The Secretary, and Complete Letter Writer: Containing a Collection of Letters Upon Most Occasions and Situations in Life. To which is Added, an Essay on Letter WritingKnott & Lloyd, 1803 - 168 oldal |
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36. oldal
... true ; I am uuhappy , and know not how to help it . There is something in my wife's conduct that not only displeases , but almost distracts me ; nor shall I recover myself till I have cleared up the doubts that disturb me : and this I ...
... true ; I am uuhappy , and know not how to help it . There is something in my wife's conduct that not only displeases , but almost distracts me ; nor shall I recover myself till I have cleared up the doubts that disturb me : and this I ...
37. oldal
... true , your reproaches would make him fy totally from you , to one who will take his part , and harden his heart against you for ever . Thus you would yourself contribute to her triumph ; while he , seeing that he has no longer need of ...
... true , your reproaches would make him fy totally from you , to one who will take his part , and harden his heart against you for ever . Thus you would yourself contribute to her triumph ; while he , seeing that he has no longer need of ...
39. oldal
... true , be- cause it was told by a lady or a gentleman . But why should we repine ? fasting happiness is not to be expected . So long as frailty is the lot of human nature , men will be subject to caprice and passions . Calumny , base as ...
... true , be- cause it was told by a lady or a gentleman . But why should we repine ? fasting happiness is not to be expected . So long as frailty is the lot of human nature , men will be subject to caprice and passions . Calumny , base as ...
40. oldal
... true . ” I am , dear Sir , your's , & c . To a Friend , in answer to his Complaint of the Incontinence of his Mistress . DEAR I AM sorry to learn , that you could suffer , your- self to be so idolatrously fond of any human being , as to ...
... true . ” I am , dear Sir , your's , & c . To a Friend , in answer to his Complaint of the Incontinence of his Mistress . DEAR I AM sorry to learn , that you could suffer , your- self to be so idolatrously fond of any human being , as to ...
41. oldal
... true love but what is liable to be tinctured with jea lousy . A very distresssing anxiety will certainly possess the bosom , at the slightest prospect of fosing the object of our affections . But as that person is worthy of little ...
... true love but what is liable to be tinctured with jea lousy . A very distresssing anxiety will certainly possess the bosom , at the slightest prospect of fosing the object of our affections . But as that person is worthy of little ...
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accusative acquaintance adjective affection affectionate Bedouin brother called could,should dare daugh daughter DEAR SIR death denotes durst duty endeavour esteem evil father formed fortitude fortune friendship FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gentleman give gone Grace happiness heart hope human humble Servant husband IBID IMPERATIVE MOOD INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD Johnson kind learning letter Lord loved Luxembourg Madam Maignet ment mind mother nature never PARTICIPLE passion perhaps person Petrarch placed pleasure Plural POPE POTENTIAL MOOD PRESENT TENSE PRETER PRETERIMPERFECT TENSE PRETERPERFECT PRETERPLUPERFECT TENSE prison pronoun reason received revolutionary revolutionary tribunal right honourable Robespierre scene sense shew shouldest sincere Singular sometimes soothing soul SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantives suffered tears tenderness thing Thou hast Thou mayest Thou mightest Thou shalt tion tribunal Vaucluse verb virtue vowel wife wilt wish words wouldest write young lady your's
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93. oldal - The greatest benefit which one friend can confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. This your mother will still perform, if...
lvii. oldal - ... whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God and love of man.
vii. oldal - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
143. oldal - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
74. oldal - I am ignorant of any one quality, that is amiable in a man, which is not equally so in a woman : I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature. Nor do I know one vice or folly, which is not equally detestable in both.
xv. oldal - Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less?
157. oldal - Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting our first thoughts, and endeavour to recommend our opinion by studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.
144. oldal - Burns's poems, and have read them twice ; and though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them on the whole a very extraordinary production.
130. oldal - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
84. oldal - Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytic stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horror than seems now to attend it.