A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the 'Basbleu' Society (1717-1806

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1906 - 263 páginas
 

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CHAPTER
1
II
11
III
56
VI
125
VII
161
IX
189
LORD BATH
202
XI
215
XII
227

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Página 88 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 119 - And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Página 118 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Página 234 - WITHIN the churchyard side by side, Are many long low graves, And some have stones set over them, — On some the green grass waves.
Página 211 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Página 94 - It is indeed the same system as mine but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain, but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself, but you express me better than I could express myself.
Página 235 - There, said they, is mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, the innumerable company of Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect.
Página 13 - ... and bathed up to the ears in dew, and at the end of it perhaps forced to scratch her way through the bushes of a close shady lane, never before frequented by any animal but birds. In short, towards the conclusion of our walk, we make such deplorable ragged figures, that I wonder some prudent country justice does not take us up for vagrants, and cramp our rambling genius in the stocks.

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