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" I have already discovered that he is completely a domestic tyrant: everyone seems to feel constrained in his company: and it is only in the absence of the master of the mansion that innocent mirth ventures to show itself within its doors. Yet still I... "
Romantic Tales - Page 6
by Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1808
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The Lady's Weekly Miscellany, Volume 8

1808 - 408 pages
...receives every Sunday the visits of a distressed Emigrant, (with whose worth and whose wants, ucciiient has made me well acquainted) to whose complaints he...seems to listen with unwearied patience, and whom he ne\er sufi'tis to depart with e;i,p;y packets. As the poor gentleman retracts his steps,. i observe,...
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The Romancist, and novelist's library. Ed. by W. Hazlitt, Volume 1

1840 - 552 pages
...the master of the mansion that innocent mirth ventures to show itself within its doors. Yet still ! observe that, with the same unbending gravity with...lighter, and that not unfrequently a tear trembles in his eve ; but he never quits the street without turning back, and with clasped hands casting a look of...
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The Romancist and Novelist's Library: Fatal revenge, or, The family of Montorio

William Hazlitt - 1841 - 556 pages
...visits of a distressed emigrant (with whose worth and whoso wants accident has made me well aequainted), to whose complaints he seems to listen with unwearied...lighter, and that not unfrequently a tear trembles in hie eye ; but he new quits the street without turning hack, and with clasped hands casting a look of...
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The Lady's Gazette of Fashion

1866 - 484 pages
...show itself within its doors. Yet still I observe, that with the same unbending gravity with which be censures his wife and rates his servants, he receives...casting a look of gratitude towards the window of Sempronius's study.— Sempronius then has a good heart, but a most intolerable temper. — Well I...
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