The Good Aunt; Or, a Summer in the Country. A Moral Tale, Etc1811 - 217 sidor |
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... daughters , two lovely girls , the one nine , the other twelve years of age . She wished them to make every im- provement ; yet she well knew , though they had every master , this was not to be attained without the assistance of some ...
... daughters , two lovely girls , the one nine , the other twelve years of age . She wished them to make every im- provement ; yet she well knew , though they had every master , this was not to be attained without the assistance of some ...
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... daughter Augusta too ; do not you , Emma ? Emma . Oh ! yes ; but I am almost afraid , mama says they are so very clever ! Caroline . Oh ! I shall not mind that at all ; for , then , you know they will make us clever too . Emma . You ...
... daughter Augusta too ; do not you , Emma ? Emma . Oh ! yes ; but I am almost afraid , mama says they are so very clever ! Caroline . Oh ! I shall not mind that at all ; for , then , you know they will make us clever too . Emma . You ...
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... daughter she must amuse her cousins , by shewing them every thing worthy their notice in or about the house . Come , then , said Augusta , in the first place I will shew you my book - case ; if you are fond of reading , I am sure you ...
... daughter she must amuse her cousins , by shewing them every thing worthy their notice in or about the house . Come , then , said Augusta , in the first place I will shew you my book - case ; if you are fond of reading , I am sure you ...
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... daughter you have Mrs. Vere- how well she holds up her head ; and a thousand other speeches of the same kind , made her young heart beat with exultation , and her cheek flush with conscious superiority . Her mother beheld her triumph ...
... daughter you have Mrs. Vere- how well she holds up her head ; and a thousand other speeches of the same kind , made her young heart beat with exultation , and her cheek flush with conscious superiority . Her mother beheld her triumph ...
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... daughter admired ; in hearing her styled a paragon of perfection ! Blind to her faults , she believed every thing her friends ( who liked to flatter the fond mother ) told her . Madame Dupont , her governess , a very worthy woman ...
... daughter admired ; in hearing her styled a paragon of perfection ! Blind to her faults , she believed every thing her friends ( who liked to flatter the fond mother ) told her . Madame Dupont , her governess , a very worthy woman ...
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afternoon agreeable Almighty amiable amuse appeared Augusta beautiful begged beheld bosom breakfast carriage CHAP charming colour continued countenance cousins Cuba daugh daughter dear children dear mama delighted dinner distress dressed ducats eldest Emma and Caroline England enquired entered exclaimed eyes father fear felt Frank Stanhope Frescobald George girl hand happy hear heart Helen hope immediately Indies informed insect Jamaica joined Julia likewise little insect live look Madame Dupont manner Mason ment mind Miss Freeport Miss Grove Miss Stanhope morning mother ness never nosegay Old Bailey parsonage party perceived pleased pleasure poor woman port wine Pythius received rose Roseville sand scarcely scene seated seemed servant shew sister smile soon sorrow Spain Stanly desired Stanly's suffer tears tell thing thought tion told took trees walk West Indies whilst wish Xerxes young friends young ladies
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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...