 ... how vain, how voluntary is half the misery we extract from the future ; how often, how very often, the thunder-storm takes the course of the river, and is out of sight ! at the moment which we had assigned as that of our most awful expectations !...  The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline - Страница 309написао/ла Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - 1811Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
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...no alternative, but to bear it with resignation, if not with patience. Some author has observed, " How vain, how voluntary, is half the misery we extract...had assigned as that of our most awful expectations !" tations." Not so with poor Rosina — she said it would, and it did — the thunderbolt fell completely... | |
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