Striking Likenesses: Or, The Votaries of Fashion. A Novel ...B. Clarke, 1808 |
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abbess admiration æther Antonia artless baronet beauty beheld bless blush bosom bowed Bravenger Carberry charms cheek choly cival countenance Cripplegate curricle daugh daughter Dauverne's dear delighted derland dissipation dium duchess Ellen England esteem Eustacia exclaimed Dauverne fair fashion father favourite fear folly forget gazed girl glowing grace Grange hand happy heart heaven honour hope innocence inquired interrupted Lady Geraldine Lady Selina land laughing lips lisped looking lord Mahala marchioness Marquis of Allingthorn melan ment Miss Forrester Moreland morning mother never o'er observed passed peace pensive Percival pleasure plied poor possessed quaker questioned Dauverne rejoined remember replied Dauverne resumed returned Rosa sigh Sir Frederic Stanley sister Benedicta smil smile soft sorrow soul stole Sunderland sweet tear tell tender thee thou thought thousand tion tonia verne vicarage virtue voice walk Warwickshire Werter youth
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الصفحة 33 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
الصفحة 46 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love; Where Friendship full exerts her softest power, Perfect esteem enlivened by desire Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence: for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.
الصفحة 76 - How few, like thee, inquire the wretched out, And court the offices of soft Humanity ? Like thee reserve their raiment for the naked, Reach out their bread to feed the crying orphan, Or mix their pitying tears with those that weep ? Thy praise deserves a better tongue than mine, To speak and bless thy name.
الصفحة 34 - Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? " Does she not come, like wisdom, or good fortune, " Replete with blessings, giving wealth and honour?