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... the properest time for walking in this hot weather . Mean time a cup was called for , which , in this same hot weather , was pronounced vastly pleasant , and my friend declared was more refreshing to him than the purest 14 THE MIRROR .
... the properest time for walking in this hot weather . Mean time a cup was called for , which , in this same hot weather , was pronounced vastly pleasant , and my friend declared was more refreshing to him than the purest 14 THE MIRROR .
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... called for the landlord , and desired him to send in a particular sort of wine , the flavour of which he highly commended . An old proverbial recipe was cited to him , by a red - faced gentleman at the bottom of the table , which ...
... called for the landlord , and desired him to send in a particular sort of wine , the flavour of which he highly commended . An old proverbial recipe was cited to him , by a red - faced gentleman at the bottom of the table , which ...
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... called the grand tour , be an advi- sable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of let- ters , wished to give me a liberal ...
... called the grand tour , be an advi- sable thing for persons in my circumstances and situation . I am the only son of a gentleman of fortune and family . My father , who was himself a man of let- ters , wished to give me a liberal ...
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... called at an improper time , and that the hours of London ( with which I was but little ac- quainted ) differed from those we had been accus- tomed to abroad . ..... In that belief I went to the Opera in the evening . I had not been ...
... called at an improper time , and that the hours of London ( with which I was but little ac- quainted ) differed from those we had been accus- tomed to abroad . ..... In that belief I went to the Opera in the evening . I had not been ...
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... called home , by accounts that his father lay dangerously ill . From that time a variety of accidents had pres vented our meeting . We now met as if we had parted but yesterday ; with the same freedom , the same warmth , the same glow ...
... called home , by accounts that his father lay dangerously ill . From that time a variety of accidents had pres vented our meeting . We now met as if we had parted but yesterday ; with the same freedom , the same warmth , the same glow ...
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Page 181 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Page 184 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Page 152 - That care, however, which watched his health, was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders, than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Page 263 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power 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.
Page 109 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth in a part of the army which was...
Page 319 - She turned — and beheld Sir Edward. His countenance had much of its former languor ; and when he took her hand, he cast on the earth a melancholy look, and seemed unable to speak his feelings. ' Are you not well, Sir Edward ?' said Louisa, with a voice faint and broken. — ' I am ill indeed,' said he, ' but my illness is of the mind.
Page 165 - The Scottish dialect is our ordinary suit ; the English is used only on solemn occasions. When a Scotsman therefore writes, he does it generally in trammels. His own native original language, which he hears spoken around him, he does not make use of ; but he expresses himself in a language in some respects foreign to him, and which he has acquired by study and observation.
Page 266 - ... of his uncle ; but his feeling, too powerful for his prudence, often breaks through that disguise which it seems to have been his original, and ought to have continued his invariable purpose to maintain, till an opportunity should present itself of accomplishing the revenge which he meditated.
Page 321 - ... and to blunt, for a while, the pangs of contrition. These were deeply aggravated by the recollection of her father: a father left in his age to feel his own misfortunes and his daughter's disgrace. Sir Edward was too generous not to think of providing for Venoni.
Page 270 - IN books, whether moral or amusing, there are no passages more captivating, both to the writer and the reader, than those delicate strokes of sentimental morality, which refer our actions to the determination of feeling.