Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart to Miss Louisa Clinton, 第 2 卷

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D. Douglas, 1903 - 471 頁
 

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第 194 頁 - What joy to wind along the cool retreat, To stop, and gaze on Delia as I go ! To mingle sweet discourse with kisses sweet, And teach my lovely scholar all I know. Thus...
第 195 頁 - 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...
第 80 頁 - When your brave ancestor was desired by his sovereign to assassinate the Duke de Guise, he returned the answer which you should have done, when you were charged to assassinate the character of a man whose birth is as illustrious as your own, or that of the Duke de Guise.
第 xvi 頁 - ... should have had given her without pains in early youth. To neither of us had the least religious education been at all thought of. It was in the middle of the age of Voltaire, and his doctrines and his wit had been adopted by all the soi-disant Scotch wits. My dear grandmother, indeed, aware of this neglect, made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every morning ; but, as neither explanation nor comment was made upon them, nor was their history followed up in any way, I hated the duty and...
第 289 頁 - S. and I have been quite alone these ten days, and are not at all tired of one another, nor of a wicked book we have been reading (Tom Jones, if you won't tell). Neither of us had read it for a great while, and, oh, what good writing it is. No modern stuff can possibly do after it.
第 17 頁 - The overflowing warmth of her heart, by making love a plant of deep root and stately growth, had attuned her whole soul to the reception of happiness, when she found in Raymond all that could adorn love and satisfy her imagination.
第 11 頁 - I know my death is near at hand,' so prepared was she for the awful change; I trust a blessed one to her." We may here string together a few observations taken from the letters of this accomplished lady. The fortitude with which Sir Walter Scott bore his loss of fortune is thus alluded to : "Before I left town on Friday I received a letter from Walter Scott, whose thus answering mine by return of post sufficiently showed he took it kindly ; and so he expresses himself. But he writes with such calmness...
第 80 頁 - Due de Guise. I can have no further communication with you but in arms. If you have any humanity, pray send clothing...
第 19 頁 - Waller, as he used to relate, found him sufficiently versed in ancient history; and, when any of his enthusiastic friends came to advise or consult him, could sometimes overhear him discoursing in the cant of the times: but, when he returned, he would say, "Cousin Waller, I must talk to these men in their own way;" and resumed the common style of conversation.

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