Aubrey: A Novel, Bind 2T. N. Longman, 1804 - 390 sider |
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Side 28
... asked him how long he had been in town ? " I am but juft arrived , my " friend , " faid he ; " I have travelled " all night . I come to town on a bufi- " ness most interefting to humanity : poor Winfield ! I don't believe you " know him ...
... asked him how long he had been in town ? " I am but juft arrived , my " friend , " faid he ; " I have travelled " all night . I come to town on a bufi- " ness most interefting to humanity : poor Winfield ! I don't believe you " know him ...
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... asked a variety of questions refpecting the house , the appearance of the country , and the cha- racters of the inhabitants . He was de- fcribing fome of these when they were fummoned C 5 fummoned to dinner . Mariton conti- nued the ...
... asked a variety of questions refpecting the house , the appearance of the country , and the cha- racters of the inhabitants . He was de- fcribing fome of these when they were fummoned C 5 fummoned to dinner . Mariton conti- nued the ...
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... asked me to allow her to do it . I faid I could make a bet- ter use of the water , and , taking the bot- tle from her , I put it to my mouth , and drank a good draught of it . This re- vived me very much ; I affured her it did ; and ...
... asked me to allow her to do it . I faid I could make a bet- ter use of the water , and , taking the bot- tle from her , I put it to my mouth , and drank a good draught of it . This re- vived me very much ; I affured her it did ; and ...
Side 76
... me fome compli ments as she put the room to rights , faid to me with a fmile : La ! mafter Cow- < per , what a very pretty girl that is you fought for . ' I asked her how she knew ? knew ? I can't but know , ' replied the 76 AUBREY .
... me fome compli ments as she put the room to rights , faid to me with a fmile : La ! mafter Cow- < per , what a very pretty girl that is you fought for . ' I asked her how she knew ? knew ? I can't but know , ' replied the 76 AUBREY .
Side 98
... that nature had endowed her chearful emotions with as much grace as her mournful ones . - Dick Cowfel ! • if I could not have done it myself , I • fhould ' fhould never have thought of asking Dick Cowfel : 98 AUBREY .
... that nature had endowed her chearful emotions with as much grace as her mournful ones . - Dick Cowfel ! • if I could not have done it myself , I • fhould ' fhould never have thought of asking Dick Cowfel : 98 AUBREY .
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Side 55 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Side 129 - All things to man's delightful use ; the roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower. Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, Rear'd high their flourish'd heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground...
Side 129 - Mosaic; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none, Such was their awe of man.
Side 48 - Age of Painting, about Leo the Tenth's Time, ufed this deeper and richer Kind of coloring ; and I fear one might add, that the glaring Lights introduced by Guido, went a great Way toward the Declenfion of that Art; as the enfeebling of the Colors by Carlo Marat (or, if you pleafe pleafe, by his Followers) hath fince almoft completed the Fall of it in Italy.
Side 48 - Judgment is fo apt to be guided by fome particular Attachments (and that more perhaps in this Part of Beauty than any other,) yet I am a good deal...
Side 204 - Look round !" thundered through my ear, in my father's voice, from a corner of the room. I involuntarily obeyed, and, as my eye caught his figure at his chamber-door, he raifed a vial to his mouth.
Side 201 - I loon, however, found that fleep was out of the queftion: the remembrance of my father's converfation by degrees faded away, and gave place to that of Donna Seraphina. The latter part of it revived in my imagination with double force, and brought with it an irrefiftible afiemblage of charms: the ramparts fell L 4 before before them one after another.
Side 51 - ... other Three. I fhall therefore have much lefs to fay of it, than of each of the others ; and fhall only give you Two or Three Obfervations, relating to it. As to the Color of the Body in general, the moft beautiful perhaps that ever was imagined, was that which...
Side 51 - t bouts de doigts ; it weeps all over." " —Clearly, by G— d ?" returned his lordfhip: " Le Brun was a famous " painter of Magdclens: this is a — a" — "- Titian, my lord." — " I know ; it " is equal to his Venus, by G — d...