The old manor house, Band 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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Seite iii - I remained dressed, watching at the window, and expecting every moment to witness contention and bloodshed, or perhaps be overwhelmed by the projected explosion. After such scenes and such apprehensions, how deliciously soothing to my wearied spirits was the soft pure air of the summer's morning, breathing over the dewy grass, as (having slept one night on the road) we passed over the heaths of Surrey.
Seite 242 - The worthy archdeacon's short legs detracted less from the height of his amiable daughter, as she had the long waist of her mother, fine sugar-loaf shoulders that were pronounced to be extremely genteel, and a head which looked as if the back of it had by some accident been flattened, since it formed a perpendicular line with her back.
Seite 17 - MRS RAYLAND had been long confined by a fit of the gout ; and the warm weather of Whitsuntide had only just enabled her to walk, leaning on a crutch on one side, and on Mrs Lennard on the other, in a long gallery which reached the whole length of the south wing, and which was hung with a great number of family pictures.
Seite viii - Wanderings of Warwick, Montalbert, and many others, to the number of thirty-eight volumes. They all show a knowledge of life, and facility of execution, without having any very strong features, or particularly aiming to illustrate any moral truth. The situations and the scenery are often romantic; the characters and the conversations are from common life. Her later publications would have been more pleasing, if the author, in the exertions of fancy, could have forgotten herself; but the asperity...
Seite 321 - Mrs. Smith again takes up the cry in her Old Manor House (1793): Elate with national pride, they [the English] had learned by the successes of the preceding war to look with contempt on the inhabitants of every...
Seite 242 - Having never heard any thing but her own praises, she really believed herself a miracle of knowledge and accomplishments ; and it must be owned, that an audience less partial than those before whom she generally performed, might have allowed that she performed very long concertos, and solos without end, with infinite correctness, and much execution. Then she made most inveterate likenesses of many of her acquaintance ; and painted landscapes, where very green trees were reflected in very blue water.
Seite 96 - ... respecting youre youngest sonne, Mr. Orlando, he is very certainelye at youre disposal also, and you are, it may be, the most competent judge of that which is fitting to bee done for his future goode and advantage. I wish him very well ; he seeming to me to be a sober, promising, and well-conditioned youthe ; and such a one as, were I his neerer relation, I shoulde thinke a pitye to put to a trade. I am at present alwaies glad of his companie at the Hall, and willinge to give anye littel...
Seite iii - It was on the 2d day of July that we commenced our journey. For more than a month I had shared the restraint of my husband in a prison, amidst scenes of misery, of vice, and even of terror. Two attempts had, since my last residence among them, been made by the prisoners to procure their liberation, by blowing up the walls of the house. Throughout the night appointed for this...
Seite 207 - Just as he arrived at the water, from the deep gloom of the tall firs through which he passed, the moon appeared behind the opposite coppices, and threw her long line of trembling radiance on the water. It was a cold but clear evening, and, though early in November, the trees were not yet entirely stripped of their discoloured leaves: a low wind sounded hollow through the firs and stone-pines over his head, and then faintly sighed among the reeds that crowded into the water: no other sound was heard,...
Seite 21 - What punishment would have been bad enough for you ?" '• My dear aunt," said the weeping Monimia, " how could I help it ? I am sure I did not know what Mr Orlando was going to do. I saw him but a moment before ; and you know that, if I had known he intended to throw the ball up, I dared not have spoken to him to have prevented it.