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able affection appear assure attention beauty believe body called certainly charms child consider dare dear dear Rhoda delight desire doubt dress duties enter eyes fashion father fear feelings felt fire Frances future give given grave Hall hand happiness hear heart honour hope hour human kind knew Lady Elizabeth Lady Morris land leave less letter live look Lord madam manner matter means mind Miss Strictland moment moral morning nature necessary never night object obliged once passed perhaps person pleasure Ponsonby poor Pray present Randolf reason received replied returned Rhoda scarcely seemed seen sense shew Sir William smile society soon speak Strict suppose sure talk taste tell thing thought tion turned uncle voice whole wholly wife Wilson wish woman Wyburg young
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Page 13 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 13 - That every labouring sinew strains. Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, Th
Page 189 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 154 - Arise, ye subtle spirits, that can spy, When love is entered in a female's eye ; You, that can read it in the midst of doubt, And in the midst of frowns can find it out ; You, that can search those many cornered minds, Where women's crooked fancy turns and winds ; You, that can love explore, and truth impart, Where both lie deepest hid in woman's heart, Arise \The ghosts of TRAXALLA and ACACIS arise; they stand still, and point at MONTEZUMA.
Page 123 - Nature fail'd in me, and left some part Not proof enough such object to sustain ; Or, from my side subducting, took perhaps More than enough; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact.
Page 207 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason...
Page 262 - The adorning thee with so much art Is but a barbarous skill; Tis like the poisoning of a dart, Too apt before to kill." That is, (to express the matter in plain terms, without any colouring,) "you poison the beholder, with far more of this base appetite, than otherwise he would feel.
Page 1 - You have often Begun to tell me what I am, but stopt And left me to a bootelesse Inquisition, Concluding, stay: not yet.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Rhoda: A Novel Volume 1 of Rhoda, by the author of 'Things by their right name', Alethea Lewis |
| Author | Alethea Lewis |
| Publisher | Henry Colburn, 1816 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Jul 2006 |
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