The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works of British and American AuthorsDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 320페이지 |
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... lived happily enough , and were instructed to be thankful to those at whose cost we were educa- ted . I was always the favourite of my mistress : she used to call me to read , and show my copy- book to all strangers , who never ...
... lived happily enough , and were instructed to be thankful to those at whose cost we were educa- ted . I was always the favourite of my mistress : she used to call me to read , and show my copy- book to all strangers , who never ...
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... lived , what fine things she saw , and what great wages she received . I resolved to try my fortune , and took my passage in the next week's wagon to London . I had no snare laid for me at my arrival , but came safe to a sister of my ...
... lived , what fine things she saw , and what great wages she received . I resolved to try my fortune , and took my passage in the next week's wagon to London . I had no snare laid for me at my arrival , but came safe to a sister of my ...
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... lived on trust at an alehouse . You may be sure that , of the sufferers , the maid suffered most ; and I left them , after three months , rather than be starved . I was then maid to a hatter's wife . There was no want to be dreaded ...
... lived on trust at an alehouse . You may be sure that , of the sufferers , the maid suffered most ; and I left them , after three months , rather than be starved . I was then maid to a hatter's wife . There was no want to be dreaded ...
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... lived with a couple that kept a petty shop of remnants and cheap linen . I was qualified to make a bill , or keep a book ; and being therefore often called , at a busy time , to serve the customers , expected that I should now be happy ...
... lived with a couple that kept a petty shop of remnants and cheap linen . I was qualified to make a bill , or keep a book ; and being therefore often called , at a busy time , to serve the customers , expected that I should now be happy ...
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... lived with a gentlewoman of a small fortune . This was the only happy part of my life . My mis- tress , for whom public diversions were too expen- sive , spent her time with books , and was pleased to find a maid who could partake her ...
... lived with a gentlewoman of a small fortune . This was the only happy part of my life . My mis- tress , for whom public diversions were too expen- sive , spent her time with books , and was pleased to find a maid who could partake her ...
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120 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
122 페이지 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
121 페이지 - Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him.
76 페이지 - Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and in duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties ; we think of her faults with less indignation, and approve of our tears as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue.
260 페이지 - There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the...
122 페이지 - His sentiments are not only in general the most pertinent and judicious upon every subject; but by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
151 페이지 - On the last day of his journey different accidents had retarded his progress; he was benighted before he reached the quarter in which La Roche resided. His guide, however, was well acquainted with the road, and he found himself at last in view of the lake, which I have before described, in the neighbourhood of La Roche's dwelling.
140 페이지 - MoRE than forty years ago, an English philosopher, whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe, resided at a little town in France. Some disappointments in his native country had first driven him abroad, and he was afterwards induced to remain there, from having found, in this retreat, where the...
76 페이지 - ... all contemporary authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
143 페이지 - I would not wish," continued the old man hesitatingly, " to think otherwise ; did I not look up with gratitude to that Being, I should barely be satisfied with my recovery as a continuation of life, which, it may be, is not a real good. Alas...