 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...something of religious, and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion ; she had one or two confidents with whom she used to pass whole days in fasting, reading, and prayers, especially befpre the monthly communion and other solemn occasions. She abhorred flattery, and though she had... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...mouethly communion and other solemn occasions. She abhorr'd flattery, and tho' she had aboundance of witt, the raillery was so innocent and ingenuous that it...she sometimes would see a play, but since the stage grew licentious, express'd herselfe weary of them, and the time spent at the theater was an unaccountable... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1827 - 458 pages
...monethly communion and other solemn occasions. She abhorr'd flattery, and tho' she had aboundance of witt, the raillery was so innocent and ingenuous that it...she sometimes would see a play, but since the stage grew licentious, express'd herselfe weary of them, and the time spent at the theater was an unaccountable... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 468 pages
...insinuating something of reli-. ' gious, and that tended to bring them to a love of ' devotion. She had one or two confidants with whom ' she used to pass...reading, ' and prayers, especially before the monthly com" munion and other solemn occasions. " She abhorred flattery ; and though she had abun" dance of... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Consolation - 1830 - 268 pages
...improve them by insinuating something of religion, and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion. She abhorred flattery ; and though she had abundance...innocent and ingenuous, that it was most agreeable. She danced with the greatest grace I had ever seen ; but she seldom shewed that perfection, save in the... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pages
...by insinuating something of religion, and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion. She had one or two confidants, with whom she used to pass...abundance of wit, the raillery was so innocent and ingenious that it was most agreeable ; she sometimes would see a play, but since the stage grew licentious,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Women - 1836 - 756 pages
...by insinuating something of religious, and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion. She had one or two confidants, with whom she used to pass whole days in fasting, and reading, and prayers, especially before the monthly communion and other solemn occasions. " She... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Bereavement - 1842 - 298 pages
...improve them by insinuating something of religion, and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion. She abhorred flattery ; and though she had abundance...innocent and ingenuous, that it was most agreeable. She danced with the greatest grace I had ever seen ; but she seldom showed that perfection, save in the... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1847 - 352 pages
...virtuous exercises." It is in particular related of her, that amongst her intimate associates, " she had one or two confidants, with whom she used to pass...the monthly communion, and other solemn occasions." Whilst on a visit to Lady Falkland, who had conceived for her a great affection, and whose pattern... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...of religious, and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion. She had one or two confidant«, oler abhorrai flattery, and though she had abundance of wit, the raillery was so innocent and ingenious,... | |
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... with whom she used to pass whole days in fasting, reading, and prayers, especially before the monthly communion, and other solemn occasions. 
