The Balance of Comfort; Or, The Old Maid and Married Woman: A Novel. In Three Volumes, Nide 1Printed at the Minerva Press for A.K. Newman and Company, 1817 |
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The Balance of Comfort: Or, the Old Maid and Married Woman: a Novel; Vol. II Ross Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2017 |
The Balance of Comfort: Or, the Old Maid and Married Woman: a Novel; Vol. II Ross Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2017 |
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Sivu 177 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Sivu 39 - He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Sivu 155 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps...
Sivu 201 - Frequent in park with lady at his side, Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes ; But rare at home, and never at his books...
Sivu 58 - Or, lulled to slumber by the beating rain, Secure and happy, sink at last to rest ! Or, if the sun in flaming Leo ride, By shady rivers indolently stray, And with my Delia walking side by side, Hear how they murmur as they glide away...
Sivu 122 - And never won. Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed, And still are disappointed.
Sivu 189 - tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
Sivu 144 - Gain on your purpos'd will. Nor in the bower, Where woodbines flaunt, and roses shed a couch, While evening draws her crimson curtains round, Trust your soft minutes with betraying man. And let th...