Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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... He was charmed with the effect , and throwing himself into a reading chair of exquisite invention , " I will here , " said he , " pass the greatest part of my time ; the treasures of science are at my command , and he who has them , has ...
... He was charmed with the effect , and throwing himself into a reading chair of exquisite invention , " I will here , " said he , " pass the greatest part of my time ; the treasures of science are at my command , and he who has them , has ...
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... said she would desire her sisters to pick the freshest strawberries for their repast , and would herself go to the dairy for cream . Tremaine intreated she would not leave them . " Oh ! " said she , " I shall be back in an instant ...
... said she would desire her sisters to pick the freshest strawberries for their repast , and would herself go to the dairy for cream . Tremaine intreated she would not leave them . " Oh ! " said she , " I shall be back in an instant ...
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... said this inquiringly ; and Tremaine found it necessary to announce his name , -intimating that he was of Northamptonshire , and travelling for amusement ; but carefully concealing his situation in the world . Mrs. Belson , who had ...
... said this inquiringly ; and Tremaine found it necessary to announce his name , -intimating that he was of Northamptonshire , and travelling for amusement ; but carefully concealing his situation in the world . Mrs. Belson , who had ...
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... confession ! " " I have heard none , " answered Tremaine , " and I wait an honest avowal . ” “ You shall have it , " said Eugenia— “ I did love him , to a degree . " " To a degree ! could you then measure love 38 TREMAINE .
... confession ! " " I have heard none , " answered Tremaine , " and I wait an honest avowal . ” “ You shall have it , " said Eugenia— “ I did love him , to a degree . " " To a degree ! could you then measure love 38 TREMAINE .
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... said Tremaine , " that I am to be plagued already with the natives ? " He would have excused himself ; but the servant told him he had said he was at home , and Mr. Melcombe was at that instant searching for him . " Ill - bred enough , " ...
... said Tremaine , " that I am to be plagued already with the natives ? " He would have excused himself ; but the servant told him he had said he was at home , and Mr. Melcombe was at that instant searching for him . " Ill - bred enough , " ...
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Anne's Hill answered Careless answered Evelyn answered Tremaine asked Tremaine beautiful Belford Belmont Belson better breakfast called CHAP charming confess continued Evelyn conversation court cried Tremaine daughter dinner Doctor Eugenia Evelyn Hall exclaimed Tremaine eyes father feeling felt fortune garden gave gentleman Georgina give happy heart honour horse interest Jack Jack's lady laugh least leisure Les Ormes less live Lord Madame de Staël maine manner Mary ment mind Miss Evelyn Monson morning mother nature neighbour ness never Northamptonshire observed Tremaine party perceiving perhaps person philosopher pleased pleasure pray Qui Tam quizzed racter recollect refined replied Evelyn replied Tremaine retirement returned Evelyn ride Ryecroft scenes seemed SHAKSPEARE shew Sir Marmaduke smiled solitude sort Squire suppose sure sweet syllabub taste tell thing thou thought tion Tremaine's truth Vellum walk Whig wish wonder Woodington Yorkshire young
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Página 299 - I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Página 313 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 18 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...
Página 313 - ... silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which "they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Página 220 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 197 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 84 - IN that soft season, when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers; When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray; As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest, And love itself was banish'd from my breast, (What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer slumbers spread their golden wings) A train of phantoms in wild order rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose.
Página 286 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 216 - His grace retired to Claremont, where, for about a fortnight, he played at being a country gentleman. Guns and green frocks were bought, and at past sixty he affected to turn sportsman ; but getting wet in his feet, he hurried back to London in a fright, and his country was once more blessed with his assistance.
Página 216 - This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.