The Favourite of Nature: A Tale, المجلد 2

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Wells and Lilly, 1822
 

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الصفحة 316 - Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another/' and if " it is a sort of foresight of the disasters that may befal our-selves/' Eliza's tears, and .ill-suppressed sobs had a more than commonly exciting cause. It was true that she anticipated neither to herself nor Mr. Waldegrave any such disastrous incidents as attended the loves of Romeo and Juliet, but a general resemblance of ill-fated attachment she trembled to presage. A passion founded in dishonour, (and what but dishonour had...
الصفحة 387 - ... tears again interrupted her. He seemed to writhe under the sight of her anguish. Every movement indi-cated the indecision and distress of his mind. At length, unable any longer to support the conflict of his feelings, " Miss Rivers!" he exclaimed, " I be-seech you to hear me. From the first moment I beheld you, I felt for you the highest sentiments of admiration. I need not say, that every succeeding interview served but to increase them. When I knew how you were circum-stanced, I ought most...

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