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... happy ? —And is it a crime to acknowledge , that they are so well disposed to a worthy object ? A worthy object , I repeat ; for that is what will warrant the open heart . What a littleness is there in the custom that com- pels us to be ...
... happy ? —And is it a crime to acknowledge , that they are so well disposed to a worthy object ? A worthy object , I repeat ; for that is what will warrant the open heart . What a littleness is there in the custom that com- pels us to be ...
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... happy girl . Miss Grandison has just now told her sister what passed between us . Lady L- says , she would not have been Miss Grandison , in taking the letter , by what means soever come at ; for how , said she , did I know what secrets ...
... happy girl . Miss Grandison has just now told her sister what passed between us . Lady L- says , she would not have been Miss Grandison , in taking the letter , by what means soever come at ; for how , said she , did I know what secrets ...
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... happy temper is Miss Grandison ! She was much affected with the scene that passed between us ; but all is over with her already . One lesson upon her harp- sichord sets every thing right with her . She has been rallying Lord L with as ...
... happy temper is Miss Grandison ! She was much affected with the scene that passed between us ; but all is over with her already . One lesson upon her harp- sichord sets every thing right with her . She has been rallying Lord L with as ...
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... happy acquaintance with Miss Byron , to think that the age is not entirely lost to a sense of virtue and goodness . See we not how every body reveres her ? Even a Sir Hargrave Pollexfen , a Gre- ville , a Fenwick , men of free lives ...
... happy acquaintance with Miss Byron , to think that the age is not entirely lost to a sense of virtue and goodness . See we not how every body reveres her ? Even a Sir Hargrave Pollexfen , a Gre- ville , a Fenwick , men of free lives ...
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... happy , however , that my be- haviour and frankness on the occasion are not disapproved at Selby - house , and Shirley - manor , and by you , my Lucy . And here let that matter rest . Should I not begin to think of going back to you all ...
... happy , however , that my be- haviour and frankness on the occasion are not disapproved at Selby - house , and Shirley - manor , and by you , my Lucy . And here let that matter rest . Should I not begin to think of going back to you all ...
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affected afraid answer Bartlett Beaumont behaviour believe bishop Bologna brother called Camilla Charlotte chevalier child Colnebrook compliment Count of Belvedere creature daughter dear despise distress earnest Emily endeavour eyes fault favour fortune girl give guardian Halden hand happy Harriet hear heard heart hinted honour hope indulgent Italy knew Lady Clementina Lady L Laurana leave letter looked Lord G Lord L lordship Lucy madam mamma marchioness marquis marriage marry mentina mind Miss Byron MISS GR Miss Grandison Miss Jervois mother Naples never noble Northamptonshire O'Hara obliged occasion once passion perhaps pity poor Porretta Pray proposed question religion sake seemed servant shew sigh Signor Jeronymo SIR CH Sir Charles Grandison sister soon soul speak spirit stept sure talk tears tell tender thing thought tion told took unhappy Urbino wife wish woman women word worthy young lady
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Página 396 - Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon; for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds
Página 252 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 245 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 396 - I AM black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Página 257 - minuter discriminations," a good example being the following treatment of Sir Charles's alterations at Grandison Hall: He has a great taste . . . yet not an expensive one; for he studies situation and convenience, and pretends not to level hills, or to force and distort nature; but to help it, as he finds it, without letting art be seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it.
Página 165 - ... given up. Sir Charles afterwards addressed himself to me jointly with his sisters. I see, with great pleasure, said he, the happy understanding that there is between you three ladies : it is a demonstration, to me, of surpassing goodness in you all. To express myself in the words of an ingenious man, to whose works your sex, and if yours, ours, are more obliged, than to those of any single man in the British world, ' Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship...