Matilda: A Tale of the Day ...H. Colburn, 1825 - 307 páginas |
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... mother , little was known , nothing was ever said by her uncle . It was thought in the family , that she had been a foreigner of dis- tinction ; and this supposition seemed in some mea- sure confirmed by the peculiar character of ...
... mother , little was known , nothing was ever said by her uncle . It was thought in the family , that she had been a foreigner of dis- tinction ; and this supposition seemed in some mea- sure confirmed by the peculiar character of ...
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... mother's watchful care had destroyed the latent seeds of error in her guileless heart , and pro- portioned in her youth the strength of her principles to the warmth of her feelings . No example of do- mestic happiness had told her ...
... mother's watchful care had destroyed the latent seeds of error in her guileless heart , and pro- portioned in her youth the strength of her principles to the warmth of her feelings . No example of do- mestic happiness had told her ...
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... mother , that the acquaintance be- tween our heroine and Augustus Arlingford , which we have taken up at a later period , commenced . That this was not the least attractive part of the intimacy to Matilda , may be imagined ; but that it ...
... mother , that the acquaintance be- tween our heroine and Augustus Arlingford , which we have taken up at a later period , commenced . That this was not the least attractive part of the intimacy to Matilda , may be imagined ; but that it ...
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... mothers ' own hand , inoculated with a fancy for " Detrimentals " -- perhaps to pre- vent their catching it naturally ; and thus they be- come acquainted with the value of those agreeable qualities which 28 MATILDA .
... mothers ' own hand , inoculated with a fancy for " Detrimentals " -- perhaps to pre- vent their catching it naturally ; and thus they be- come acquainted with the value of those agreeable qualities which 28 MATILDA .
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... mother's slip slop , which their boarding- school education fully qualified them to give . As to Mrs. Hobson , she felt no such awe as that with which the name and fame of Lady Matilda inspired her daughters . Ever since her brother's ...
... mother's slip slop , which their boarding- school education fully qualified them to give . As to Mrs. Hobson , she felt no such awe as that with which the name and fame of Lady Matilda inspired her daughters . Ever since her brother's ...
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acquaintance admiration anxious appearance arrived Augustus Arlingford Baronet beauty Boodle's Boulby brother carriage CHAPTER character charm Cheshire circumstances Colonel Canteen conceal connexion daugh daughter dear Delaval Park dinner door Dornton doubtful duties Eatington Emily endeavoured England English excited eyes favourable feelings felt female Geneva Genoa hand happiness Harry Wordsworth hear heard heart heroine Hobson family induced intimacy Italy knew La Scala Laceby Lady Ma Lady Matilda Lady Ormsby length light sail look Lord George Lord Ormsby Lord Wakefield manner Mechlin ment Milan mind Miss Anne Miss Hobson morning mother Naples never old Hobson once Ormsby's party passed Penryn person pleasure present recollection rendered replied Rome Santelmo seemed Simperton Sir James Sir James's situation society soon spirit sure Sydney thing thought tilda tion Tom Fool tone turned villa whilst wonder Woodhead young
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Página 268 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 148 - That strain again ! — it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, ( Stealing and giving odour !— Enough ; no more ; ( 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
Página 206 - Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down...
Página 46 - Hobson was not at the time objected to. He was a steady, calculating foreman, in a large manufactory at Manchester. This situation he had gradually improved into that of a master of foremen ; and his small back lodging he had changed into the largest extent of staring brick front in Manchester. Mrs. Hobson, at the time of her marriage, was a silly, showy, bustling, chattering little body ; with a brisk figure, and brisker tongue, good humoured, illiterate, and vulgar.
Página 47 - Jemima, was at that becoming age when young ladies' hair is neither long nor short. As to the conversation of these Manchester graces, — being in considerable awe of a person of whom the Morning Post said so much as it did of Lady Matilda, they confined that to occasional verbal corrections of their mother's slip-slop, which their boarding school education fully qualified them to give.
Página 13 - ... circle, seemed anxiously to solicit a protecting nod from those around him, confirmative of the acquaintance he hoped he had made. Then came the wellestablished man of the world, who seemed carelessly to postpone the duties of recognition, till dinner and lights afforded him a more convenient opportunity of doing so. To him succeeded the 'cidevant jeune homme,' whose 'way of life is fall'n into the sear — the yellow leaf...
Página 1 - Raise me a little higher in my bed. — Blush I not, brother Acton ? Blush I not, Sir Charles ? Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek ? Is not my crime there ? Tell me, gentlemen.
Página 36 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 48 - I'm sure Jem couldn't have done better." She then broke at once into the subject now always uppermost in her thoughts ; namely, the extraordinary circumstance of being actually about to go abroad. " Well/' said she, " I hope that we shall all live as one family in foreign parts. To think of my going trapesing out of Old England! but my daughters must have the same advantages as the Miss Tomkins's, though they did make old Tomkins a knight the other day. But an't my brother a baronet ? to say nothing...