Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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... young bosom ; and he thought at one time of pursuing a court life ; but soon drew back , from finding that his heart had need of better things . In short , if fashion- able society had charms for him , literature and re- flection had ...
... young bosom ; and he thought at one time of pursuing a court life ; but soon drew back , from finding that his heart had need of better things . In short , if fashion- able society had charms for him , literature and re- flection had ...
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... young woman of high birth , who , sacrificed by her family to a man she could not love , and who did not love her , fell , after a struggle , into the arms of a man who had always possessed her heart . It was the impression produced by ...
... young woman of high birth , who , sacrificed by her family to a man she could not love , and who did not love her , fell , after a struggle , into the arms of a man who had always possessed her heart . It was the impression produced by ...
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... young ; and all things seemed to court him . Yet his temper grew more and more delicate ; and as to his natural fastidiousness , never having discovered that , he of course took no pains to correct it . At the same time , he had formed ...
... young ; and all things seemed to court him . Yet his temper grew more and more delicate ; and as to his natural fastidiousness , never having discovered that , he of course took no pains to correct it . At the same time , he had formed ...
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... young lady of the very first quality in France , was sickened to death , by her telling him one day qu'elle avait pris médecine ! Had this sensible though fastidious heart never , then , met with an object which he thought really worthy ...
... young lady of the very first quality in France , was sickened to death , by her telling him one day qu'elle avait pris médecine ! Had this sensible though fastidious heart never , then , met with an object which he thought really worthy ...
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... young female reading Milton in English , with a tone and feeling which , even in England , would have been charming . Another voice now and then interposing , shewed that the reader was not alone ; and the few sentences that passed ...
... young female reading Milton in English , with a tone and feeling which , even in England , would have been charming . Another voice now and then interposing , shewed that the reader was not alone ; and the few sentences that passed ...
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Anne's Hill answered Careless answered Evelyn answered Tremaine asked Tremaine beautiful Belford Belmont Belson better breakfast called CHAP charming confess continued Evelyn conversation court cried Tremaine daughter dinner Doctor Eugenia Evelyn Hall exclaimed Tremaine eyes father feeling felt fortune garden gave gentleman Georgina give happy heart honour horse interest Jack Jack's lady laugh least leisure Les Ormes less live Lord Madame de Staël maine manner Mary ment mind Miss Evelyn Monson morning mother nature neighbour ness never Northamptonshire observed Tremaine party perceiving perhaps person philosopher pleased pleasure pray Qui Tam quizzed racter recollect refined replied Evelyn replied Tremaine retirement returned Evelyn ride Ryecroft scenes seemed SHAKSPEARE shew Sir Marmaduke smiled solitude sort Squire suppose sure sweet syllabub taste tell thing thou thought tion Tremaine's truth Vellum walk Whig wish wonder Woodington Yorkshire young
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Page 197 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Page 220 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 313 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 18 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear...
Page 313 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 84 - IN that soft season, when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers; When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray ; As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest, And love itself was banish'd from my breast, (What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer slumbers spread their golden wings), A train of phantoms in wild order rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose.
Page 227 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Page 185 - A great deal," replied Evelyn ; " for, in the place I allude to, he was the quizzer, and Oliver the quizzee. ' We courtiers,' he says, ' valued ourselves much upon our good clothes; and when I first saw Oliver, he seemed a gentleman very ordinarily clad, in a plain suit, made, as it should seem, by an. ill country tailor ; his linen not very clean, his hat without a hatband, and his sword stuck on awkwardly.
Page iv - ... which once belonged to us, has undermined our independence, and left our virtue defenceless. All would be Statesmen, Philosophers or people of fashion. All, too, run to London. The woods and fields are unpeopled ; the plain mansions and plain manners of our fathers, deserted and changed...
Page 214 - ... air, and of the people, it will make a terrible sum. I have no very strong faith in your pretenders to retirement ; * you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner, and form conclusions de contemptu mundi et fuga sceculi, unless a poet grows weary of too much applause, as ministers do of too much weight of business.