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... person did not give promise of the more correct beauty of her mother , but it exhibited graces equally attractive . Though her height threatened not to attain the statute of dignity , her form was cast in the most perfect mold , and her ...
... person did not give promise of the more correct beauty of her mother , but it exhibited graces equally attractive . Though her height threatened not to attain the statute of dignity , her form was cast in the most perfect mold , and her ...
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... person had attained its final perfection , was injudicious ; and brought her to consent to delay , by making her feel that the palm of beauty , and the meed of admiration , included the exalta- tion , that was in reality the coveted ...
... person had attained its final perfection , was injudicious ; and brought her to consent to delay , by making her feel that the palm of beauty , and the meed of admiration , included the exalta- tion , that was in reality the coveted ...
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... person much inferior in beauty ; had a juvenility of appearance that would have enabled her to affect youth , if a niece , a head and shoulders taller than herself , had not warned her of detection . She had more valuable qualities than ...
... person much inferior in beauty ; had a juvenility of appearance that would have enabled her to affect youth , if a niece , a head and shoulders taller than herself , had not warned her of detection . She had more valuable qualities than ...
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... with pleasure , that at the expira ticn of five years Edmund was expected to settle at home , and that already a year and half had expired of his term with Mr. Raw storne . She would have a description of his person 72 ZELUCA .
... with pleasure , that at the expira ticn of five years Edmund was expected to settle at home , and that already a year and half had expired of his term with Mr. Raw storne . She would have a description of his person 72 ZELUCA .
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... person , he stood in no need of the embellishing ex- ternals , that , in the military , in the gross , constitute the leading attraction of the man . And she herself suggested that , with his family , he might , as a merchant , be ...
... person , he stood in no need of the embellishing ex- ternals , that , in the military , in the gross , constitute the leading attraction of the man . And she herself suggested that , with his family , he might , as a merchant , be ...
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admiration admitted amusement answered approbation ascer asked aunt Avonport ball beauty believe Captain Cassenberd cousin Cowerby cried Wolsey cried Zeluca dance daughter dear declaration delight Delvayne's Dereborough dread effectually encreased endeavouring envy Erde Erdestone Erdestone's exclaimed exhibited eyes favour fear feel felt flattering gave girl give governess Greystone happy heart hint honour hope imputed interrupted invitation Jane St knew Lady Bridget Lady Kitty Lady Nagle Lady Naglefort Lady Whitelock ladyship laughed looked Lord Edward luca Marianne's marriage Medlicott ment mind Miss Bessaly Miss Delvayne Miss Emcotts Miss Marlowe Miss O'Keefe Miss St morning mother natural never observed opinion pain passion pique pleasure portunity praise pursued recollected rendered repeated reply rianne shew Sir John Dawlish smile solicitude Spire sure temper thing thought tion tivated tokens tone trepan triumph turn uncon Valcrest vayne whispered wish Wolsey's woman young
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Página 282 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 341 - Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t
Página 1 - ... of Burnet's comparison between him and Tiberius ever felt, I imagine, by any one but its author. He was gay and affable, and, if incapable of the sentiments belonging to pride of a laudable sort, he was at least free from haughtiness and insolence. The praise of politeness, which the Stoics are not perhaps wrong in classing among the moral virtues, provided they admit it to be one of the lowest order, has never been denied him; and he had in an eminent degree that facility of temper which, though...
Página 64 - Immediate cause of pleasure. The good opinion of mankind, expressed in praise, pleases us by the same necessary and inexplicable laws according to which mutual affection pleases us, or according to which we are gratified by music, or the beauties and gales of spring. To a certain extent therefore it is innocent to admit the gratification of this desire, simply for the sake of this pleasure. But to what extent ? It is very apparent that this desire has, if I may so express it, an immense voracity.