The Two Mentors: A Modern StoryJ. Mawman, 1803 - 386 Seiten |
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accept acquaintance affection amiable Andrew Collins answer asked attention Barclay Barton begged behaviour Bennet blessings Brerewood brother called child Clayton Collins compliments conversation dance daugh daughter dear friends dear Sir desired distress EDWARD SAVILLE Elliott engaged expect fair lady father favour fear fortune Franklin friendship gave gentleman girl give grief hand happy hear heard heart heaven honour hope Horton hour JOHN FRANKLIN JOHNSON kind Lady Belmour laughed leave letter living looked Lord Lord D Madam manner marriage married minuet Miss Freewill Miss Jones Miss Lucas Miss Melcombe mother Munden never obliged offered pacquet person pleasure polite portmanteau post-chaise postilions present racter received seemed Selby servant shewed sister situation smiled soon Sophia Melcombe speak spirit Sukey surprize tell tender thanked thing thought tion told took virtue wait wife wish woman worthy wrote young lady
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Seite 231 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Seite 175 - I found her — oh divine benevolence! emanation of the Divinity! first of the Christian virtues! — I found her giving her own breast to the poor little orphan child, while the tears rolled down her cheeks in compassion for it. I kneeled involuntarily to her as to a superior being. — Oh Maria! my angel wife! This action is worthy of thee, and few besides thcc would have performed it.
Seite 198 - ... and delicate hand of Nature has failed to impress. Cupid has not stamped his bow upon your mouth, yet I swear by those lips, (I wish you would take a hint from one of our LITTLE though by no means one of our minor poets, and call upon me to kiss the book,) that they are beautifully ripe and ruddy, " Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, And yet an union in partition.
Seite 1 - ... spirit ,of a gentleman, or else to make him conceited and overbearing.— Secondly, I followed you with my good offices afterwards, to mitigate the fatigues of education, and to make jou an <tccom~ pUshed man, with as little trouble to yourjelf as possible.
Seite 32 - ... circumstances will admit, and continue the same until children and want force them to apply to their parish.2 Clara Reeve, who having herself lived as a domestic, knew service, intimately as an occupation, in one of her novels gives an account of two former servants such as Wendeborn describes: '. . . the habit of imitating the manners of their superiors, in the way of life they had seen, made them go to the extent of their fortune, and sometimes exceed it.'3 But whether extravagance drove them...
Seite 173 - I will, said my. wife, in a faltering voice, she shall be as dear to me as my own. — Thank you, my dear friend, God bless you ! — The husband ran to the bedside; he kneeled by it; he sobbed, but could not speak ; he took her hand with my wife's in it; she tried to turned that way, but could not.— She aaid, Farewel, my dear lord ! take care of yourself.
Seite 5 - ... you left college. Your Guardian — good heaven! what a guardian for a virtuous youth! —finding you have not acquired the ton of...
Seite 177 - I ought to do something towards providing for this poor child. I will deposit a sum in your hands for her use and benefit ; the interest of it, you will accept for her board and necessaries.
Seite 4 - Your father w.is a man of fpirit; he lived too fall for his health and fortune; — you have not yet begun to live at all. — Open your eyes to the happinefs that awaits you : — the world and all its charms...
Seite 93 - The grateful girl could not spc ak for tears'; sire kneeled do-vn, she embraced my knees, she lifted up her clasped hands to heaven, and looked a blessing upon me, but she could not articulate a word.