The Lady's Magazine: Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, Volume 38John Huddlestone Wynne Robinson and Roberts, 1807 - Advice columns |
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... look back with satisfaction when the agonies of death shake your frame to dissolu- tion , and on which the pure spirits in heaven look down with joyful approbation . Gaming is a vice so odious and of so destructive a nature , that I ...
... look back with satisfaction when the agonies of death shake your frame to dissolu- tion , and on which the pure spirits in heaven look down with joyful approbation . Gaming is a vice so odious and of so destructive a nature , that I ...
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... look abroad for that pleasure his own solitary fire - ide failed to afford . He still loved his Mary with too much ten- derness to think of supplying her place with a mercenary ; but his heart was a social one , and he was under the ...
... look abroad for that pleasure his own solitary fire - ide failed to afford . He still loved his Mary with too much ten- derness to think of supplying her place with a mercenary ; but his heart was a social one , and he was under the ...
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... look at it , think of your mother . Every thing at the white cottage I leave to you . Your sister has need of nothing I can give but my good wishes and my blessing . These she has . May she live to be- come a credit to her husband ; and ...
... look at it , think of your mother . Every thing at the white cottage I leave to you . Your sister has need of nothing I can give but my good wishes and my blessing . These she has . May she live to be- come a credit to her husband ; and ...
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... , where two hundred fashionables were pent up in the corners of the supper- room , and had nothing to do but to look on , and make wry faces , while their D 2 On Fashionable Distinctions . 19 with a little damsel, who, in point ...
... , where two hundred fashionables were pent up in the corners of the supper- room , and had nothing to do but to look on , and make wry faces , while their D 2 On Fashionable Distinctions . 19 with a little damsel, who, in point ...
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... look on , and make wry faces , while their fellow guests made away with the chickens , and swept off the green pease without mercy . On talking of the affair to a young lady who was present , she said , with much emphasis , that she had ...
... look on , and make wry faces , while their fellow guests made away with the chickens , and swept off the green pease without mercy . On talking of the affair to a young lady who was present , she said , with much emphasis , that she had ...
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Page 403 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 495 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 490 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 500 - On beds of green sea-flower thy limbs shall be laid, Around thy white bones the' red coral shall grow Of thy fair yellow locks threads of amber be made, And every part suit to thy mansion below.
Page 490 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 499 - And the swallow sings sweet from her nest in the wall ; All trembling with transport he raises the latch, And the voices of loved ones reply to his call.
Page 290 - Beneath the shelter of encircling hills A myrtle rises, far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild...
Page 290 - Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Page 103 - But they all laughed so loud that he pulled in his head, And went in his own little chamber to bed. Then, as evening gave way to the shadows of night, Their watchman, the Glow-worm, came out with a light. • Then home let us hasten, while yet we can see, For no watchman is waiting for you and for me.
Page 194 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, — They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.