The Good Aunt; Or, a Summer in the Country. A Moral Tale, Etc1811 - 217 sidor |
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... woman , beheld with sorrow the little advantage her pupil derived from her instruc- tions : what she strove to teach in the morn- ing , was lost by the flattery that reached her ears in the evening . When she wished to talk seriously to ...
... woman , beheld with sorrow the little advantage her pupil derived from her instruc- tions : what she strove to teach in the morn- ing , was lost by the flattery that reached her ears in the evening . When she wished to talk seriously to ...
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... woman , despised by all . The young friends expressed themselves much pleased with the story : after thanking Mrs. Stanly for it , they chatted together , till the servant announced tea . i CHAP . IV . THE next day the young people 28 ...
... woman , despised by all . The young friends expressed themselves much pleased with the story : after thanking Mrs. Stanly for it , they chatted together , till the servant announced tea . i CHAP . IV . THE next day the young people 28 ...
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... woman who had nursed them , and who suffered them to amuse themselves as they thought proper . Mrs. Stanly , though she expected to find them uninformed , felt greatly shocked at hearing that they had been so totally neg- lected . As it ...
... woman who had nursed them , and who suffered them to amuse themselves as they thought proper . Mrs. Stanly , though she expected to find them uninformed , felt greatly shocked at hearing that they had been so totally neg- lected . As it ...
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... woman , whose pale countenance exhibited the anguish of her situation ; two children were standing by her ; one of them begging for bread , while the other vainly endeavoured to quiet the cries of the new - born infant . The eyes of the ...
... woman , whose pale countenance exhibited the anguish of her situation ; two children were standing by her ; one of them begging for bread , while the other vainly endeavoured to quiet the cries of the new - born infant . The eyes of the ...
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... the housekeeper to send every thing proper for the poor woman and her daughter , with one of the maid servants to nurse them . These directions were immediately complied with , and Mrs. Stanly 42 . THE GOOD AUNT ; OR ,
... the housekeeper to send every thing proper for the poor woman and her daughter , with one of the maid servants to nurse them . These directions were immediately complied with , and Mrs. Stanly 42 . THE GOOD AUNT ; OR ,
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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...