The Female Spectator, Volume 1T. Gardner, 1755 |
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Page 10 - ... seems hereditary, married to a Gentleman every way worthy of so excellent a Wife, and with whom she lives in so perfect a Harmony, that having nothing to ruffle the Composure of her Soul, or disturb those sparkling Ideas she received from Nature and Education, left me no room to doubt if what she favoured me with would be acceptable to the Public. The next is a Widow of Quality, who not having buried her Vivacity in the Tomb of her Lord, continues to make one in all the modish Diversions of the...
Page 175 - Affliction. — To be able to reflect on our Misfortunes, goes a great way towards bearing them with that Fortitude which is becoming the Dignity of human Nature; but all have not Courage to do it, and those who have not would sink beneath the Weight of Grief, were they to indulge the Memory
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Page 18 - THE hcufe where their acquaintance firft began, was now the fcene of their future meetings : the miftrcfs of it was too great a friend to gallantry herfelf, to be any interruption to .the happinefs they enjoyed in entertaining each other without witneffes. — How weak is virtue when love and opportunity combine ! — Tho...
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