The Good Aunt; Or, a Summer in the Country. A Moral Tale, Etc1811 - 217 sidor |
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... George , thir- teen ; Helen , twelve ; the wild Frederic , eight ; and the little Maria , the darling and favourite of the whole family , seven . Emma . How charming to have so many young people so near . Augusta . Yes , it is indeed ...
... George , thir- teen ; Helen , twelve ; the wild Frederic , eight ; and the little Maria , the darling and favourite of the whole family , seven . Emma . How charming to have so many young people so near . Augusta . Yes , it is indeed ...
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... which youth is but too liable to fall into . George was open , frank , generous , and sincere : sometimes ra- ther hasty in his temper , which led him to commit faults his better judgment disap- proved ; but , 46 THE GOOD AUNT ; OR ,
... which youth is but too liable to fall into . George was open , frank , generous , and sincere : sometimes ra- ther hasty in his temper , which led him to commit faults his better judgment disap- proved ; but , 46 THE GOOD AUNT ; OR ,
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... George was drawing , while the two younger ones were forming nosegays from a quantity of flowers that lay scattered near them on the grass . Helen was the first who noticed the arrival of our party . She immediately jumped up ...
... George was drawing , while the two younger ones were forming nosegays from a quantity of flowers that lay scattered near them on the grass . Helen was the first who noticed the arrival of our party . She immediately jumped up ...
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... George had been using flowed plentifully over the different paints and working implements that lay upon the table , running at the same time down the back of poor little Frederic , who was seated on the ground ; while Maria com plained ...
... George had been using flowed plentifully over the different paints and working implements that lay upon the table , running at the same time down the back of poor little Frederic , who was seated on the ground ; while Maria com plained ...
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... George . That is just right , the oftener the better ; your long absence has made sad idle people in this family ! Augusta . How can that be ? George . Why , there is Helen , I do not think she has done five stitches together for the ...
... George . That is just right , the oftener the better ; your long absence has made sad idle people in this family ! Augusta . How can that be ? George . Why , there is Helen , I do not think she has done five stitches together for the ...
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Sida 176 - Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Sida 112 - Then, leading him to his closet, he locked the door, and, opening a coffer, first took out sixteen ducats, delivering them to Frescobald, and said, " My friend, here is the money you lent me at Florence, with ten pieces you laid out for my apparel, and ten more you paid for my horse ; but considering...
Sida 176 - ... grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil: We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine: Tis liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Sida 80 - many times in the pleasant fields of the Holy Scriptures, where I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory, by gathering them together ; that so, having tasted their sweetness, I may the less perceive the bitterness of life.
Sida 115 - At length, being become completely master of his errand, he drew from his purse a guinea, and with a scrape made an uncouth offer of it. " Put up thy money, poor fellow...
Sida 111 - Frescobald was surprised and astonished with admiration who this great man should be, that acknowledged such obligations, and so passionately expressed a kindness for him ; but, contemplating...
Sida 113 - ... he transmitted to one of his servants, with a charge to find out the men, and oblige them to pay him in fifteen days, under the penalty of his displeasure.
Sida 114 - Towards the beginning of the last century, an actor celebrated for mimicry, was to have been employed by a comic author, to take off the person, the manner, and the singularly aukward delivery of the celebrated Dr.
Sida 112 - These the modesty of Frescobald would have refused, but the other forced them upon him. He next caused him to give him the names of all his debtors., and the sums they owed ; which account...
Sida 109 - Frescobald, commiserating his necessities, and having a particular respect for the English nation, clothed him genteelly, took him into his house till he had recovered strength...