The midwife: or, The old woman's magazine, 1. köide1750 |
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... lives near him , and that he can help me off with the greatest Part of the Impreffion , if the Paper be of good Subftance . But after all the Opinions of these great People I fhall rely on my own Judgment , which I think preferable to ...
... lives near him , and that he can help me off with the greatest Part of the Impreffion , if the Paper be of good Subftance . But after all the Opinions of these great People I fhall rely on my own Judgment , which I think preferable to ...
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... live like the reft of the World ; a powerful Argument , which is feldom ufed to a Woman without Effect . Lady Giddy was inceffantly relating the Occurrences of the Town , and Mrs. Gravely told her privately , with great Tenderness ...
... live like the reft of the World ; a powerful Argument , which is feldom ufed to a Woman without Effect . Lady Giddy was inceffantly relating the Occurrences of the Town , and Mrs. Gravely told her privately , with great Tenderness ...
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... live with my Mamma , who confidered me as an Ufurper , that had feized the Rights of a Woman without a just Claim , and was pufhing her down the Precipice of Age , that I might reign without a Superiour . While I am thus beheld with ...
... live with my Mamma , who confidered me as an Ufurper , that had feized the Rights of a Woman without a just Claim , and was pufhing her down the Precipice of Age , that I might reign without a Superiour . While I am thus beheld with ...
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... live in a State of continual Perfecution , only because I was born ten Years too foon , and cannot stop the Courfe of Nature , or of Time , but am unhappily a Woman before my Mother can willingly cease to be a Girl . I believe you would ...
... live in a State of continual Perfecution , only because I was born ten Years too foon , and cannot stop the Courfe of Nature , or of Time , but am unhappily a Woman before my Mother can willingly cease to be a Girl . I believe you would ...
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... lives to feel more Diftrefs . But , if the Villain , the cruel , the inhuman Villain ! ftill refufes to provide for her and his Child , his Name and Place of Abode fhall foon be made public By Mary Midnight . A Journey to PARIS : In a ...
... lives to feel more Diftrefs . But , if the Villain , the cruel , the inhuman Villain ! ftill refufes to provide for her and his Child , his Name and Place of Abode fhall foon be made public By Mary Midnight . A Journey to PARIS : In a ...
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Page 64 - ... to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over —
Page 64 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Page 219 - Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone; And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, That lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, So loving-jealous of his liberty. ROMEO. I would I were thy bird.
Page 65 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not...
Page 64 - At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper.
Page 137 - At length a glimmering light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the forerunner of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day. However, the fire fell at a distance from us : then again we were immersed in thick darkness, and a heavy shower of ashes rained upon us, which we were obliged every now and then to...
Page 62 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
Page 135 - As soon as it was light again, which was not till the third day after this melancholy accident, his body was found entire, and without any marks of violence upon it, exactly in the same posture that he fell, and looking more like a man asleep than dead.
Page 134 - The court which led to his apartment being now almost filled with stones and ashes, if he had continued there any time longer, it would have been impossible for him to have made his way out; it was thought proper therefore to awaken him.
Page 136 - Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid, the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open...