A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the 'Basbleu' Society (1717-1806Smith, Elder, & Company, 1906 - 263 páginas |
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A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the 'Bas ... Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen Visualização integral - 1906 |
A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the 'Basbleu ... Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen Visualização integral - 1906 |
A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the 'Basbleu ... Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen Visualização integral - 1906 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
aching head admiration amusement ANNE BRONTË appear Archbishop Secker assemblies Aston Abbotts Author Bas Bleu beauty Bishop body Canterbury Carter declared Carter found Carter wrote Catharine Talbot Chapone CHARLOTTE BRONTË cheerful Church coach comfort conversation creatures daughter Deal dear death Dinton duty Elizabeth Carter English enjoy Epictetus exclaimed Facsimile Fanny Burney father fear French friends Full-page Illustrations genius Greek happy heart honour human humour Johnson Kempston Lady learning letters literary live London look Lord Bath Lord Monboddo Madam Carter manner marriage married mind Miss Carter Miss Talbot Montagu mortal neighbours never PATRICK BRONTË perpetual philosopher Photogravure pleasure poems poor Portrait possessed Princess Queen sense Sir William Brockman Small demy 8vo society soul spirit Stoics talk thing Thomas THOMAS HAYTER THOMAS SECKER thought tion translation Vesey Vesey's walk William WILLIAM PULTENEY wish woman Woodcuts
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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.