The Englishman: A Novel : in Six VolumesPrinted at the Minerva-Press, for A.K. Newman and Company, Leadenhall-Street, 1812 |
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... speaking , not an immaculate being , was certainly a para- gon , compared with others of his age and fortune . From the age of twenty - one , he had been the master of a very competent income . He was a stranger to the vices of the ...
... speaking , not an immaculate being , was certainly a para- gon , compared with others of his age and fortune . From the age of twenty - one , he had been the master of a very competent income . He was a stranger to the vices of the ...
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... speak not of pecuniary gratitude , which fetters a generous soul , and makes it poor indeed , " but of that species of gra- titude to which friendship and solicited con- ¢ ་ D 5 fidence fidence give birth . These are the soothing ...
... speak not of pecuniary gratitude , which fetters a generous soul , and makes it poor indeed , " but of that species of gra- titude to which friendship and solicited con- ¢ ་ D 5 fidence fidence give birth . These are the soothing ...
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... speak of Mrs. Marnley as the wife of your respect- ed uncle . It is always dangerous to tam- per with the characters of women ; and when I assure you that you wound rather than flatter my feelings in the present in- stance , I am ...
... speak of Mrs. Marnley as the wife of your respect- ed uncle . It is always dangerous to tam- per with the characters of women ; and when I assure you that you wound rather than flatter my feelings in the present in- stance , I am ...
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... speak thus lightly of one whom he loved with unex- ampled tenderness . " " I am perfectly of your opinion , sir , " replied Mr. Supple . " My friend , lord Os- terly , is so generally happy in his badinage , that he suffers his spirits ...
... speak thus lightly of one whom he loved with unex- ampled tenderness . " " I am perfectly of your opinion , sir , " replied Mr. Supple . " My friend , lord Os- terly , is so generally happy in his badinage , that he suffers his spirits ...
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... speaking , there was scarcely a young man in the whole circle of his nu- merous acquaintance of whom he stood in awe , save our hero . He had applied him- self successfully to the ruling passion of his victims ; and though a few had ...
... speaking , there was scarcely a young man in the whole circle of his nu- merous acquaintance of whom he stood in awe , save our hero . He had applied him- self successfully to the ruling passion of his victims ; and though a few had ...
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Page 110 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 167 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 109 - Aye, who know you, For one, that courses up and down on errands, A stale retainer at Lord Timon's table ; A man grown great by making legs and cringes, By winding round a wanton spendthrift's heart, And gulling him at...
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