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Common terms and phrases
acquaint Addresses Affection affectionate Affliction agreeable amiable answered assured Behaviour cerely Child Company confess convinced Country Coxcombs Creature cryed Daugh dear Harriet dear Madam dear Parents dearest Madam delightful deserve desired dreadful duction Emilia to Harriet endeavour entered the Room entreat Esteem expect Eyes Father and Mother Favour fear Folly fond Fortune Friend Friendly's give Goodwill Happiness Harriet to Emilia Heart her's hope imagine Inclosed indifferent Lady Friendly Laurinda leave Letter Libertine live Love Lover Lovewell Mamma Manner Marriage marry Merit Mind Miss Flareit Morning ness never obliged Occasion Passion Person pleasing Pleasure poor portunity Pow'r present racter receive Regard rejoice render Return riet Satisfaction sensible Sentiments sincerely Sir George Townly Sir George's Solitude soon Soul spect sure surprized Sydney Sydney's Tears tell thought tion told Town Train-well trifle uneasy Visits wish Woman World unknown Wretch your's
Popular passages
Page 64 - Let Choice, not wrinkled Spleen engage The Mind to quit the World's gay Stage, Where Folly's Scenes are play'd. Sour Difcontent and pining Care, Attaint the Fragrance of the Air, Difturb the lilent Shade.
Page 61 - And plans a future fame ; What, is the phantom he purfues ! What the advantage that accrues ! Alas ! an empty name ! To him, the grove no pleafure yields.
Page 63 - Can thefe, the flaves of faftiion's pow'r, Enjoy the filent, tranquil hour, And bloom with nature's glow ? Or, to the votaries of...
Page 64 - Twere folly to be great ! May I thro' life ferenely flide, As yon clear dreams, which filent glide. Nor quit this lov'd retreat. Beneath this leafy arch reclin'd, I tafte more true content of mind, Than frolic mirth can give ; Here to the bufy world unknown, I feel each blifsful hour my own. And learn the art to live! While turning nature's volume o'er, Frelh beauties rife, unfeen before.
Page 66 - ArtKtc&i a GOD ! Oh ! facred blifs ! THY paths to trace ! And happieft They, of Human Race, To whom this pow'r is giv'n, Each day, in fome fequefter'd fhade, By Contemplation's foftring aid, To plume the Soul for Heav'n ! TheDAUGHTER,aM>W.
Page 63 - Can e'er the Slaves of Fafhion's pow'r, Enjoy the filent tranquil hour, And bloom with Nature's glow ? Or, to the Votaries of Senfe, Can Solitude her fweets difpenfe, And...
Page 126 - Man forgets, yet GOD regards, The Sympathy benign ; And with eternal blifs rewards The laudable Jefign.
Page 62 - Can thefe, the Slaves of Fafhion's Pow'r, Enjoy the filent, tranquil Hour, And bloom with Nature's Glow? Or, to the Votaries of Senfe...
Page 126 - ... of doing good. Beauty may lend the cheek a Rofc That haftens to decay ; But Charity a wreath beftows Which ne'er mail fade away.
Page 125 - Heav'n-defcended Charity ! Thou fource of conftant joy ! Our higheft pleafure flows from thee ; T impart is to enjoy ! Nor Pleafures lure, nor idle noife Can fatisfy the mind; The Soul afpires to nobler joys, To Tranfports more refin'd ! Gold in itfelf's a fhining toy ; But rightly underftood, Conveys the moft exalted joy, The pmu'r of doing good.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Letters Between Emilia and Harriet: On a Variety of Familiar and Interesting Occasions |
| Author | Maria Susanna Cooper |
| Publisher | Peter Wilson, John Exshaw, Henry Saunders and James Potts, 1762 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 13, 2007 |
| Length | 167 pages |
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