The Roué, Volumen 1J. and J. Harper, 1828 |
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... perhaps , more applicable to the latter than to the former ; since the very first lesson a woman receives , is to disguise her real sentiments : this en- genders artifice ; artifice in time , annihilates the feeling which originally ...
... perhaps , more applicable to the latter than to the former ; since the very first lesson a woman receives , is to disguise her real sentiments : this en- genders artifice ; artifice in time , annihilates the feeling which originally ...
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... perhaps , when we look through the world and observe the various arts which the insidious and vicious of the other sex spread around them , this coldness may be deemed necessary as a defence ; and mothers and governesses find an excuse ...
... perhaps , when we look through the world and observe the various arts which the insidious and vicious of the other sex spread around them , this coldness may be deemed necessary as a defence ; and mothers and governesses find an excuse ...
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... Perhaps , at this moment , her memory glanced back to the time when her own heart leaped and bounded with all the young ener- gies of incipient feeling ; -when the tear of pity , or the smile of gladness , was always ready to spring ...
... Perhaps , at this moment , her memory glanced back to the time when her own heart leaped and bounded with all the young ener- gies of incipient feeling ; -when the tear of pity , or the smile of gladness , was always ready to spring ...
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... perhaps looking only with envy upon these qualifications without possessing any of them . and whose only claim to admiration was a title or an estate unencumbered by any thing but his own dulness and stupidity . Yet this was precisely ...
... perhaps looking only with envy upon these qualifications without possessing any of them . and whose only claim to admiration was a title or an estate unencumbered by any thing but his own dulness and stupidity . Yet this was precisely ...
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... Perhaps , too , unknown to herself , she was influenced by the perfect silence of Augustus - a silence that was tacitly insinuated to have arisen from the certainty that he had obtained of her having no fortune . This idea she rejected ...
... Perhaps , too , unknown to herself , she was influenced by the perfect silence of Augustus - a silence that was tacitly insinuated to have arisen from the certainty that he had obtained of her having no fortune . This idea she rejected ...
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Página 199 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Página 238 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Página 55 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 88 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 74 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling 'round it still.
Página 160 - Only, this one : — lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard ' with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Página 88 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity ; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII. She knew the Latin— that is,
Página 10 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 245 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...
Página 227 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.