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acquaintance amidst Annesly's answered arrival assistance baronet began begged bestow Billy Bilswood blush Bolton Boothby bosom brother Camplin chaise CHAP comfort companion cried daugh daughter dear death desire discovered distress door endeavour expressed eyes father favour fear feel fortune frequently friendship gave gentleman haberdasher hand happy Harriet Harry heard heart heaven honour hope imagined Jack Ryland landlady leave letter London look manner marriage master menow mind Miss Annesly Miss Lucy Miss Sindall nesly ness never night obliged observed occasion offence pleasure portunity possessed present procure racter Rawlinson received recital recollect remember replied returned ROBERT TULLIS Ryland seemed sentiments servant Sindall's Sir Thomas Sindall Sir Thomas's sister situation sophisms sorrow sort soul stood suffered tears tender thing thou thought tion told virtue warmth Wilbrook Wistanly Wistanly's young lady
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Page 14 - He who would undermine those foundations upon which the fabric of our future hope is reared, seeks to beat down that column which supports the feebleness of humanity : — let him but think a moment, and his heart will arrest the cruelty of his purpose ; — would he pluck its...
Page 137 - ... the sad : it was she herself sitting up in her bed, fingering her pillow as if it had been a harpsichord. It is not easy to conceive the horror I felt on seeing her in such a situation ! She seemed unconscious of my approach, though her eye was turned towards me as I entered ; only that she...
Page 14 - ... crutch from the hand of age, and remove from the eye of affliction the only solace of its woe ? The way we tread is rugged at best ; we tread it, however, lighter by the prospect of that better country to which we trust it will lead ; tell us not that it will end in the...
Page 10 - I have mentioned,) by leading insensibly to the . practice of virtue, rather than by downright precept, that Annesly proceeded with his children ; for it was his maxim, that the heart must feel, as well as the judgment be convinced, before the principles we mean to teach can be of habitual service...
Page 32 - Luinley, that tutor of Sindall's whom we have formerly mentioned, was a man the best calculated in the world for lulling his suspicions asleep, if his nature had ever allowed them to arise. This man, whose parts were of that pliable kind that easily acquire a superficial knowledge of every thing, possessed the talent of hypocrisy as deeply as the desire of pleasure ; and while in reality he was the most profligate of men, he had that command of passion which never suffered it to intrude where he...
Page 144 - ... destructive schemes of her husband, at last tamely yielded to her fate, and died soon after him of a broken heart, leaving an only son, the Bolton who is now introduced into my story. The distresses of his father had been always ridiculed by Sir Thomas Sindall, as proceeding from a degree of whim and madness, which it would have been a weakness to pity ; his aunt, Mrs Selwyn, joined in the sentiment ; perhaps it was really her own ; but at any rate she was apt to agree in opinion with her nephew...
Page 166 - ... could give or festivity inspire. Nor did he part with the idea after the object was removed; but, even on the road to London, to which place he began his journey next morning, 'twas but pulling out his letter again, humming over that little melancholy air which his Lucy had praised, and the scene was present at once. It drew, indeed, a sigh from his bosom, and an unmanly tear stood in his eye ; yet the sigh and the tear were such, that it was impossible to wish it removed.
Page 6 - Such were the minds which Annesly's tuition was to form. To repress the warmth of temerity, without extinguishing the generous principles from which it arose, and to give firmness to sensibility where it bordered on weakness, without searing its feelings where they led to virtue, was the task he had marked out for his industry to accomplish...
Page 152 - I don't understand you," answered Lucy, and turned towards the house, with some marks of resentment on her countenance. Bolton was for some time rivetted to the spot ; when he recovered the use of his feet, he ran after Miss Sindall, and gently laying hold of her hand,
Page 134 - ... could Sir Thomas Sindall have thought of the expedient which he proposes. If you will now become the wife of your adoring Camplin, the time of the celebration of our marriage need not be told to the world : under the sanction of that holy tie, every circumstance of detraction will be overlooked...