Word: ams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This certainly indicates despair or madness, but no! His wounded affections were soon healed, and shortly, he writes that: "I am indeed glad to be rid of her," and proceeds to renew a correspondence he had formerly held with a "charming Dutch woman." This affection, and still another, he quickly...
Boswell at length married an Irish lady, for the sole reason, so far as I can discover, that she was willing to marry him; this was so unusual a chance that he appears to have embraced it eagerly. His marriage, however, did not radically change him, and we are not...
But Boswell's heart could stand a good deal of trouble without breaking, and within two years after his wife's death, he writes that he is to meet a certain "young lady of about seven-and-twenty. Liely and gay, but of excellent principles, insomuch that she reads prayers...
"They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they...
This was an admirable period, and an admirable place for me to lay aside my pen. But my conscience, or a dxmon, or a vision, or something bids me write on. For to tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been...