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... wish , and even every caprice , was ill pre- pared to submit to the control of a mother - in - law . Without ... wishes were seconded by some officious and short- sighted relations , by whose means her introduction to Mr Smith was ...
... wish , and even every caprice , was ill pre- pared to submit to the control of a mother - in - law . Without ... wishes were seconded by some officious and short- sighted relations , by whose means her introduction to Mr Smith was ...
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... wish it had not happened , and that he had given the book a more gentle damnation , and at least have suffered it to have lived its day , which is all I ex- pected . As it is , I shall withdraw the book rather than let Cadell suffer ...
... wish it had not happened , and that he had given the book a more gentle damnation , and at least have suffered it to have lived its day , which is all I ex- pected . As it is , I shall withdraw the book rather than let Cadell suffer ...
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... wish and expectation that his Majesty would shortly correct the untruth and folly of the Scottish , and prayed that he might either be recalled , or permit- ted to take refuge in some stronghold belonging to the Douglases , who still ...
... wish and expectation that his Majesty would shortly correct the untruth and folly of the Scottish , and prayed that he might either be recalled , or permit- ted to take refuge in some stronghold belonging to the Douglases , who still ...
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... wishes on the subject . Upon the occasion we have now noticed , Sadler , though in the most respectful terms , urged the settlement of the succession as what all ranks and degrees of the Queen's subjects anxiously expected , and as a ...
... wishes on the subject . Upon the occasion we have now noticed , Sadler , though in the most respectful terms , urged the settlement of the succession as what all ranks and degrees of the Queen's subjects anxiously expected , and as a ...
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... wishes to stipulate that the Earl should not be taken under his roof , is very curious , as intimating the vacillations of a guilty mind between shame and thirst of lucre , disguised under a flimsy affectation of patriotism . 66 Sir ...
... wishes to stipulate that the Earl should not be taken under his roof , is very curious , as intimating the vacillations of a guilty mind between shame and thirst of lucre , disguised under a flimsy affectation of patriotism . 66 Sir ...
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acquaintance admiration affection afterwards amusement ANNA SEWARD appearance character Childe Harold circumstances death distinguished Dr Leyden Duke of Buccleuch Duke of York duty Earl Edinburgh Elizabeth England English expressed father favour favourite feelings Foe's fortune friends gave genius happiness Henry honour interest John Leyden King King's Knight Banneret labour lady land language late letter literary lived Lord Byron Lord Minto Lord Somerville Lord Somerville's Majesty manner melancholy Memoir ment merit mind Miss Seward nature never occasion opinion party passion peculiar perhaps person poem poet poetical poetry possessed published Queen quoth racter rank rendered residence Richard Sadler Robinson Crusoe Roxburghshire Royal Highness says Mrs Bargrave says Mrs Veal scene Scotland Scots Scottish seems Sir Ralph Sadler Smith society sovereign spirit story talents taste thought tion took Veal verses young youth
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Sida 256 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Sida 356 - I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This Sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news; he walks about, and speaks to everybody. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well...
Sida 256 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Sida 428 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Sida 408 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams ; he was girt With strange and dusky aspects ; he was not Himself like what he had been : on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer ! There was a mass of many image?
Sida 323 - ... her own mouth. I should have told you before that Mrs. Veal told Mrs. Bargrave that her sister and brother-in-law were just come down from London to see her. Says Mrs. Bargrave, "How came you to order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped,
Sida 426 - Or friends by him self-banish'd ; for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice, the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Sida 323 - This Mrs. Watson blazed all about the town, and avouched the demonstration of the truth of Mrs. Bargrave's seeing Mrs. Veal's apparition; and Captain Watson carried two gentlemen immediately to Mrs. Bargrave's house to hear the relation from her own mouth. And...
Sida 323 - A servant in a neighbour's yard adjoining to Mrs. Bargrave's house heard her talking to somebody an hour of the time Mrs. Veal was with her. Mrs. Bargrave went out to her next neighbour's the very moment she parted with Mrs.
Sida 322 - Watson's before she went whither she was .going. Then she said she would take her leave of her; and walked from Mrs. Bargrave in her view, till a turning interrupted the sight of her, which was three quarters after one in the afternoon. Mrs. Veal died the 7th of September, at twelve o'clock at noon, of her fits, and had not above four hours' senses before her death, in which time she received the sacrament.