Pneumanee; or, The fairy of the nineteenth century, Volume 2 |
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... play them off to such advantage , would not lose some of its triumph by the cruel know- ledge that wrinkles were lying in wait , to bring neglect and mortifying indif- ference from your whole world of ad- mirers ! " — " O , spare me ...
... play them off to such advantage , would not lose some of its triumph by the cruel know- ledge that wrinkles were lying in wait , to bring neglect and mortifying indif- ference from your whole world of ad- mirers ! " — " O , spare me ...
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... play battle- dore , and never wish for other events or other society . " She contrived to make every little event , every walk , and every thought interesting to Charles ; - and as she wrote a little every day , her letters kept him ...
... play battle- dore , and never wish for other events or other society . " She contrived to make every little event , every walk , and every thought interesting to Charles ; - and as she wrote a little every day , her letters kept him ...
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... the num- berless parcels that filled the hall . What an obliging musician , they ex- -claimed , to come unsolicited to play a hand - organ , immediately upon their arrival ! - L A arrival ! -what a charming uproar of coaches ! -what 64.
... the num- berless parcels that filled the hall . What an obliging musician , they ex- -claimed , to come unsolicited to play a hand - organ , immediately upon their arrival ! - L A arrival ! -what a charming uproar of coaches ! -what 64.
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... approbation at Lu- cy's growing prudence . They re- quested to hear more ' upon this sub- ject , and learnt that Pneumanee had got for them a private box for the play . play . Every thing was again delight and rapture ; 66.
... approbation at Lu- cy's growing prudence . They re- quested to hear more ' upon this sub- ject , and learnt that Pneumanee had got for them a private box for the play . play . Every thing was again delight and rapture ; 66.
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Pneumanee (fict.name.) play . Every thing was again delight and rapture ; dinner was no object ; the carriage was soon at the door ; and after a thousand injunctions about the lame horse , and ten thou- sand fears that London would ...
Pneumanee (fict.name.) play . Every thing was again delight and rapture ; dinner was no object ; the carriage was soon at the door ; and after a thousand injunctions about the lame horse , and ten thou- sand fears that London would ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration amusement artless asked babilities beach beauty believe blessings blushed boards body carriage Charles charming comfort dear creature dear Fanny dear girls dear Lucy dear Pneumanee dearest delightful Devil to pay dinner dread dress elegant epergne Fanny's father fear feel felt foolscap 8vo friends gaily give habits half-crown hand happy HATCHARD hear heard heart Hermit hoped impatient kind knew laugh leave letter London look Lord R.'s Lordship mamma manee married mind Miss Volatile Mitre morning necklace never old nurse opinion pain papa Parsonage party peated pelisses pleasant pleasure Pneu Pneuma poor recollection Rector Rector's wife remark replied returned Rock-house round Rupert Street scene shew smiled soon splendour sure talk taste Teignmouth tell thing thought took tranquillity village vols walk warm wife wish young ladies
Passagens conhecidas
Página 181 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 182 - With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight without thee is sweet.
Página 182 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Página 12 - His all-searching eye will assuredly never pursue us into those little corners of our lives, much less will His justice select them for punishment without the general context of our existence, by which faults may be sometimes found to have grown out of virtues and very many of our heaviest offences to have been grafted by human imperfection upon the best and kindest of our affections.
Página 11 - God have mercy upon us ! — instead of standing before him in judgment with the hopes and consolations of Christians, we must call upon the mountains to cover us ; for which of us can present, for Omniscient examination, a pure, unspotted, and faultless course ? But I humbly expect that the benevolent Author of our being will judge us as I have been pointing out for your example. Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them ; — if he discovers...
Página 4 - He was wont to say that wisdom lay in the heart, and not in the head ; and that it was not the want of knowledge, but the perverseness of the will, that filled men's actions with folly and their lives with .disorder.
Página 12 - Holding up the great volume of our lives in his hands, and regarding the general scope of them; if He discovers benevolence, charity, and good-will to man beating in the heart, where He alone can look; if He finds that our conduct, though often forced out of the path by our infirmities, has been in general well directed; his allsearching...