Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1807, Volumen2Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, J. Hatchard, Mrs. Cook, 1809 - 220 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Adieu affection againſt amuſement Auguftus bafin beautiful becauſe beft beſt Charlotte cife DEAR FRIEND defire eafy eaſe elegant exerciſe faid fame fancy faſhionable fcene feel feem fend fenfe fenfible fentiment fhades fhall fhort fhould fifter fince fincere fingular firſt fituation fmall fociety fome foon forrow Fort George fpirits friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffering fummer fuperior fuppofe fupport fure fweet GLASGOW happineſs hear heart herſelf hope houſe inftance intereft juft juſt laft Laggan laſt leaſt lefs LETTER live MACINTOSH manners meaſure Mifs mind MISS EWING MISS OURRY moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never obferve occafion paffed paſt perfon Perth Petrina pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed prefent racters reafon ſcene ſee ſhall ſhe ſmall ſpeak ſtate ſtill tafte taſte tell tenderneſs thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe tion ufual underſtanding unleſs uſed vifit whofe whoſe wiſh wonder yourſelf
Pasajes populares
Página 255 - Their rain-deer form their riches. Thefe their tents, Their robes, their beds, and all their homely wealth , Supply, their wholefome fare, and chearful cups.
Página 133 - Monday, being the day that all dwellers in glens come down for their supplies. Item, at four o'clock Donald arrives with a horse loaded with butter, cheese, and milk. The former I must weigh instantly. He only asks an additional blanket for the children, a covering for himself, two milk tubs...
Página 100 - Englifh word out of their mouths till they are four or five years old. How I...
Página 270 - ... them. To refute her arguments would be to write another and a larger book ; for there is more pains and (kill required to refute ill-founded affertions, than to make them.
Página 152 - ... than they did in the market. Lois was Lois in town or country. Some subtile power lay in the coarse, distorted body, in the pleading child's face, to rouse, wherever "they went, the same curious, kindly smile. Not, I think, that dumb, pathetic eye, common to deformity, that cries, " Have mercy upon me, O my friend, for the hand of God hath touched me!
Página 140 - The bard, as I was about to tell you, is as great a favourite of fortune as of fame, and has got more by the old harp of Ossian than most of his predecessors could draw out of the silver strings of Apollo. He has bought three small estates in this country within two years, given a ball to the ladies, and made other exhibitions of wealth and liberality.
Página 273 - ... felt she was not like other cats, but had acquired a greater power of making disturbance, which she was resolved to use to the very utmost, and so would neither be quiet herself, or suffer any one else to remain so. I leave the application to you. Our powers are extremely well adapted to the purposes for which they are intended; and if now and then faculties of a...
Página 100 - You cannot think what a fource of pleafure my little acquaintance with that emphatic and original language has afforded me. I am determined my children mail all drink " from the pure wells of Celtic undefiled.
Página 270 - ... assertions, than to make them. Nothing can be more specious and plausible, for nothing can delight Misses more than to tell them they are as wise as their masters. Though, after all, they will in every emergency be like Trinculo in the storm, when he crept under Caliban's gaberdine for shelter.
Página 84 - ... mountain, we travel eastward through twelve miles of bleak, inhospitable country, inhabited only by moor-fowl, and adorned with here and there a booth, erected for a temporary shelter to shepherds, who pass the summer with their flocks in these lonely regions. On leaving this waste, you enter a vale six miles in length, and half a mile broad, which wants nothing but wood to be beautiful ; it has indeed some copses, or what the Scottish bards call shaws.