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 oldal |
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... occasions as na- turally occur in domestic life , or on subjects chosen by themselves , and adapted to their taste and ac ... occasion be very important , and the writers very urgent to be allowed to correct and transcribe their little ...
... occasions as na- turally occur in domestic life , or on subjects chosen by themselves , and adapted to their taste and ac ... occasion be very important , and the writers very urgent to be allowed to correct and transcribe their little ...
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... occasion of importance , weigh well in your own mind the design and purport of it ; and consider very attentively , what sentiments are most proper for you to express , and your correspondent to read . The observance of this rule is ...
... occasion of importance , weigh well in your own mind the design and purport of it ; and consider very attentively , what sentiments are most proper for you to express , and your correspondent to read . The observance of this rule is ...
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... occasions . Shelter not the least degree of insincerity under the notion of a compliment ; which , as far as it deserves to be practised by a man of probity , is only the most civil and obliging way of saying what we really mean ...
... occasions . Shelter not the least degree of insincerity under the notion of a compliment ; which , as far as it deserves to be practised by a man of probity , is only the most civil and obliging way of saying what we really mean ...
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... occasion on which letters are written , and the situation , feelings , and acquirements , of those who write them , as well as of those to whom they are written , are so various , a great di- versity of style necessarily becomes ...
... occasion on which letters are written , and the situation , feelings , and acquirements , of those who write them , as well as of those to whom they are written , are so various , a great di- versity of style necessarily becomes ...
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... occasions not familiar . What- ever elevates the sentiments , will consequently raise the expression ; whatever fills us with hope or terror , will produce some perturbation of images . Wherever we are studious to please , we are afraid ...
... occasions not familiar . What- ever elevates the sentiments , will consequently raise the expression ; whatever fills us with hope or terror , will produce some perturbation of images . Wherever we are studious to please , we are afraid ...
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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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155. oldal - smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. la not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man
155. oldal - of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, S. JOHNSON.
254. oldal - honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, or is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the gray hair to men; and an unspotted life is old age.—He was taken away speedily, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.' I am your, &c. ALEXANDER POPE.
47. oldal - trim, with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees, Bosom'd high in tufted trees. Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks,
237. oldal - his mother. I would advise you, therefore, not to attempt unchaining the tiger, but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other person, whereby you will save yourself a great deal of mortification from the enemies it may raise against you, and perhaps a good deal of regret and repentance. If men are so wicked
62. oldal - that alternately prevail, and the uncertainty that perplexes us. To get over this, my way is to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns: writing over the one pro, and over the other con ; then, during three or
154. oldal - 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
62. oldal - difficult, chiefly, because, while we have them under consideration, all the 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 purposes or
241. oldal - and, permit me to say, affection, which I shall always have for your lordship, make it painful to me to see you engaged in conducting a war, the great ground of which (as described in your letter) is " the necessity of preventing the American trade from passing into foreign Channels.
142. oldal - Strahan; and think I do myself honour when I tell you that I read them with tears; but tears are neither to me nor to you of any further use, when once the tribute of nature has been paid. The business of life summons us away from