The Good Aunt; Or, a Summer in the Country. A Moral Tale, Etc1811 - 217 pages |
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... told her daughter she must amuse her cousins , by shewing them every thing worthy their notice in or about the house . Come , then , said Augusta , in the first place I will shew you my book - case ; if you are fond of reading , I am ...
... told her daughter she must amuse her cousins , by shewing them every thing worthy their notice in or about the house . Come , then , said Augusta , in the first place I will shew you my book - case ; if you are fond of reading , I am ...
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... told me , my dear mama , come from Spain . Mrs. Stanly . Yes , my dear ; as well as figs , olives , & c . Caroline . There are currants likewise ; from whence do they come ? Mrs. Stanly . Great numbers of them grow in the island of ...
... told me , my dear mama , come from Spain . Mrs. Stanly . Yes , my dear ; as well as figs , olives , & c . Caroline . There are currants likewise ; from whence do they come ? Mrs. Stanly . Great numbers of them grow in the island of ...
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... told me all ; there is one very necessary ingredient you have forgotten to mention . Caroline . What can that be ? Augusta . Dear mama , you are joking ? Mrs. Stanly . No , indeed ; I assure you , you would make a very poor pudding ...
... told me all ; there is one very necessary ingredient you have forgotten to mention . Caroline . What can that be ? Augusta . Dear mama , you are joking ? Mrs. Stanly . No , indeed ; I assure you , you would make a very poor pudding ...
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... told them that it was her custom to dedicate the morning to study ; and that in half an hour she should expect them in the library . In the mean time , added she , you will collect the books you have brought with you , and bring them in ...
... told them that it was her custom to dedicate the morning to study ; and that in half an hour she should expect them in the library . In the mean time , added she , you will collect the books you have brought with you , and bring them in ...
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... told them to amuse themselves as they pleased ; but as they saw her seat herself to her work , they likewise . took theirs , the weather not being fine enough for a walk , when the following conversation took place . Augusta . Dear mama ...
... told them to amuse themselves as they pleased ; but as they saw her seat herself to her work , they likewise . took theirs , the weather not being fine enough for a walk , when the following conversation took place . Augusta . Dear mama ...
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Page 176 - Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train; Eas"d of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 112 - Then, leading him to his closet, he locked the door, and, opening a coffer, first took out sixteen ducats, delivering them to Frescobald, and said, " My friend, here is the money you lent me at Florence, with ten pieces you laid out for my apparel, and ten more you paid for my horse ; but considering...
Page 176 - ... grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil: We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine: Tis liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Page 80 - many times in the pleasant fields of the Holy Scriptures, where I pluck up the goodlisome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory, by gathering them together ; that so, having tasted their sweetness, I may the less perceive the bitterness of life.
Page 115 - At length, being become completely master of his errand, he drew from his purse a guinea, and with a scrape made an uncouth offer of it. " Put up thy money, poor fellow...
Page 111 - Frescobald was surprised and astonished with admiration who this great man should be, that acknowledged such obligations, and so passionately expressed a kindness for him ; but, contemplating...
Page 113 - ... he transmitted to one of his servants, with a charge to find out the men, and oblige them to pay him in fifteen days, under the penalty of his displeasure.
Page 114 - Towards the beginning of the last century, an actor celebrated for mimicry, was to have been employed by a comic author, to take off the person, the manner, and the singularly aukward delivery of the celebrated Dr.
Page 112 - These the modesty of Frescobald would have refused, but the other forced them upon him. He next caused him to give him the names of all his debtors., and the sums they owed ; which account...
Page 109 - Frescobald, commiserating his necessities, and having a particular respect for the English nation, clothed him genteelly, took him into his house till he had recovered strength...