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... reason of this late alarm ! Accents which at once bespoke pity , and claimed from the humanised mind immediate suc- cour , reached the ear of the interrogator to the following purport : " Alas ! if you refuse me entrance , here must I ...
... reason of this late alarm ! Accents which at once bespoke pity , and claimed from the humanised mind immediate suc- cour , reached the ear of the interrogator to the following purport : " Alas ! if you refuse me entrance , here must I ...
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... reason of my return last night ; in passing through Duke - street , some trifling accident happened to the chaise wheel , by jolting against another car- riage . The servant intreated me to get out , and being almost opposite to Mrs ...
... reason of my return last night ; in passing through Duke - street , some trifling accident happened to the chaise wheel , by jolting against another car- riage . The servant intreated me to get out , and being almost opposite to Mrs ...
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... reason ; I have promised to protect your innocence , nor can I securely do it any other way . ' So saying she hastily rose , the tear glittering in her eye , and retired . " CHAPTER VI . NARRATIVE CONTINUED . But happy they ! LOUISA . 35.
... reason ; I have promised to protect your innocence , nor can I securely do it any other way . ' So saying she hastily rose , the tear glittering in her eye , and retired . " CHAPTER VI . NARRATIVE CONTINUED . But happy they ! LOUISA . 35.
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... reason , would she ever consent to a clandestine proceeding , and risk displeasing a husband , whose every desire seems law ? ' I then tried to recollect each word he uttered the evening before , which my confusion at that time ...
... reason , would she ever consent to a clandestine proceeding , and risk displeasing a husband , whose every desire seems law ? ' I then tried to recollect each word he uttered the evening before , which my confusion at that time ...
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... reason ; and it was much feared , if even her life was spared , that her intellects were quite ruined . " I never left her for six weeks ; at the end of which she seemed to gather strength , but had no appearance of recollection or ...
... reason ; and it was much feared , if even her life was spared , that her intellects were quite ruined . " I never left her for six weeks ; at the end of which she seemed to gather strength , but had no appearance of recollection or ...
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Abbess Abbeville acquainted amiable answer arrived attended Augustus BARROIS Belmont Bennet bless blush bosom calash chaise continued convent cottage Countess Danvers Danvers's daughter dear girl dear Louisa dear Madam death desired dread Dublin esteem eyes father favor fear feel forget fortune friendship gentle gentleman give hand happiness harpsichord hastily heart heaven Henry honor hope hour immediately informed intreat Julia knew Lady Melville Lady Melville's leave letter London Lord Castlebrook Lord Danford Lord Gray Lord Melville lost Madame du Saint Maria Mary Masters meet misfortunes Miss Villars mistress morning mother never night Nottinghamshire obliged painful pardon Paris parlour passed peace possessed present promise rapture received recollection replied retired returned Louisa Rivers Rivers's Russel Scotland servant sigh sister soon sorrow spoke stranger tears tell tenderness thanks THOMSON'S SEASONS thought thousand pounds told Tom Jones uncle wish wound
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Page 1 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 97 - What is the world to them, Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all! Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish ; Something than beauty dearer, should they look Or on the mind, or mind-illumined face: Truth, goodness, honour, harmony, and love, The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven.
Page 17 - O thou best of parents! wipe thy tears; Or rather to Parental Nature pay The tears of grateful joy, who for a while Lent thee this younger self, this opening bloom Of thy enlightened mind and gentle worth.
Page 23 - Then Nature all Wears to the lover's eye a look of love ; And all the tumult of a guilty world) Tost by ungenerous passions, sinks away.
Page 86 - All nature fades extinct ; and she alone Heard, felt, and seen, possesses every thought, Fills every sense, and pants in every vein.
Page 144 - Cold, and averting from our neighbour's good; Then dark disgust and hatred, winding wiles, Coward deceit, and ruffian violence. At last, extinct each social feeling, fell And joyless inhumanity pervades And petrifies the heart.
Page 162 - And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, As ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, Still find them happy ; and consenting SPRING Sheds her own rosy garland on their heads : Till evening comes at last, serene and mild ; When after the long vernal day of life, Enamour'd more, as more remembrance swells With many a proof of recollected love, Together down they sink in social sleep ; Together freed, their gentle spirits fly To scenes where love and bliss immortal reign.
Page i - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Page 162 - These are the matchless joys of virtuous love; And thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, As ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, Still find them happy; and consenting SPRING Sheds her own rosy garland on their heads: Till evening...
Page 153 - The shameless hand be foully crirnson'cl o'er With blood of its own lord. Dreadful attempt ! Just reeking from self-slaughter, in a rage To rush into the presence of our Judge ; As if we...