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almoſt amuſed anſwered Arlbery aſk baronet beauty becauſe begged Bellamy beſt breakfaſt brother Camilla Clermont Cleves Countess cried dance dear defired diſappointment diſtreſs Dubſter Edgar Eſq Eugenia excuſe faid fame fent fets fide firſt fome foon fooner fuch fuffered fure gentleman hand herſelf himſelf houſe Indiana inſtantly John juſt Lady laſt Lavinia leſs leſſon Lionel look Lord Lynmere ma'am Mandlebert Marchmont maſter Melmond Mifs milla mind Miſs Margland moſt muſt myſelf neſs never obſerved Orkborne perſon pleaſed pleaſure poor poſſible preſent promiſed purpoſe raiſed reaſon refuſe reſpect reſt Richard Twining Right ſaid ſay ſcarce ſcheme ſcholar ſeemed ſets ſhall ſhe ſhewed ſhort ſhould Sir Hugh ſiſter ſmall ſmiles ſome ſpeak ſpirits ſtanding ſtate ſtay ſtep ſtill ſtopt ſtranger ſtruck ſtudy ſuch ſurpriſe theſe thing thoſe thought tion Tom Hicks Tyrold uncle whoſe William wiſhed young youth
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Page 3 - In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla. Nature with a bounty the most profuse, had been lavish to her of attractions ; Fortune, with a moderation yet kinder, had placed her between luxury and indigence. Her abode was in the...
Page 195 - Even judgment itself, the coolest and last betrayed of our faculties, she took by surprise, though it was not till she was absent the seizure was detected. Her disposition was ardent in sincerity, her mind untainted with evil. The reigning and radical defect of her character — an imagination that submitted to no control — proved not any antidote against her attractions : it caught, by its force and fire, the quick-kindling admiration of the lively ; it possessed, by magnetic persuasion, the witchery...
Page 29 - ... made him whiskers of cork, powdered his brown bob, and covered a thread paper with black ribbon to hang to it for a queue. She metamorphosed him into a female, accoutring him with her fine new cap, while she enveloped her own small head in his wig; and then, tying the maid's apron round his waist, put a rattle into his hand, and Eugenia's doll upon his lap, which she told him was a baby that he must nurse and amuse.
Page 3 - T> £POSE is not more welcome to the worn •^ and to the aged, to the fick and to the unhappy, than danger, difficulty, and toil to the young and adventurous. Danger they encounter but as the fore-runner of fuccefs ; difficulty, as the fpur of ingenuity; and toil, as the herald of honour. The experience which teaches the...
Page 4 - Rector, was the younger son of the house of Tyrold. The living, though not considerable, enabled its incumbent to attain every rational object of his modest and circumscribed wishes ; to bestow upon a deserving wife whatever her own forbearance declined not ; and to educate a lovely race of one son and three daughters, with that expansive propriety, which unites improvement for the future with present enjoyment.
Page 5 - Mr. Tyrold, gentle with wisdom, and benign in virtue, saw with compassion all imperfections but his own, and there doubled the severity which to others he spared. Yet the mildness that urged him to pity blinded him not to approve ; his equity was unerring, though his judgment was indulgent. His partner had a firmness of mind which nothing could shake : calamity found her resolute ; even prosperity was powerless to lull her duties asleep. The exalted character of her husband was the pride of her existence,...
Page 16 - ... the velocity of its current. Every look was a smile, every step was a spring, every thought was a hope, every feeling was joy! and the early felicity of her mind was without allay. O blissful state of innocence, purity, and delight, why must it fleet so fast? why scarcely but by retrospection is its happiness known?
Page 2 - We lofe ere we learn to appreciate, and ere we can comprehend it we muft be born again. Its capacity o'er-leaps all limit, while its futility includes every abfurdity.
Page 258 - Mandlebert!" exclaimed Sir Hugh ; " and why did you not bring them to the fervants* hall ? My little girl has been telling me all their hiftory; and, God forbid, I mould...
Page 195 - But here ended the liberality of nature, which, in not fullying this fair workmanfhip by inclofmg in it what was bad, contentedly left it vacant of whatever was noble and defirable. The beauty of Camilla, though neither perfect nor regular, had an influence fo peculiar on the beholder, it was hard to catch its fault; and the cynic connoiffeur, who might perfevere in feeking it, would involuntarily furrender the fi.nO.