The Lairds of Fife ...Constable & Company, 1828 - 920 страница |
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... Fife - hall was a grand place ; and , as such , was now very frequently visited and admired by single gentlemen on a tour , and by parties of pleasure on a ramble . On such occasions , Mrs Fife's activity in the prosecution of her ...
... Fife - hall was a grand place ; and , as such , was now very frequently visited and admired by single gentlemen on a tour , and by parties of pleasure on a ramble . On such occasions , Mrs Fife's activity in the prosecution of her ...
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... Fife's activity - for by that title we must sometimes name her ever restless spirit of curiosity - was pretty well em- ployed in secretly invading the history of those who , under no such apprehensions , ventured to intrude upon her ...
... Fife's activity - for by that title we must sometimes name her ever restless spirit of curiosity - was pretty well em- ployed in secretly invading the history of those who , under no such apprehensions , ventured to intrude upon her ...
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... Fife herself , as she , half - peeping half - listening at every door and aperture , fled on tiptoe at their approach ... Fife's servants had the honour of shewing the house stared , not being at all accustomed , very probably , with 18 ...
... Fife herself , as she , half - peeping half - listening at every door and aperture , fled on tiptoe at their approach ... Fife's servants had the honour of shewing the house stared , not being at all accustomed , very probably , with 18 ...
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... Fife's ( upon this occasion ) uncom- mon personal perseverance in her pursuit . The footman , however , who knew from expe- rience all that was expected from him , had in the meantime gone after Mr Hochytoch , hav- ing first pushed the ...
... Fife's ( upon this occasion ) uncom- mon personal perseverance in her pursuit . The footman , however , who knew from expe- rience all that was expected from him , had in the meantime gone after Mr Hochytoch , hav- ing first pushed the ...
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... Fife's attempts to be hospitable , would taste nothing . " Do you intend by laughing to grow fat , Miss ? " Miss Kicklecackle was fat . The Miss began another chorus , which burst all restraint as it approached the end . Mrs Fife looked ...
... Fife's attempts to be hospitable , would taste nothing . " Do you intend by laughing to grow fat , Miss ? " Miss Kicklecackle was fat . The Miss began another chorus , which burst all restraint as it approached the end . Mrs Fife looked ...
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agreeable Akenside amongst answer aunt began better body called carriage Cecilia clack cold Colonel Brown compliments crasy cried Miss cried Mrs Fife daughter dear Miss Leslie dear Mrs Fife dexterity dinner door Dudd Edmonstones father favour Fife-hall Fife's Fifeshire friends game at chess gentleman Gregory happy hear heard Hochytoch honour hope Horn Regular Hyndford intend invitation Jemima John Lady Methodical lady's laugh look Lord Aloof Lums Lumsdaine's M'Pech Ma'am Madam Mademoiselle Antoinette Madrake Madrake's Marchmont Maringle mean mind Miss Brown Miss Kicklecackle Miss M'Tavish Monotony morning never night o'clock observed occasion odd trick once papa party person play poor pray pretended pretty racter rake rest returned seat seems sometimes sort Squeake suppose talk taste tell thing thought tion uncon voice vomitory Vonpepper and M'Ginger wish wonder young lady
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Страница 74 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.
Страница 14 - And as an owl that in a barn Sees a mouse creeping in the corn, Sits still, and shuts his round blue eyes As if he slept, until he spies The little beast within his reach, Then starts, and seizes on the wretch...
Страница 260 - ... may be invigorated, or their efforts renewed, by subsequent considerations. The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure ; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul ; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.