Gurney Married: A Sequel to Gilbert Burney, المجلد 2Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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admit affair affection agreeable anxiety appeared arrival Ashmead aunt Barbadoes Bath believe Bessy Blissfold Brandy Brandyball brother called Captain Cavendish Lorimer Captain Lorimer Captain Thompson certainly character Chittagong circumstances conduct connexion countenance course Cuth Cuthbert dancing-master daugh dear friend dear Sarah delight eau de Cologne eyes Fanny's father-in-law favour feelings felt funeral gentleman girl give gone happy Harriet hear heard hope Hull Hutton Jane Jibbs Kate Kate's Kittington Kitty knew Lauk Lazenby letter Lieutenant look Ma'am maid manner marriage marry matter mean Merman mind Miss Falwasser Miss Fanny Miss Kitty Montpelier morning never Nubley Nubley's Pappy perhaps person pooh poor dear pro hac vice recollect Rector seemed sister Sniggs Sniggs's sort stay sure Susan talk tell thing thought tion to-morrow told tremely Uncle walk wife wished words write young ladies
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الصفحة 153 - Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
الصفحة 172 - ... from the fair, fixes and determines us. Friendship, on the contrary, is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. How much wit, good nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities are required among friends to accomplish in some years, what a lovely face, or a fine hand does in a minute ? — Bruyere.
الصفحة 157 - Figure, I own, at first may give offence, And harshly strike the eye's too curious sense; But when perfections of the mind break forth, Humour's chaste sallies, judgment's solid worth; When the pure genuine flame by Nature taught, Springs into sense and every action's thought; Before such merit all objections fly — Pritchard's genteel, and Garrick's six feet high.
الصفحة 110 - I can do," said I. And I might have added, if I had spoken what I felt, that I was afraid to trust myself to speak to my old companions, or to any one else, about Christ.
الصفحة 153 - LIFE'S like a ship, in constant motion, Sometimes high, and sometimes low, Where every one must brave the ocean, Whatsoever wind may blow ; If...
الصفحة 31 - altogether and intirely out of this,' as my friend Colonel O'Plynn says, and who tells me that he has quitted the place in his military capacity — whether this be so or not, I do not pretend to say — but I do not think it likely he will show himself here again in a civil character.
الصفحة 59 - ... never come to any of your ears. You none of you guess, I believe, that the young scapegrace was off to Australia when his penitent fool of a guardian thought he had shut himself up somewhere, all in the dumps, because of their quarrel ? When we were good friends together, he told us all about it ; and if he had behaved as he ought to have done, I would never have said a word to any body on the subject — but he has provoked me, I won't deny it.