Striking likenesses; or, The votaries of fashion, Volume 2B. Clarke, 1808 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 221 - ... few hints, respecting the antiquity of the manor-house at Woodlands, and the reports that several of the rooms were haunted."12 In many nineteenth-century novels, satire is expressed by the characters themselves. A duchess, in Louisa Stanhope's Striking Likenesses (1808) exclaims sardonically: '"Did the bat shriek from the clustering ivy?