Temper: Or, Domestic Scenes, a Tale in Three Volumes, Zväzok 1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812
 

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Strana 313 - A be furpriz'd to hear She's quite deform'd ? And yet the cafe is clear ; What's female beauty, but an air divine, Thro' which the mind's all-gentle graces fhine ? They, like the fun, irradiate all between ; The body charms becaufe the foul is feen. Hence, men are often captives of a face, They know not why, of no peculiar grace : Some forms, tho' bright, no mortal man can bear; ' Some, none rejij} tho
Strana 1 - SHUT the door, Agatha," said Mr. Torrington to a beautiful girl of four years old ; " the wind from the passage is intolerable." But Agatha stirred not. "Did you not hear what I said?" resumed her father ; " shut the door, for I am cold." Still, however, the child continued to build houses, and her father spoke in vain. " I will shut the door myself," said her fatally indulgent mother ; — "Agatha is not yet old enough to understand the virtue of obedience.
Strana 210 - Moliere finds, to his great surprise, that he has been speaking prose all his life without knowing it...
Strana 5 - Give them to me this instant," he repeated, rising from his chair, and approaching to take them by force ; when Agatha, unaccustomed to obey, as she was when - not in her father's presence sence always used to command, instantly threw the scissars on the ground with violence. "Take them up, and give them to me." But Agatha only turned her back, and putting her hand under her chin threw out her raised elbow at her father with the gesture of sulky defiance. Mr. Torrington now found that he was seriously...
Strana 5 - Agatha," said he, firmly, but mildly, "obey me, and give me the scissors, or you shall go to bed this moment, and without your supper." But as the child continued obstinate and disobedient; in spite of her cries, blows, and kicks, Mr. Torrington took her up in his arms, and carried her into the nursery. " Put Miss Torrington to bed directly...
Strana 12 - Away with these foolish fears," said Mr. Torrington, " the child is in a most comfortable sleep : — or, if you must fear, let it be, as I said before, for the health of her mind, not of her body ; and avoid in future the conduct that may endanger it.
Strana 7 - " And /, Mr. Torrington, am ia no humour for joking : this is too serious a subject." " Emma, " Emma, I joked, to show you that /, at least, did not think this temporary affliction of our violent child a cause for sorrow." " No ? Hark how she screams ! Indeed, Mr. Torrington, I must go to her.
Strana 21 - the poor man is in love with an absent lady, and thence his indifference to those who are present. He is very handsome.' 'Yes, and very agreeable too, I am told, when he pleases; but he is so proud and fastidious, (for he is not in love, they say,) that he does not think any lady in this part of the world worth...
Strana 21 - There he is ! in a reverie as usual ! and though almost all the women in the room are dying to dance with him, the insensible creature looks at no one and dances with no one ; but, after exhibiting his fine person for an hour, he will lounge home to bed.

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