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Page 221
It enabled them by its profits to purchase the small estate which has descended to me , and it was enabling me , by my further industry , to lay up a store for thee . It is est Mary , I love , I adore you ; Heaven alone knows the ...
It enabled them by its profits to purchase the small estate which has descended to me , and it was enabling me , by my further industry , to lay up a store for thee . It is est Mary , I love , I adore you ; Heaven alone knows the ...
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Yes , dearest Mary , I must endeavour to render it a worthy abode of a wife like thee . Return , and advise your father to apply once more . The lease shall be renewed for double its former period . " " This was accordingly done .
Yes , dearest Mary , I must endeavour to render it a worthy abode of a wife like thee . Return , and advise your father to apply once more . The lease shall be renewed for double its former period . " " This was accordingly done .
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O Mary , Mary ! exclaimed he ; but God forgive thee ! ' and with these words he hastily ran from my sight . " I had sunk motionless to the floor , and it was not without difficulty that I was at length recovered to sensibility .
O Mary , Mary ! exclaimed he ; but God forgive thee ! ' and with these words he hastily ran from my sight . " I had sunk motionless to the floor , and it was not without difficulty that I was at length recovered to sensibility .
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Scarcely had we reached this place when the fever manifested itself ; the last words be uttered were- Ah , what will become of thee ? ' on which he grew delirious , and ceased to know me . - Unhappy creature that I am , doomed , perhaps ...
Scarcely had we reached this place when the fever manifested itself ; the last words be uttered were- Ah , what will become of thee ? ' on which he grew delirious , and ceased to know me . - Unhappy creature that I am , doomed , perhaps ...
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Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; " Sleep ! thy hounds are by thee lying ; " Sleep ! nor dream in yonder glen , " How thy gallant steed lay dying . " Huntsman , rest ! thy chase is done , " Think not of the rising sun , For at dawning to ...
Sleep ! the deer is in his den ; " Sleep ! thy hounds are by thee lying ; " Sleep ! nor dream in yonder glen , " How thy gallant steed lay dying . " Huntsman , rest ! thy chase is done , " Think not of the rising sun , For at dawning to ...
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Page 16 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 30 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased.
Page 30 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 5 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 61 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 86 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 62 - What if the sun Be centre to the world ; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...
Bibliographic information
| Title | La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1 History of women |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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