The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... Dear England ! How beautiful it looks after my seven years ' banishment ! how beautiful and how prosper- ous ! What neatness , what completeness , after the rag- ged aspect of things at Ballyshumna ! Here I am not ashamed of living in ...
... Dear England ! How beautiful it looks after my seven years ' banishment ! how beautiful and how prosper- ous ! What neatness , what completeness , after the rag- ged aspect of things at Ballyshumna ! Here I am not ashamed of living in ...
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... Be more gracious , my dear Lady Cecilia , " said I. Compare her , at least , to a sprig of sweet - brier - fra- grant and charming to those who handle it with dexter- ity . " In that " She , too , is the centre DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
... Be more gracious , my dear Lady Cecilia , " said I. Compare her , at least , to a sprig of sweet - brier - fra- grant and charming to those who handle it with dexter- ity . " In that " She , too , is the centre DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
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... dear , you must give yourself a few months " trouble , if you intend to be popular . Once established as an agreeability , your reputation will carry you on , season after season . But during this , your first spring in town , you must ...
... dear , you must give yourself a few months " trouble , if you intend to be popular . Once established as an agreeability , your reputation will carry you on , season after season . But during this , your first spring in town , you must ...
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... dear , do you like Mr. Pen- rhyn ? " " The man who sat so long with us last night at the opera ? " 66 So long , indeed , that I began to apprehend mis- chief from the double barrels of Mrs. Percy's lorgnette , steadily levelled at you ...
... dear , do you like Mr. Pen- rhyn ? " " The man who sat so long with us last night at the opera ? " 66 So long , indeed , that I began to apprehend mis- chief from the double barrels of Mrs. Percy's lorgnette , steadily levelled at you ...
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... dear , I recommend you to marry Penrhyn , and put them both out of their pain . 99 " Pray , find them some other cure , ” said I. " The thing I like least is a dowager dandy , - -a superannuated London man - an out - pensioner of ...
... dear , I recommend you to marry Penrhyn , and put them both out of their pain . 99 " Pray , find them some other cure , ” said I. " The thing I like least is a dowager dandy , - -a superannuated London man - an out - pensioner of ...
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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.