I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

A Woman never looks better than on horseback