Display: A TaleTaylor and Hessey ..., and J. Conder, 1815 - 220 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 87 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
الصفحة 42 - ... intellectual as to the unrefined, she had not learned to value them. It was the liberty she enjoyed to pursue her own pleasures ; the luxury of being alone ; the inestimable privilege of not being obliged to talk, &c. that inspired her with gratitude, and made her think him the best and kindest of fathers. And indeed this gratitude was not misplaced : for that sort of kindness, which allows the object of it as far as possible, to pursue its own plan of happiness, is that alone which makes the...
الصفحة 50 - ... without mind enough to be pensive, she was habitually dull. Her circumstances did not allow her the relief of frequenting places of fashionable resort ; she contrived to exist with no other air, and no better water, than were to be obtained in her native parish. The few families in the neighbourhood with whom, in her youthful days she used to spend her Christmas, or her Whitsuntide, were dead, or dispersed, or the acquaintance was broken off : so that the routs and card-parties of this little...
الصفحة 50 - At length it became necessary, by extra attention to dress, and studious vivacity, to show that she was still young ; but even that time was gone by, and she now only labored to prove that she was not old. Disappointment, and the discontent occasioned by the want of an object in life, had drawn lines in her face which time might still have spared. It sunk down into dismal vacuity after every effort at sprightliness; for without mind enough to be pensive, she was habitually dull.
الصفحة 49 - Year after year passed away ; during which her, attendance at the Christmas rout, the Easter ball, the Summer races, was tiresomely punctual. At length it became necessary, by extra attention to dress, and studious vivacity, to show that she was still young ; but even that time was gone by, and she now only laboured to prove . that she was not old. Disappointment, and the discontent occasioned by the want of an object in life, had drawn lines in her face which time might still have spared. It sank...
الصفحة 50 - Whitsuntide, were dead, or dispersed, or the acquaintance was broken off: so that the routs and card-parties of this little town were the only relief to her monotony ; where she went to meet the same faces, and to say and hear the same nothings as ever. It was no wonder, therefore, that the veriest trifle — — a new stitch, or a new pattern — became to her an affair of importance ; that the gossip of the neighbourhood seemed essential to her existence ; and that, without malignity, scandal should...
الصفحة 23 - As to the cause of her sorrow, only a conjecture can be formed; because Mrs. Leddenhurst, who was the only person in whom she had confided, never betrayed her confidence. Among the numerous sources of human wo, the reader may fix upon, that which to her may appear most difficult to endure with fortitude and resignation. One may conclude she had lost her friend; another her heart; and a third, her fortune; but perhaps, after all, it was something very different from any of these. Miss Weston's idea...
الصفحة 89 - She had no son, it was true; but she had her pleasant house, and handsome furniture ; luxurious fare, and a healthy appetite; a fine person, and expensive ornaments. She could still walk, and ride, and visit, and see company; and build her grotto, and attend her green-house, and arrange her cabinet; so that she recovered her cheerfulness rapidly. There was nothing in her mind with which sorrow could amalgamate, it was an unwelcome and unintelligible foreigner. By her son's dying at a distance, she...
الصفحة 114 - ... of the rudeness of starting when she first beheld the mean figure and fiercely vacant countenance of her friend's admirer. ' Is it possible ? ' said she to herself, and she looked about to avoid meeting the eye of Elizabeth. " In the meantime the lieutenant continued running on in his usual strain of sprightly dulness to Mr Leddenhurst, who stood looking down upon him with an eye of keen but candid observation.
الصفحة 169 - ... he bought some — and was comforted. He was very fond of good things in general, and of these in particular ; and while he sat on a seat upon the cricket-ground, cracking his nuts, he forgot his troubles ; at least, they did not oppress him. There were few of the evils of life, for which an apple, a nut, and especially a good dinner, would not afford him temporary relief. And if this real interest in the sweet and the savoury were peculiar to persons of no higher intellectual pretensions than...