The Lady's Preceptor: Or, a Series of Instructive and Pleasing Exercises in Reading; for the Particular Use of Females; Consisting of a Selection of Moral Essays, Narratives, Letters, ... By Mr. Cresswick, ...G.G.J. and J. Robinson, and Hookham and Carpenter, 1792 - 425 pages |
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... entered into the heart of man to conceive ; Can we receive it , I fay , with a dull infenfibility , and a stupid indifference ? If we find ourselves affected with endearing fentiments of love , towards virtuous characters , which we ...
... entered into the heart of man to conceive ; Can we receive it , I fay , with a dull infenfibility , and a stupid indifference ? If we find ourselves affected with endearing fentiments of love , towards virtuous characters , which we ...
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... entered the region of Beauty with encreased cu- riofity , and promised myself endless fatisfaction in being introduced to the prefiding goddefs . I perceived fe- veral ftrangers , who entered with the fame design , and what furprifed me ...
... entered the region of Beauty with encreased cu- riofity , and promised myself endless fatisfaction in being introduced to the prefiding goddefs . I perceived fe- veral ftrangers , who entered with the fame design , and what furprifed me ...
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... entered the valley , the prospect infenfibly feemed to improve ; we found every thing fo natural , fo domeftic , and pleafing , that our minds , which before were congealed in admiration , now relaxed into gaiety and good - humour . We ...
... entered the valley , the prospect infenfibly feemed to improve ; we found every thing fo natural , fo domeftic , and pleafing , that our minds , which before were congealed in admiration , now relaxed into gaiety and good - humour . We ...
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... entered the parlour , to explain to them the cause of it . He commended their entertainment , and informed them that a greater degree of heat is produced by the junction of the two flames , and confequently a farther attenuation , and ...
... entered the parlour , to explain to them the cause of it . He commended their entertainment , and informed them that a greater degree of heat is produced by the junction of the two flames , and confequently a farther attenuation , and ...
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... entered my chamber , and with a countenance more folemn than ufual , bid me pack up all my cloaths immediately , I was aftonished at this order , and begged to know whither I was going , to make fo large a provifion neceffary ? I am ...
... entered my chamber , and with a countenance more folemn than ufual , bid me pack up all my cloaths immediately , I was aftonished at this order , and begged to know whither I was going , to make fo large a provifion neceffary ? I am ...
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Page 387 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land...
Page 228 - Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 222 - Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 285 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Some natural tears they...
Page 95 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 237 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 306 - He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 412 - As— she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed, But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Page 303 - In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer Sun go down the sky...
Page 414 - We'll form their minds with studious care, To all that's manly, good, and fair, And train them for the skies.