 Cloudesley and Eudocia. To his own apprehension he was the favourite of fortune. All that he had read of tragic and disastrous in the annals of mankind seemed like a drama, prepared to make him wise by the sorrows of others, without costing him a particle...  Cloudesley, by the author of 'Caleb Williams'. - Page 263by William Godwin - 1830Full view - About this book
 | 1830 - 622 pages
...of experience. All that he had encountered of displeasing was when he was the inmate of Borroraeo ; and this, though felt by him as intolerable, he was...the reverse that had now fallen upon him ! That he, whu had never contemplated the slightest mischief to a human creature; whose life had been all kindness,... | |
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...own apprehension he was the favourite of fortune. All that he had read of tragic and disastrous in the annals of mankind, seemed like a drama, prepared...the slightest mischief to a human creature, whose l,fe had been all kindness, and beneficence, and good-humour, should suddenly be treated as the vilest... | |
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...own apprehension he was the favourite of fortune. All that he had read of tragic and disastrous in the annals of mankind seemed like a drama, prepared...whose life had been all kindness, and beneficence, and good-humour, should suddenly be treated as the vilest of criminals, shut up in a dungeon, and destined... | |
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...own apprehension he was the favourite of fortune. All that he had read of tragic and disastrous in the annals of mankind seemed like a drama, prepared...had never contemplated the slightest mischief to a hnman creature, whose life had been all kindness, and beneficence, and good-humour, should suddenly... | |
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