| Fanny Burney - Debutantes - 1784 - 294 pages
...my health. Had it been to have feen my fweet Maria, or her dear mother, I Ihould not have repined. Mrs Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is extremely clever; her underftanding, indeed, may be called mafculine : but, .unfortunately, her manners deferve the fame... | |
| 1843 - 632 pages
...just as it is ripening to burst forth with enjoyment!' Here is a second passage from Evelina : — ' Mrs Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is...has lost all the softness of her. own. In regard to myself, however, as 1 have neither courage nor inclination to argue with her. I have never been personally... | |
| English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...just as it is ripening to burst forth with enjoyment!' Here is a second passage from Evelina : — ' Mrs Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is...unfortunately her manners deserve the same epithet. Fur, in studying to acquire the knowledge of the other sex, she has lost all the softness of her own.... | |
| Fanny Burney - 1808 - 274 pages
...my health. Had it been to have seen my sweet Maria, or her dear mother, 1 should not have repined. Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She...the other sex, she has lost all the softness of her awn. In regard to myself, however, as I have neither courage nor inclination to argue with her, I have... | |
| Fanny Burney - 1820 - 296 pages
...my health. Had it been to have seen my sweet Maria, or her dear mother, I should not have repined. Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She...has lost all the softness of her own. In regard to myself, however, as I have neither courage nor inclination to argue with her, I have never been personally... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 296 pages
...my health. Had it been to have seen my sweet Maria, or her dear mother, I should not have repined. Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She...has lost all the softness of her own. In regard to myself, however, as I have neither courage nor inclination to argue with her, I have never been personally... | |
| Fanny Burney - 1838 - 360 pages
...my health. Had it been to have seen my sweet Maria, or her dear mother, I should not have repined. Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She...has lost all the softness of her own. In regard to myself, however, as I have neither courage nor inclination to argue with her, I have never been personally... | |
| Fanny Burney - England - 1838 - 358 pages
...of my health. Had itbeen to have seen my sweet Maria, or her dear mother, I should not have repined. Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She...unfortunately, her manners deserve the same epithet; for, ia studying to acquire the knowledge of the other sex, she has lost all the softness of her own. In... | |
| THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...just as it is ripening to burst forth with enjoyment!' Here is a second passage from Evelina : — ' Mrs Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is...has lost all the softness of her own. In regard to myself, however, as I have neither courage nor inclination to argue with her, I have never been personally... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...as it is ripening to burst forth with enjoyment ! " Here is a second passage from Evelina:— " Mr*. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is extremely...masculine ; but unfortunately her manners deserve the samo epithet. For, in studying to acquire the knowledge of the other stx, she has lost all the softness... | |
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