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... beauty , wit , and eccentricity . oddities were closely akin to madness , and at one time , before her marriage , she is stated to have been placed under restraint , on account of mental derangement . Nevertheless , many were her ...
... beauty , wit , and eccentricity . oddities were closely akin to madness , and at one time , before her marriage , she is stated to have been placed under restraint , on account of mental derangement . Nevertheless , many were her ...
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... beauty . His sojourn at Richmond he at last abandoned from a feeling of affront . The inhabitants deem- ing they had a right to a few yards of ground which the Duke , unconscious of any invasion of parochial claims , had taken into his ...
... beauty . His sojourn at Richmond he at last abandoned from a feeling of affront . The inhabitants deem- ing they had a right to a few yards of ground which the Duke , unconscious of any invasion of parochial claims , had taken into his ...
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... beauty rather than a defect , serving as a trophy of the glorious cause in which he had been engaged . " The Earl replied “ that he gave thanks to God , and to the Holy Virgin , for being thus honoured by a visit from the most potent ...
... beauty rather than a defect , serving as a trophy of the glorious cause in which he had been engaged . " The Earl replied “ that he gave thanks to God , and to the Holy Virgin , for being thus honoured by a visit from the most potent ...
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... beauty and thrilling interest , a spot which , apart from association with her , would be little more than a moorland waste . With all this general acquaintance with the Lady Jane , we have often found , even among edu- cated persons ...
... beauty and thrilling interest , a spot which , apart from association with her , would be little more than a moorland waste . With all this general acquaintance with the Lady Jane , we have often found , even among edu- cated persons ...
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... beauty side by side , " and gathered strength for the great battle of life , by communings with nature on the wild hills and valleys that surrounded their forest home . At all events , Lady Jane was still in the seclu- sion of Bradgate ...
... beauty side by side , " and gathered strength for the great battle of life , by communings with nature on the wild hills and valleys that surrounded their forest home . At all events , Lady Jane was still in the seclu- sion of Bradgate ...
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Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes of Ancestral Story, Volume 2 Sir John Bernard Burke Visualização integral - 1850 |
Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes of Ancestral Story, Volume 2 Sir Bernard Burke Visualização integral - 1851 |
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Página 78 - and tell you a truth which, perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing...
Página 78 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Página 26 - Fondness prevailed, mamma gave way, Kitty at heart's desire Obtained the chariot for a day, And set the world on fire!": "I am sure it must have been very inflammable,
Página 78 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Página 79 - Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.
Página 3 - Here didst thou dwell, here schemes of pleasure plan, Beneath yon mountain's ever beauteous brow : But now, as if a thing unblest by man, Thy fairy dwelling is as lone as thou ! Here giant weeds a passage scarce allow To halls deserted, portals gaping wide : Fresh lessons to the thinking bosom, how Vain are the pleasaunccs on earth supplied ; Swept into wrecks anon by time's ungentle tide...
Página 117 - Stanhope got up at ten o'clock, went out, and then returned to be dressed, if in London, by the hair-dresser ; and there were only two in London, both of them Frenchmen, who could dress her. Then she went out to dinner, and from dinner to the Opera, and from the Opera to parties, seldom returning until just before daylight.
Página 94 - ... with William, Earl of Douglas, father of Earl James, of whom we are now speaking, at his castle of Dalkeith, five miles from Edinburgh.
Página 245 - At forty minutes past four, the combatants were on the ground ; they both displayed the greatest coolness and courage. The friends of both parties retired, and the combatants, having a pistol in each hand, with directions to discharge them at their discretion, prepared to fire. They levelled, and before the lapse of a second, both shots were heard. Mr. D'Esterre's was first, and missed. Mr. O'Connell's followed instantaneously, and took effect in the thigh of his antagonist, about an inch above the...
Página 94 - Of all the battles, great or small, that have been described in this history, this of which I am now speaking was the best fought and the most severe: for there was not a man, knight, or squire, who did not acquit himself gallantly hand to hand with the enemy.