The Young Lady's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary Selections: Designed to Improve Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Art of Letter-writing ... By the Author of "The Young Man's Own Book."Desilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 320 páginas |
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... reason , carefully avoid , though it is now such excessive cold weather that I believe they suffer extremely by that piece of self - denial . The snow is already very deep , and the people begin to slide about in their traineaus . This ...
... reason , carefully avoid , though it is now such excessive cold weather that I believe they suffer extremely by that piece of self - denial . The snow is already very deep , and the people begin to slide about in their traineaus . This ...
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... reason : it is because we will affect to have a summer , and we have no title to any such thing . Our poets learnt their trade of the Romans , and so adopted the terms of their masters . They talk of shady groves , purling streams , and ...
... reason : it is because we will affect to have a summer , and we have no title to any such thing . Our poets learnt their trade of the Romans , and so adopted the terms of their masters . They talk of shady groves , purling streams , and ...
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... reason , I think Voiture's letters are in bad taste ; he always intends to be brilliant , and therefore is almost al- ways affected - every passage seems written in its very best manner . Now to me the epistolary style is what it ought ...
... reason , I think Voiture's letters are in bad taste ; he always intends to be brilliant , and therefore is almost al- ways affected - every passage seems written in its very best manner . Now to me the epistolary style is what it ought ...
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... reasons pro and con are not present to the mind at the same time ; but sometimes one set present themselves , and at other times another , the first being out of sight . Hence the various pur- poses or inclinations that alternately ...
... reasons pro and con are not present to the mind at the same time ; but sometimes one set present themselves , and at other times another , the first being out of sight . Hence the various pur- poses or inclinations that alternately ...
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... reason pro equal to some two reasons con , I strike out the three . If I judge some two reasons con equal to some three reasons pro , I strike out the five ; and thus proceeding , I find at length where the balance lies ; and if , after ...
... reason pro equal to some two reasons con , I strike out the three . If I judge some two reasons con equal to some three reasons pro , I strike out the five ; and thus proceeding , I find at length where the balance lies ; and if , after ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Adieu admire affection affectionate agreeable ANNA SEWARD answer assure beautiful believe bishop bless border ballads Burke Byron comfort CONYERS MIDDLETON Cowper dear friend dear madam DEAR SIR death desire Edmund Burke EDWARD GIBBON endeavour epistolary esteem express favour feel Franklin friendship give hand happy hear heart HENRY KIRKE WHITE honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant JAMES BEATTIE JAMES THOMSON John Dryden Julius Cæsar kind labour Lady learned less letter live Lord Lord Byron Lord Kilmarnock lordship mean ment mind never night obliged occasion perhaps person pleased pleasure poem pray present reason received remember respect sent sentiments sincere soon sorry spirit sure tell thank thing thought tion town translation Trenton verse virtue Walpole William Cowper wish word write written yesterday young
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Página 154 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Página 154 - Die. tionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear...
Página 47 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Página 239 - ... spark of affection for that parent country we once held so dear: but were it possible for us to forget and forgive them, it is not possible for you (I mean the British nation) to forgive the people you have so heavily injured; you can never confide again in those as...
Página 254 - When I reflect what an inconsiderable little atom every single man is, with respect to the whole creation, methiuks it is a shame to be concerned at the removal of such a trivial animal as I am. The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily and marry as fast as they were used to da
Página 219 - We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom ; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests.
Página 155 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Página 60 - Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Página 254 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Página 143 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look with pleasure upon every act of virtue to which her instructions or example have contributed.