The Farmer of Inglewood Forest: Or, An Affecting Portrait of Virtue and Vice

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J. Cleave and Son, 1823 - 504 頁
 

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第 82 頁 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where he vital breathes, there must be joy.
第 1 頁 - Tis indeed at distance A goodly prospect, tempting to the view ; The height delights us, and the mountain-top Looks beautiful, because 'tis nigh to Heaven ; But we ne'er think how sandy's the foundation, What storm will batter, and what tempest shake us.
第 59 頁 - Nor waited he reply. Won by the charm Of goodness irresistible, and all In sweet disorder lost, she blush'd consent.
第 202 頁 - Parr was married, first to Jane, of the ancient house of Mauleverer, in Yorkshire; and afterwards to Mary, sister of the late Rev. James Eyre, of Solihull. By his first wife he had several children, all of whom died in their infancy, except Sarah and Catherine.
第 495 頁 - ... the fervant, who returned the fire, and lodged the contents of his piftol in the body of the unfortunate plunderer.
第 234 頁 - Among others, my late master's father, Mr Walters, came to view me, but thought me not fit for labour ; his son, who was about my own age, was with him, and looked upon me with such compassion, that, sensible of my situation, I could not avoid saying, ' If I must be a slave, I had rather be so with you than any other.
第 491 頁 - Yet fhe endeavoured, by afiuming appearances of fatisfaeiion, which were very far from her heart, to retain fome portion of the regards of the man...
第 359 頁 - Fanny, my love," said he, '• in our affliction for the dead we must not forget our duties to the living. Suffer me to lead thee from this scene of mortality ; thou hast performed all that duty and tenderness require. Oh, Fanny, in how many sorrows have my unhappy family involved theel When I contemplate thy patience and virtues, how often do I complain of my own unworthiness, and exclaim, that I am blessed above the lot of DtaB.
第 48 頁 - ... unable to combat his passion for a married woman, had terminated his existence. Emma's heart was not formed of unfeeling materials, and the catastrophe cost her many tears. The heroine was represented virtuous, yet she apparently loved the suicide — circumstances that Emma had thought incompatible, for how, had ever before whispered her innocent heart, can a good woman love any man but her husband ? The hapless lover, too, was mentioned with pity and tenderness — sentiments in which the humanity...
第 142 頁 - Her gentle spirits were overpowered with the scene that had taken place ; her head sunk on Edwin's bosom, and she could scarcely preserve herself from fainting. In that fatal moment the guardian angel of virtue and innocence, for a short time, left the unhappy and too susceptible Agnes, —and the villain Edwin succeeded in his infernal purpose. Daughters of chastity, condemn not, but pity ! May example warn you that Secrecy and Temptation are ever to be avoided.

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