The refusal, by the author of the Tale of the times, Volumen11810 |
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... less purity as are offensive to other people . I will prove my liberality by making my heroine commit a faux pas , and my knowledge of the world by obliging my hero to love her the better for it . In short , whoever wish to have their ...
... less purity as are offensive to other people . I will prove my liberality by making my heroine commit a faux pas , and my knowledge of the world by obliging my hero to love her the better for it . In short , whoever wish to have their ...
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... . I now commend this compendium of secret history to the world with all its imperfections , and I assure the pub- lic , that unless some people whom I will not name , make it worth my while to be silent , I shall next time be less 44.
... . I now commend this compendium of secret history to the world with all its imperfections , and I assure the pub- lic , that unless some people whom I will not name , make it worth my while to be silent , I shall next time be less 44.
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Jane West. to be silent , I shall next time be less careful about personality . I remain the most devoted servant of the public , ELEANOR SINGLETON . INTRODUCTION BY MRS . PRUDENTIA . A FRAGMENT . There 45.
Jane West. to be silent , I shall next time be less careful about personality . I remain the most devoted servant of the public , ELEANOR SINGLETON . INTRODUCTION BY MRS . PRUDENTIA . A FRAGMENT . There 45.
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... less in his long harangues than in his prodigies , shall they pass for faithful narrators who , without any authentic document to support their assertions , invent motives which very likely never entered into the minds of the personages ...
... less in his long harangues than in his prodigies , shall they pass for faithful narrators who , without any authentic document to support their assertions , invent motives which very likely never entered into the minds of the personages ...
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... design , such was her opinion of the impracti- cability and folly of the attempt that she would have remained quiet ; care- less of the event , except as it might F affect the happiness of her guar- dian . But though 97.
... design , such was her opinion of the impracti- cability and folly of the attempt that she would have remained quiet ; care- less of the event , except as it might F affect the happiness of her guar- dian . But though 97.
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Página 222 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 255 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Página 192 - You hate me, you despise me ! you do well ; For what I've done I hate and scorn myself. Oh, night, fall on me ! I shall blush to death.
Página 202 - Prince! I blush to think what I have said, But fate has wrested the confession from me; Go on, and prosper in the paths of honour, Thy virtue will excuse my passion for thee, And make the Gods propitious to our love.
Página 239 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.