dorilaus

Updated: June 15, 2025

He provided him a handsome field-equipage, rich cloaths, horses, and a servant to attend him; and while these things were getting ready, had masters to perfect him in riding; and those other exercises proper for the vocation he was now entering into, all which he performed with so good a grace, that not only Dorilaus himself, who might be suspected to look on him with partial eyes, but all who saw him were perfectly charmed.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Dorilaus on this immediately sent to let her know his son was well, and expected in Paris the next day, for he would not suffer him to appear before her, or the baron, till a habit was made for him more agreeable to his condition than that he arrived in.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Tho', said she blushing, I cannot reveal the history of my birth without laying open the errors of those to whom I owe my being, yet I shall not think the sacrifice too great to recompence the obligations you have laid upon me; and then proceeded to acquaint him with every thing relating to her parents, as well as to herself, from the first moment she was found in the garden of Dorilaus.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Dorilaus, who, in the midst of a thousand temptations, had maintained the entire liberty of his heart, and tho' never insensible of beauty, had never been enslaved by it, was now by charms he least suspected, and at an age when he believed himself proof against all the attacks of love, subdued without knowing that he was so.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

No words were exchanged between them for a considerable time, but oh my dear son, my ever loved Horatio, on the one side, my more than father, patron, on the other: at length the tumultuous rapture of so unexpected a meeting and reception, giving way to a more peaceful calm, Dorilaus made Horatio relate all the particulars had happened to him; and when he had ended, now, said he, I will reward the sincerity I easily perceive you have made use of in this narrative, by acquainting you, in my turn, with secrets you are far from having any notion of, and which, I believe, will compensate for all your sufferings, and make you own, that while you seemed to groan under the utmost severities of fortune, she was preparing for you all the blessings in her power to give, and even more than your ambition aimed at.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Never had the most dutiful child loved the tenderest of fathers more than she did Dorilaus; but then it was only a filial affection, and the very thoughts of his regarding her with that sort of passion she now found he did, had somewhat in them terribly alarming. All she could do to reconcile herself to what seemed to be her fate was in vain.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

She seemed extremely comforted with these words; and the coach being at the door, went into it with her accustomed chearfulness, leaving him in a state which none but those who have experienced the severe struggles between a violent inclination and a firm resolution to oppose it, can possibly conceive. Relates the offers made by Dorilaus to Louisa, and the manner of her receiving them.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Louisa had all this time seemed like one in a dream: she had ever loved Dorilaus with a filial affection; and to find herself really his daughter, to be snatched at once from all those cares which attend penury, when accompanied with virtue, and an abhorrence of entering into measures inconsistent with the strictest honour, to be relieved from every want, and in a station which commanded respect and homage, was such a surcharge of felicity, that she was less able to support than all the fatigues she had gone thro' Surprize and joy made her appear more dull and stupid than she had ever been in her whole life before; and Dorilaus was obliged to repeat all he had said over and over again, to bring her into her usual composedness, and enable her to give him the satisfaction he required.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Haywood's "Fortunate Foundlings" , by Moore's popular comedy, "The Foundling" , and last and greatest by "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" , not to mention "The Female Foundling" . Eliza Haywood's contribution to foundling literature relates the history of twins, brother and sister, found by a benevolent gentleman named Dorilaus in the memorable year 1688.

George Frisbie Whicher - The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood

Tho' the sounds which still continued to issue from it left Dorilaus no room to doubt what it contained; he stooped down to look, and saw two beautiful babes neatly dressed in swadling cloaths: between them and the pillow they were laid upon was pinned a paper, which he hastily taking off, found in it these words.

Eliza Fowler Haywood - The Fortunate Foundlings: Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister,: Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs,: Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful: Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with: the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,: In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for: the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.