Tremaine, or, The man of refinement [by R.P. Ward].Henry Colburn, 1825 - 380 pages |
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Anne's Hill answered Careless answered Evelyn answered Tremaine asked Tremaine beautiful Belford Belmont Belson better breakfast called CHAP charming confess continued Evelyn conversation court cried Tremaine daughter dinner Doctor Eugenia Evelyn Hall exclaimed Tremaine eyes father feeling felt fortune garden gave gentleman Georgina give happy heart honour horse interest Jack Jack's lady laugh least leisure Les Ormes less live Lord Madame de Staël maine manner Mary ment mind Miss Evelyn Monson morning mother nature neighbour ness never Northamptonshire observed Tremaine party perceiving perhaps person philosopher pleased pleasure pray Qui Tam quizzed racter recollect refined replied Evelyn replied Tremaine retirement returned Evelyn ride Ryecroft scenes seemed SHAKSPEARE shew Sir Marmaduke smiled solitude sort Squire suppose sure sweet syllabub taste tell thing thou thought tion Tremaine's truth Vellum walk Whig wish wonder Woodington Yorkshire young
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Page 313 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 84 - IN that soft season, when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers; When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray; As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest, And love itself was banish'd from my breast, (What time the morn mysterious visions brings, While purer slumbers spread their golden wings), A train of phantoms in wild order rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose.
Page 313 - Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ; she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature...
Page 214 - I have no very strong faith in you pretenders to retirement; you are not of an age for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune enough to go into a corner, and form conclusions de contemptu mundi et fuga sceculi; unless a poet grows weary of too much applause, as ministers do of too much weight of business.
Page 300 - I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Page 216 - My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.
Page 27 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Page 18 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 79 - I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted...
Page iii - The wide spread of that luxury which is consequent on wealth, by extinguishing the modest style of living which once belonged to us, has undermined our independence, and left our virtue defenceless.