Recollections of a chaperon

Why is it that the bustling matron, who (having, without preference or selection, married the first man who proposed to her,) has spent her days in the unsentimental details of...

_Gerarda._—Que todo se aprende hija y no hai cosa mas facil que engañar a los hombres de que ellos tienen la culpa; porque como nos han privado el estudio de los ciencios en que...

At length the decisive moment came. Lord Delaford made his proposals to Isabella, and was accepted. Isabella herself, in all the flush and agitation of the event which decided h...

Surtout les femmes nourries dans la mollesse, l’abondance et l’oisiveté, sont indolentes et dédaigneuses pour tout ce détail. Elles ne font pas grande différence entre la vie ch...

Nae mair of that, dear Jenny: to be free, There’s some men constanter in love than we. They’ll reason caumly, and with kindness smile, When our short passions wad our peace begu...

Trepideva pur anche per quel pudore che non nasce dalla triste scienza del male, per quel pudore che ignora se stesso, somigliante alla paura del fanciullo che trema nelle teneb...

Affection true and strong, and simpleness His goods and chattels, and her bridal dower! Riches more sure two wedded hearts to bless Than fortune’s proudest gifts in partial hour...

What spirit e’er so gentle shall be found, So softly reared in humble privacy; What form so fragile on wide earth’s vast round, Shrinking from every blast beneath the sky, That...

This simple history of such interesting feelings made Lucy reflect a good deal. She looked back on her sisters’ courtships and weddings, and could not persuade herself they had...

Il n’est pas bien honnête, et pour beaucoup de causes, Qu’une femme étudie et sache tant de choses. Former aux bonnes mœurs l’esprit de ses enfans, Faire aller son ménage, avoir...

“Enfin ils me mettaient à mon aise: et moi qui m’imaginais qu’il y avait tant de mystère dans la politesse des gens du monde, et qui l’avais regardé comme une science qui m’étai...

“A l’age où j’étais on n’a pas le courage de résister à tout le monde, je crus ee qu’on me disait tant par docilité que par persuasion; je me laissai entraîner, je fis ce qu’on...

Oh, never may the hope that lights thine eyes, Sweet maid, be changed to disappointment’s gloom; Never th’ ingenuous frolic laugh I prize To the forced smile that care must oft...

_Calantha._—To court, good brother, ere her bloom of mind Be set for fruit? Oh, take her not to court, Where we be slaves to petty circumstance Of empty form and fashion. Where...

Une belle femme est aimable dans son naturel, elle ne perd rien à être negligée, et sans autre parure que celle qu’elle tire de sa beauté et de sa jeunesse. Une grace naïve écla...

When in London, Lucy, although in perfect health, and peculiarly active and alert, was not permitted to go out. She was chained to the sofa, till she almost longed to be a littl...

Lucy could scarcely command herself so as to answer her husband, without betraying a degree of emotion which might have been prejudicial to him in his present state of weakness....

Les gens vertueux sont rares, mais ceux qui estiment la vertu ne le sont pas; d’autant moins qu’il y a mille occasions dans la vie, où l’on a absolument besoin des personnes qui...

Mais ne savez-vous pas que notre âme est encore plus superbe que vertueuse, plus glorieuse qu’honnête, et par conséquent plus délicate sur les intérêts de sa vanité que sur ceux...

J’ai vu une jolie femme dont la conversation passoit pour un enchantement, personne au monde ne s’exprimoit comme elle, c’étoit la vivacité, c’étoit la finesse même qui parlait:...

So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for th...

Lord Montreville was sitting before a table, covered with papers and books, with a novel open before him, of which he had not turned over a leaf for at least thirty-six minutes....

Wad fain thy dauntless valour sing, Resistless as the tempest’s wing That wave on wave does dashing fling Upon the shore, Yet mild thy soul as breath of spring When war is o’er.

“When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged; but when the dictates o...

During the whole of that winter, the —— dragoons were kept on constant duty in the district in which they were quartered; thanks, however, to the unceasing activity of their com...

“Est-il point vray, ou si je l’ay songé, Qu’il m’est besoin m’éloigner ou distraire De votre amour, et en prendre congé? Las! je le veux, et ne le puis faire— Que dis-je, veux!...

How fair thy vales, thy hills how beautiful! The sun, who sheds on thee his parting smiles, Sees not in all his wide career a scene Lovelier, nor more exuberantly blessed By bou...

The head-quarters of the —— Dragoons were, as we have seen, at Calbury; two or three troops being stationed in the surrounding villages. An order now arrived from the Horse Guar...

Concerning the materials of sedition, it is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them;...

The prospect of a protracted stay at Calbury gave Colonel Warenne no promise of a return to tranquillity of mind. The apprehension of danger past, the routine of military duties...

Libels and licentious discourses against the state, when they are frequent and open; and in like sort false news often running up and down to the disadvantage of the state, and...

