The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 11Harrison and Company, 1783 - English fiction A collection of separately paged novels. |
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Page 985 - by an eminent divine of our country. ' There is no manner of inconvenience in having a pattern propounded to us ' of fo great perfection, as is above our reach to attain to : and there may be' ' great advantages in it. The way to excel in any kind, is optima
Page 866 - and build for them ; travel and toil for them ; run through, at the call of Providence, or of our king and country, dangers and difficulties; and, at laft, lay all our trophies, all our acquirements, at your feet; enough rewarded in the confcience of duty done, and your favourable acceptance.
Page 627 - lord,' to her brother — (for the marquis withdrew, in grief» upon this inftance of her wandering ;) ' come, and ' fit down by the chevalier and me.' They did. She fpread it on the table, and, in an attentive pofture, her elbow on the table, her head on one hand, pointing with
Page 831 - faid, the honour done him by me, and. by us all, in the demonstrations we had given of our tender regard for him. I was, by the time of their return to us, pretty well recovered. Sir Charles approached me, without taking notice of the emotion I had been in,
Page 826 - of the admirable Clementina, will allow me to glory in my gratitude to her. You will ftill more readily allow me fo to do, when you have perufed this letter. Shall not the man who hopes to be qualified for the fupreme love, of which the pureft earthly is but a type, and who aims
Page 784 - when he was enumerating the friends he hoped to have near him, or about him, I had forgot to remind him of my Emily. Ungrateful Harriet !—But don't tell her that I was fo abforbed in felf, and that the converfation was fo interefting, that my heart was more of a
Page 638 - But then the man came out with his gew-gaw japan-china tafte. Why is it the privilege of people of quality now, to be educated in fuch a way, that their time can hardly ever be worthily filled up ; and as if it were a difgrace to be either manly or
Page 722 - between referve and opennefs of heart, you had not greatnefs of mind enough to break through the low reftraints o'f cuftom ; and to reward the latter in preference to the former. Yet who, better than you, knows, that women in love are actuated by one view, and
Page 689 - and, as you, my dear Dr. Bartlett, know, in different countries ; and particularly the unexpected turn which this excellent creature had taken. She approached me with an air of majefty, yet mixed with tendernefs. I met her, and with a bent knee, taking her hand—
Page 741 - I were to fuffer by it. You will be fo good as to read thefe letters to your daughter Byron, to her Lucy, to Mr. and Mrs. Selby, and to whom elfe you will think fit to call to the confultation : they will be thofe, I prefume, who