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... time , so that at least these lines might remain a record of the excellence of the Mother , and the gratitude of the Son . E. L. B. LONDON : January 4 , 1840 . PELHAM ; OR , ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN . CHAPTER vi DEDICATION.
... time , so that at least these lines might remain a record of the excellence of the Mother , and the gratitude of the Son . E. L. B. LONDON : January 4 , 1840 . PELHAM ; OR , ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN . CHAPTER vi DEDICATION.
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... least , for he was always celebrated for his skill in private theatricals . He was just retiring to vent his grief in his dressing - room , when he met my mother . It must alto- gether have been an awkward encounter , and , indeed , for ...
... least , for he was always celebrated for his skill in private theatricals . He was just retiring to vent his grief in his dressing - room , when he met my mother . It must alto- gether have been an awkward encounter , and , indeed , for ...
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... least : they eat in quiet , move in quiet , live in quiet , and lose their wife , or even their money , in quiet ; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it . To render ...
... least : they eat in quiet , move in quiet , live in quiet , and lose their wife , or even their money , in quiet ; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it . To render ...
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... least prominent ingredient of her establishment . There was in it no uncalled - for ostentation - no purse - proud vulgarity— - no cringing to great , and no patronising condescension to little people ; even the Sunday newspapers could ...
... least prominent ingredient of her establishment . There was in it no uncalled - for ostentation - no purse - proud vulgarity— - no cringing to great , and no patronising condescension to little people ; even the Sunday newspapers could ...
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... least minutiæ , discover in what the difference consisted this is , in my opinion , the real test of perfect breeding . While you are enchanted with the effect , it should possess so little prominency and peculiarity , that you should ...
... least minutiæ , discover in what the difference consisted this is , in my opinion , the real test of perfect breeding . While you are enchanted with the effect , it should possess so little prominency and peculiarity , that you should ...
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Aberton acquaintance admirable answered appeared beautiful Bedos better called CHAPTER character Cheltenham Chester Chester Park Chitterling Clandonald Clutterbuck colour companion confession conversation countenance cried Curaçoa dark Dartmore Dawson dear dinner discovered door dress Duchesse Ellen England entered eyes favour fear feeling fellow fortune Garrett Park gentleman Glanville's Guloseton hand heard heart Heaven Henry Pelham honour hope horse hour imagine Job Jonson Lady Harriet Lady Roseville laugh looked Lord Dawton Lord Vincent Lufton Madame d'Anville mind Monsieur Margot morning mother nature never Newmarket night once Palais Royal Paris passed passion pause Pelham perhaps Perpignan person pleasure poor replied returned rose round Russelton scarcely seemed Sir John Tyrrell Sir Lionel Sir Reginald Glanville smile soon taste tell thing Thornton thought tion tone took turned Tyrrell's vanity voice wish woman words Wormwood young
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Página 371 - But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above, And the Heavens reject not. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?— PB SHELLEY.
Página 214 - Of my mortality, my youth has acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures — sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol — are inconstant friends When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind.
Página 86 - ... golden wig (the duchesse never liked me to play with her hair) was on a block close by, and on another table was a set of teeth, d'une blancheur eblouissante.
Página 22 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Página 161 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil...