The Bachelor and the Married Man, Or, The Equilibrium of the Balance of Comfort, Volume 1Charles Wiley and Company no. 3 Wall Street., 1818 |
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... asked , " What " Of my own follies , in the first place ; that must be always understood ; but to converse on them is a species of couverte arrogance ; in the second , of your injus- tice to the sex . " " Of mine , Madam ? I profess I ...
... asked , " What " Of my own follies , in the first place ; that must be always understood ; but to converse on them is a species of couverte arrogance ; in the second , of your injus- tice to the sex . " " Of mine , Madam ? I profess I ...
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... asked Beauclair , " that she has dis- carded the family appellation ? " " To gratify a whim of Mr. William's : Florence Acton Hicks is her real name , but she is universally called Miss Acton . " " And what are the qualities that have ...
... asked Beauclair , " that she has dis- carded the family appellation ? " " To gratify a whim of Mr. William's : Florence Acton Hicks is her real name , but she is universally called Miss Acton . " " And what are the qualities that have ...
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... ; and recollect , that his logical propensities had their source in a female . " And , my dear Counsellor , cannot you trace your bachelor - hood to the same source ? " asked Fitzosbert . " Partly , perhaps ; and if you will stay 126.
... ; and recollect , that his logical propensities had their source in a female . " And , my dear Counsellor , cannot you trace your bachelor - hood to the same source ? " asked Fitzosbert . " Partly , perhaps ; and if you will stay 126.
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... asked Beauclair , with visible discontent . " Why after all your sapient argu- ments , " replied Fitzosbert in some con- fusion ; for this was not precisely the correct interpretation of his " after all . " Again the friends relapsed ...
... asked Beauclair , with visible discontent . " Why after all your sapient argu- ments , " replied Fitzosbert in some con- fusion ; for this was not precisely the correct interpretation of his " after all . " Again the friends relapsed ...
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... asked Beauclair , bowing to his wife and Rosa ; " who but a stoic , or - a Fitzosbert ? " Our hero was seriously displeased ; the parallel between the beautiful maid of the farm , and the one of the hall , had sug- gested itself to his ...
... asked Beauclair , bowing to his wife and Rosa ; " who but a stoic , or - a Fitzosbert ? " Our hero was seriously displeased ; the parallel between the beautiful maid of the farm , and the one of the hall , had sug- gested itself to his ...
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The Bachelor and the Married Man, Or The Equilibrium of the ..., Volume 1 Mrs. Ross Visualização integral - 1817 |
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acquaintance admiration answered appeared bachelor Bath Beau Beauclair beautiful believe bert better celibacy certainly character CHARLES FITZOSBERT clair Colonel Frazier conversation countenance Countess Courteney daugh dear delight Dumenil exclaimed eyes farmer's daughter fashion Fauconberg fear feel Fellows College felt female Fitz Fitzos Florence Acton Florence's folly gentleman girl gism give happiness haps heart Herbert Hicks honour hope imagine inclination infinitely knew Ladies Waldegrave Lady Anna Lady Cardonnel Lady Jemima Waldegrave Lady Leslie Lady Mary Harcourt Ladyship laugh live Lord Francis Ma'am marriage married matrimonial ment mind misanthrope Miss Acton Miss Cambell Murray never obliged observed opinion Ormsborough osbert perhaps pleasure possess postilion pride racter recollect rence ridiculous Rosa Cambell Rosa's scarcely senti sentiments Sir Philip Saville smile suppose sure syllogism tell thing thought tion Viscountess wife wish woman wonder word young Haywood
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Página 167 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Página 66 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 163 - And lawless surges swell against the skies, Till hope expires, and peril and dismay Wave their black ensigns on the watery way. Immortal train ! who guide the maze of song, To whom all science, arts, and arms belong, Who bid the trumpet of eternal fame Exalt the warrior's and the poet's name...
Página 64 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Página 165 - I SAW thee weep — the big bright tear Came o'er that eye of blue; And then methought it did appear A violet dropping dew...
Página 166 - As clouds from yonder sun receive A deep and mellow dye, Which scarce the shade of coming eve Can banish from the sky, Those smiles unto the moodiest mind Their own pure joy impart ; Their sunshine leaves a glow behind That lightens o'er the heart.
Página 67 - Home atill charms : and he, who, clad in fur, His rapid rein-deer drives o'er plains of snow, Would rather to the same wild tracts recur That various life had marked with joy or woe, Than wander, where the spicy breezes blowTo kiss the hyacinths of Azza's hair Rather, than where luxuriant summers glow, To the white mosses of his hills repair, Ami bid his antler-train the simple banquet share.
Página 151 - ... metal. Though an honourable title may be conveyed to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness, are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. If a man could bequeath his virtues by will, and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs, as certainly as he can his lands, a noble descent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege.
Página 1 - ... private convenience of me alone ? It does not. But is it not possible so to accommodate it, by my own particular industry ? If to accommodate man and beast, heaven and earth ; if this be beyond me, it is not possible. What consequence then follows ? Or can there be any other than this ? If I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of others; I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have existence.
Página 86 - It appears from what has been said, that to adult persons, who have fortune sufficient to provide for a family according to their rank and condition in life, and who are endued with the ordinary degrees of prudence necessary to manage a family, and educate children, it is a duty they owe to society, to marry.