Give good hearing to those that give the first information in business, and rather direct them in the beginning, than interrupt them in the continuance of their speeches; for he...

A voi parlo, in cui fanno Si concorde armonia Onesta, senno, onor, bellezza, e gloria; A voi spiego il mio affanno E della pena mia Narro, e’n parte piangendo, acerba istoria.

There may be joys Which to the strange o’erwhelming of the soul Visit the lover’s breast beyond all others; E’en now, how dearly do I feel there may! But what of them? they are...

It will be remembered that Warenne, before he left Calbury, had written to General Mapleton a detailed account of the reasons which induced him to break through the repeated ord...

There’s a thanklessness In our fallen nature that too lightly holds The good too lightly won. Fortune’s minion, Whose pamper’d sense the luscious banquet courts, Ere he can say,...

Of late years education has become a subject of general care and attention. But there may be excess even in so amiable a feeling as the devotion of a parent to a child; that ver...

The following spring Fitz-Eustace again passed the season in London. He had been disappointed in his hopes of being returned for a borough; the scenes of dissipation which had c...

And is this eye, with tears o’erfraught, To thine no longer known? This eye that read the tender thought Erewhile soft trembling in thine own; By thee, alas! to weep since taugh...

Years rolled on. Lord Sotheron was more and more engrossed in public affairs, and the time at length arrived when Maria regretted those days when he was unknown, and unnoticed,...

Emily was nearly eighteen, and she was to appear in the world as became the daughter of Lord Sotheron. They went to London. Maria made up her mind never to accompany her daughte...

In a small but neat drawing-room, in the principal town of ——shire, Captain Wareham and his family were assembled at breakfast. Captain Wareham himself was sitting with the news...

_Cleanthes._—She’ll be a castaway—my life upon ’t. _Hermione._—Man argues from his fiercer will, nor knows True virtue’s quality in woman’s breast. My daughter, sir, is virtuous...

——Love’s sooner felt than seen: Oft in a voice he creeps down through the ear; Oft from a blushing cheek he lights his fire; Oft shrouds his golden flame in likest hair; Oft in...

And such the colouring fancy gave To a young, warm, and dauntless chief,— And as a lover hails the dawn Of a first smile, so welcomed he The sparkle of the first sword drawn For...

Mr. Hamilton’s manner became more and more marked, and before the expiration of his second visit to Lord Coverdale’s, be one day took courage and spoke his sentiments to Ellen.

The last few words of the ceremony were quickly hurried over. Ellen was supported into the vestry, where she quickly recovered; and the circumstance of a bride’s fainting was no...

It was with difficulty that Algernon and Ellen could fix their eyes upon the paper; every thing swam before them. They read in silence the following letter—with what feelings ma...

We that did nothing study but the way To love each other, with which thoughts the day Rose with delight to us, and with them set, Must learn the cruel art how to forget. ——Like...

From our own paths, our love’s attesting bowers, I am not gone, In the deep hush of midnight’s whispering hours Thou art not lone! Not lone when by the haunted stream thou weepe...

How did poor Hamilton meanwhile pass the time of his weary exile? It would have been wretchedness to him to have been recognised, to have been obliged to answer the usual inquir...

See the poor captive from his dungeon break, Where long he pined, and hail the light of day, With eyes that in the broad effulgence ache, With smiles that ’mid deep lines of ang...

Ellen was one morning quietly seated in the back drawing-room which had been given up to her and her children; the elder ones were employed, George in reading to his mother, and...

_Gomez._—And wouldst thou bare thy bosom’s grief to one, A dull mechanic, who but stares on thee With cold unmeaning wonder? I had rather The secret pang should rankle at the co...

And sudden hurricanes sweep all around, That strip the tender leaves, and whirl amain, While dread convulsions heave the shuddering ground, And rocks, and caves, with hollow moa...

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable. “You shall read,” saith he, “that we are command...

With the guide-book in his hand, Algernon proceeded in his search. It was the time of year when London was very empty, and at many houses he found the family were out of town. O...

Lord Besville’s carriage, as previously arranged, conveyed her to the court-house. The curious mob gave way, with an expression of pity, as Ellen, assisted by her father, and by...

Cher petiot, bel amy, tendre fils que j’adore, Cher enfançon, mon souicy, mon amour, Te voy, mon fils, te voy, et veux te veoir encore, Pour ce trop brief me semblent nuiet et j...

Las! Si j’avois pouvoir d’oublier Sa beauté, sa beauté, son bien dire, Et son tant doux, tant doux regarder, Finiroit mon martire. Mais, Las! Mon cœur je n’en puis ôter; Et gran...

Cresford, as we have before mentioned, had given his mind to business; but his visionary schemes of aggrandizement had not proved successful. He had, on the contrary, involved t...