The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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Page 79
... beauty and accomplishments of my daughters had now become a favourite topic with my wife and other friends of my family ; and to have buried them in a country retirement would have been deemed the height of folly and barbarity . For ...
... beauty and accomplishments of my daughters had now become a favourite topic with my wife and other friends of my family ; and to have buried them in a country retirement would have been deemed the height of folly and barbarity . For ...
Page 80
... beauty attract all eyes , in every company , and at every public place in which they appeared . I soon , however , found the effects of this distinction to be very different from those which the sanguine ex- pectations of some of us had ...
... beauty attract all eyes , in every company , and at every public place in which they appeared . I soon , however , found the effects of this distinction to be very different from those which the sanguine ex- pectations of some of us had ...
Page 85
... beauty of the last age , when Caustic was a gay and fashionable man about town . In the height of her beauty , she had retired from the world to dedicate her time to the education of her children . At the age of sixty - five , she still ...
... beauty of the last age , when Caustic was a gay and fashionable man about town . In the height of her beauty , she had retired from the world to dedicate her time to the education of her children . At the age of sixty - five , she still ...
Page 87
... beauty the most superior for the preservation of their empire over mankind . There I have seen- - Hold , hold , my good friend , ' said Lady ' if you run on at this rate , those ladies ( bowing to two young ladies who sat opposite to ...
... beauty the most superior for the preservation of their empire over mankind . There I have seen- - Hold , hold , my good friend , ' said Lady ' if you run on at this rate , those ladies ( bowing to two young ladies who sat opposite to ...
Page 124
... beauty of some hu- mane or the brilliancy of some heroic action . It is dangerous thus to bring us into the society of vice , though introduced or accompanied by virtue . the application to ourselves , in which the moral tendency of all ...
... beauty of some hu- mane or the brilliancy of some heroic action . It is dangerous thus to bring us into the society of vice , though introduced or accompanied by virtue . the application to ourselves , in which the moral tendency of all ...
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