Flirtation: A NovelBaudry's European Library, 1836 - 402 pages |
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... hours with counting the vessels at sea . Very pretty pastime : I give him credit for his taste ; I should do the same myself if I lived here : " and so saying , he took down the glass , and proceeded to examine it . " A very fine glass ...
... hours with counting the vessels at sea . Very pretty pastime : I give him credit for his taste ; I should do the same myself if I lived here : " and so saying , he took down the glass , and proceeded to examine it . " A very fine glass ...
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... hours toge- ther , drew his chair close to the fire , and , cowering over it , in- dulged in his usual malady — ennui . He was disturbed from nursing this humour by a loud noise , in which the shrill voice of his valet , Le Brun , was ...
... hours toge- ther , drew his chair close to the fire , and , cowering over it , in- dulged in his usual malady — ennui . He was disturbed from nursing this humour by a loud noise , in which the shrill voice of his valet , Le Brun , was ...
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... hours : and happy are those whose youth has been so spent that this blessed love of order gradually settles into a fixed ... hour came at which the card - table was set out , and his loved niece , Emily , was waiting for him with her gay ...
... hours : and happy are those whose youth has been so spent that this blessed love of order gradually settles into a fixed ... hour came at which the card - table was set out , and his loved niece , Emily , was waiting for him with her gay ...
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... hour ! That everlasting whist makes me quite sick . One of the reasons which induce me to hate the country is , that ... hours ; besides , after all , few people say any thing better worth listening to than tic - tic ! " : Lady Frances ...
... hour ! That everlasting whist makes me quite sick . One of the reasons which induce me to hate the country is , that ... hours ; besides , after all , few people say any thing better worth listening to than tic - tic ! " : Lady Frances ...
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... hour to be come for retiring . " Before you all go , " he said , " I must call a Council of War to know what plans are formed for the amusement of the morrow - we must do the honours to Lord Mowbray , and show him the beauties of our ...
... hour to be come for retiring . " Before you all go , " he said , " I must call a Council of War to know what plans are formed for the amusement of the morrow - we must do the honours to Lord Mowbray , and show him the beauties of our ...
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Abbotsbury Aldget Alpinia Altamont Ambrose Ambrose Philips amusement beauty believe Ben Hardy better called Carlton carriage Castle charming circumstances Colonel Pennington Corrie countenance cried dear Lord dear uncle dearest uncle delight Delvin Emily's endeavoured eyes favour feelings felt Fitzhammond Flirtation frae General's give Hall hand happy hear heard heart honour hope interest knew Lady Bellamont Lady Emily Lady Frances Lady Frances's Lady Glassington Ladyship lassie laugh leave Lepel live look Lord Bellamont Lord Mow Lushee manner Marian matter mind Miss Macalpine Montgomery Montgomery Hall morning Mowbray's neral never Neville niece night pain party passed perhaps person pleasure poor pray recollection rejoined replied Lord Mowbray Rosalinda Rose scene seemed servants sister smile Sorrento speak sure sweet talk taste tell there's thing thought turned uncle's voice walk wish woman words young
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Page 289 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 275 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 275 - These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their firstborn sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Page 260 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...
Page 26 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 354 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 369 - Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Page 249 - But pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands, Her sweets no longer with her dwells: But scent and beauty both are gone, And leaves fall from her, one by one. Such fate ere long will thee betide When thou hast handled been awhile, With sere flowers to be thrown aside; And I shall sigh, while some will smile, To see thy love to every one Hath brought thee to be loved by none.
Page 43 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Page 42 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.