Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelistsCadell and Company, 1827 |
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Stran 447 - which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks , when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley. Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. The
Stran 447 - folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground. A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,
Stran 8 - expression, to be softened or changed. One, highly gratified with her lover's fervour, and vows of everlasting love, has said, when I have asked her direction, I cannot tell you what to write; but (her heart on her lips) you cannot write too kindly. All her fear was only, that she should incur slight for her
Stran 8 - with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making. —I was not more than thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown to
Stran 297 - schoolmaster :—He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said,
Stran 174 - Novo. a village situated on the side of a mountain overlooking the sea, in the neighbourhood of Leghorn; a romantic and salutary abode, where he prepared for the press the last, and, like music " sweetest in the close," the most pleasing of his compositions, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. This delightful work was published in 1771, in three volumes,
Stran 262 - point of expense and amusement; not without regret, for he used to say, " In truth, one must make some sacrifices to obtain good society ; for here am I shut out of several places where I used to play the fool very agreeably." It often happened amid those sharper wits
Stran 28 - approaches a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye; and one would think (if we thought him at all worthy of observation,) that from her air and (the
Stran 127 - used to be known by the name of the Mavis (or thrush) Nest. Above that house is a romantic glen, or cleft of a mountain, covered with hanging woods, having at bottom a stream of fine water that forms a number of cascades in its descent to join the Leven, so that the scene is quite enchanting.
Stran 32 - will now write to your question—Whether there was any original ground-work of fact, for the general foundation of Pamela's story. " About twenty-five years ago, a gentleman, with whom I was intimately acquainted, but who, alas ! is now no more ! [probably the correspondent of fortune and rank, mentioned p. 6.] met with such a story as