Tales of Fashionable Life, Band 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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acquaintance Almeria Anne Babet Basile begged better Bradstone's brodeuse carriage Carver charming Château de Fleury chestnuts child Colonel Pembroke companions countenance cried dame de Fleury daughter dear Miss Turnbull declared distress door dress Edgeworthstown Ellen Elmour Grove fashion father favour feelings Fleury's fortune Frederick Elmour gentleman girl gratitude hand happy heard heart heroine honour hope Ingoldsby John Hodgkinson knew Lady Bab Lady Brad Lady Bradstone Lady Gabriella Lady Pierre Lady Pierrepoint Lady Stock ladyship lence looked Lord Bradstone Madame de Fleury manner Manon Maurice mind Miss Turn morning mother mour never obliged Paris person pleasure poor pupils racter sensible Sister Frances soon speak sure taste tell ther thing Thomas Stock thought tion town Tracassier Turnbull's Vickars Victoire Victoire's voice whilst wish woman Wynne young ladies
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Seite 198 - Ah me! how much I fear lest pride it be ! But if that pride it be, which thus inspires, Beware, ye dames, with nice discernment see, Ye quench not too the sparks of nobler fires : Ah ! better far than all the Muses...
Seite 234 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Seite 287 - When thy last look, ere thought and feeling fled, A mingled gleam of hope and triumph shed; What to thy soul its glad assurance gave, Its hope in death, its triumph o'er the grave ? The sweet Remembrance of unblemish'd youth, The still inspiring voice of Innocence and Truth ! Hail, MEMORY, hail!
Seite 240 - I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Seite 323 - In the higher and middle classes of society, it is a melancholy and distressing sight to observe, not unfrequently, a man of a noble and ingenuous disposition, once feelingly alive to a sense of honour and integrity, gradually sinking under the pressure of circumstances, making his excuses at first with a blush of conscious shame, afraid of seeing the faces of his friends from whom he may have borrowed money, reduced to the meanest tricks and subterfuges to delay or avoid the payment of his...