The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... arrival , as lively and as agreeable as ever . She is enchanted that Armine and her husband will not be in town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people to spoil me , -to set me in a wrong ...
... arrival , as lively and as agreeable as ever . She is enchanted that Armine and her husband will not be in town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people to spoil me , -to set me in a wrong ...
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... arriving , as swarthy as a Moor , from his travels in Abyssinia , threatened , a few weeks ago , to dethrone him . But , unluckily , Penrhyn's grandfather , old Lord Penrhyn , is likely to die ; when he will become one of the wealthiest ...
... arriving , as swarthy as a Moor , from his travels in Abyssinia , threatened , a few weeks ago , to dethrone him . But , unluckily , Penrhyn's grandfather , old Lord Penrhyn , is likely to die ; when he will become one of the wealthiest ...
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... arrived cards , and ( without waiting to have them returned ) an invitation for a dinner - party , three weeks hence . - Sha'n't go ! What , but politics , can have been typified in the golden pippin of Ate ? and what ages of discord ...
... arrived cards , and ( without waiting to have them returned ) an invitation for a dinner - party , three weeks hence . - Sha'n't go ! What , but politics , can have been typified in the golden pippin of Ate ? and what ages of discord ...
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... arrive at Chalon's door with the bloom of exercise upon your cheek ! -I take it for granted Chalon is the man , as the only artist whose style ... arrived from the coun- try . " " Ah ! you have a sister ? Not the 30 DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
... arrive at Chalon's door with the bloom of exercise upon your cheek ! -I take it for granted Chalon is the man , as the only artist whose style ... arrived from the coun- try . " " Ah ! you have a sister ? Not the 30 DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
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... arrived country cousins , she has nothing to wear ; and , like most poor men's wives , no horses to drive . " " Let ... arrival in town is so recent , that her house has not yet acquired an in- habited look . The lustres are in canvass ...
... arrived country cousins , she has nothing to wear ; and , like most poor men's wives , no horses to drive . " " Let ... arrival in town is so recent , that her house has not yet acquired an in- habited look . The lustres are in canvass ...
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acquaintance agreeable Almack's amused Andernach Armine arrived bal costumé ball beautiful Bedfordshire better bon-ton bore Buntingford by-the-way Carlists carriage charming Clarence court cousin cried Crowhurst dear Delaval Devonshire House dine dinner drawing-room dress duchess Duke of Merioneth England English eyes fancy fashion favour feel French George Hanton Gresham Ronsham heard Herbault Herbert Hollybridge honour hour husband inquired invited Lady Alicia Lady Cecilia Lady Clackmannan Lady Farrington Lady Hartston Lady Mardynville Lady Maria Lady Southam last night London look Lord Hampton Lord Hartston Lord Lancaster Lord Penrhyn Merioneth House morning never observed old lady opera Paris Park party passed Percy Père la Chaise person poor prince Princess Rawdon replied Rhine royal scarcely season seems Sir Henry Sir Jenison sister society Staffordshire talk thing tion to-morrow tone town Trentwood Tuileries Vanguyon Vinicombe wife woman women yesterday young
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Página 216 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 217 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth: —It is the hour of feeling. One moment now may give us more Than years of toiling reason: Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.
Página 34 - They act as conductors to the storms usually hovering in the air. The man forced to remain at home, and vent his crossness on his wife and children, is a much worse animal to bear with than the man who grumbles his way to Pall Mall, and not daring to swear at the club-servants, or knock about the club-furniture, becomes socialised into decency. Nothing like the subordination exercised in a community of equals for reducing a fiery temper.