Sketches from Nature: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate. Published from the Original Designs. By George Keate, Esq. ...J. Dodsley, 1790 |
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... amicable terms , fhould fortune ever throw us into the fame chapter . - Thofe fea- tures of yours form fo admirable an index , that I fhall be able to turn immediately immediately to the page where I left off . -You [ 2 ]
... amicable terms , fhould fortune ever throw us into the fame chapter . - Thofe fea- tures of yours form fo admirable an index , that I fhall be able to turn immediately immediately to the page where I left off . -You [ 2 ]
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... fame group we had done in afcending BOUGHTON HILL ; and as my face is pretty well known by the public , my tall lean figure , with the smart nymph who who reclined on my arm , immediately attracted their notice [ 15 ]
... fame group we had done in afcending BOUGHTON HILL ; and as my face is pretty well known by the public , my tall lean figure , with the smart nymph who who reclined on my arm , immediately attracted their notice [ 15 ]
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... fame time . Madame LA TOUCHE perceiving how much they leered at us , afked if I knew any of them ? -Not by name , faid I - but they are part of the troops of the church militant here upon earth , embodied and leagued to fight manfully ...
... fame time . Madame LA TOUCHE perceiving how much they leered at us , afked if I knew any of them ? -Not by name , faid I - but they are part of the troops of the church militant here upon earth , embodied and leagued to fight manfully ...
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... fame errand . - You are come to kill time , I to make him an agreeable companion . - Befides , you have only yourfelf to gratify , -I have a large family to look to , and muft keep all my readers in good humour . Killing of time , my ...
... fame errand . - You are come to kill time , I to make him an agreeable companion . - Befides , you have only yourfelf to gratify , -I have a large family to look to , and muft keep all my readers in good humour . Killing of time , my ...
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... fame place . We were reciprocally glad at the interview . It is a pleafing circum- ftance to invalids to meet after a con- fiderable abfence ; - their hopes are mutually fortified , being thereby in- duced to conceive there is not fo ...
... fame place . We were reciprocally glad at the interview . It is a pleafing circum- ftance to invalids to meet after a con- fiderable abfence ; - their hopes are mutually fortified , being thereby in- duced to conceive there is not fo ...
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addrefs alfo almoſt AMELIA BOUGHTON HILL buſineſs CALAIS ceafed chaife cife CLERMONT compofe confiderable converfe countenance courfe curiofity diffipated diſcovered DRAPER'S drefs exiſtence eyes fafe faid falutation fame fays fcene feen felves fenfibility feveral fhall fhew fhould fide filence filk fince fingle fingular firſt fituation fleep fome foon fortune FREDERIC ftep ftill ftood fubject fuch fufficient fummer fupper fupported hath heart himſelf honeft houſe intereft juft juſt LA TRAPPE lady laft laſt lefs live look Madame LA TOUCHE MARGATE melan mind moft monaftery moſt muft muſt myſelf nature nerally never obferved occafion paffed paffion PALERMO perfon pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffibly prefent prefs purpoſe racter reader SAINT JULIEN SAINT LAURENCE ſcene ſeen ſhe ſpirit ſtep ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion TRAPPE vifit walk whofe whoſe wifh wiſh worfe yourſelf
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Page 73 - The mind staggers with the immensity of her own conceptions ; and when she contemplates the flux and reflux of thy tides, which from the beginning of the world were never known to err, how does...
Page 71 - Whether we view thee when every wind is hushed, when the morning sun silvers the level line of the horizon, or when its evening track is marked with flaming gold, and thy unrippled...
Page 177 - D' AVIGNON'S own fwords, which hung with a hat and belt, in the room where they were; and thus armed, ufed every endeavour to appeafe his antagonift by words, but the other, preffing on him with a vehemence which would...
Page 200 - Monk, throwing back his cowl) " Gracious Heaven ! — thy will " be done ! — Behold — behold thy " FREDERIC kneels before you — as " much unlike the libertine who left " you, as you the parent from whom " he fled ! — O let me catch a bleffing "from your dying lips! — and in a " laft embrace, be cancelled the re" membrance of every thing that is « paft !" The The tranfport and amazement of fo unhoped an interview, gave a fudden impulfe to the blood •, and invigorated a little longer,...
Page 71 - HAIL, thou inexhaustible source of wonder and contemplation ! Hail, thou multitudinous ocean ! whose waves chase one another down like the generations of men, and, after a momentary space, are immerged forever in oblivion.
Page 171 - ... had dwindled away by fales of an hundred acres at a time, till neceffity compelled him to abridge many of his expences. — The contract for the old family manfion, with all the remaining...
Page 174 - FREDERIC ; he however fo fufficiently pofierTed himfelf, as not to appear in the leaft difcompofed, and advifed him by all means to purfue the affair. — — When a father is fo unprincipled as to become a rival to his fon, in a matter of this nature, it argues a mind fo totally depraved, as to require but little apology to be made for the defpicable meannefs of the Count in feizing this occafion to revenge himfelf of a woman, — and by expofing her infidelity to D...
Page 72 - Or whether we behold thee in thy terrors ! — when the black tempeft fweeps thy fvvelling billows, and the boiling furge mixes with the clouds, — when death rides the ftorm, — and humanity drops a fruitlefs tear for the toiling mariner whofe heart is finking with difmay ! — And yet, mighty deep ! 'tis...
Page 168 - Efpr its forts; which are coteries, compofed of wits and free-thinkers, who have too much vanity to agree in the received notions of mankind; but by their art, and the pleafantry of their ridicule, often operate too powerfully on weak minds, by undermining the good principles they may have imbibed, and fubflituting their own pernicious ones in their place.
Page 191 - ... time on food which was naufeating ; till a failor who was made captive with him, and the fame who had furnifhed him with a mariner's garment when he caft off the religious one he had aflumed, had, by means of acquaintance among the flaves, obtained fufficient credit to open a little...