pàgina 380 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pàgina 362 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Pàgina 288 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Pàgina 244 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 308 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Pàgina 281 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Pàgina 333 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Pàgina 259 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art; Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart ! If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If nature touch thee, drop a tear : — If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.