The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and PursuitsVizetelly, Branston, and Company, 1829 - 504 strán (strany) |
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The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits Young lady Úplné zobrazenie - 1829 |
The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits Young lady Úplné zobrazenie - 1829 |
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Strana 45 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Strana 314 - The qualities of the epistolary style most frequently required are ease and simplicity, an even flow of unlaboured diction, and an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments.
Strana 194 - By a subsequent act, the punishment for taking their eggs was imprisonment for a year and a day, and a fine at the king's will.
Strana 216 - ... martins; this opinion might possibly arise from the confidence these birds seem to put in us by building under our roofs, so that it is a kind of violation of the laws of hospitality, to murder them. As for robin redbreasts in particular, it is not improbable they owe their security to the old ballad of the Children in the Wood.
Strana 318 - But these directions are no sooner applied to use, than their scantiness and imperfection become evident. Letters are written to the great and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity of expression, when the importance of the subject impresses solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence.
Strana 316 - Wherever we are studious to please, we are afraid of trusting our first thoughts, and endeavour to recommend our opinion by studied ornaments, accuracy of method, and elegance of style.
Strana 327 - ... humour may tempt you to lay aside for a time, and which a thousand unforeseen accidents will afterwards render it more and more difficult to execute : no one can say what important consequences may follow a trivial neglect of this kind. For example — I have known' one of these procrastinators disoblige, and gradually lose, very valuable friends, by delaying to write to them so long, that, having no good excuse to offer, she could not get courage enough to write at all, and dropped their correspondence...
Strana 258 - One of these, a young bird about five feet high, was brought up tame, and presented to the chief of the Bananas, where Mr. Smeathman lived : and, being accustomed to be fed in the great hall, soon became familiar, duly attending that place at dinner-time, placing itself behind its master's chair frequently before the guests entered.
Strana 333 - ... previous to the signature, may form its conclusion. It is disrespectful to be too concise in this part of a letter, especially when addressing a superior. The forms ascend, by various grades, from the plain " I am, Sir, Your humble servant...
Strana 330 - The persons inside the coach were Mr. Miller, a clergyman; his son, a lawyer ; Mr. Angelo, a foreigner ; his lady ; and a little child.