The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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Página 13
... invited there to render them justice . Lady Dunbar piques herself on her proficiency in the etiquettes of life , and loves to im press you with due admiration of her savoir vivre ; but not a creature was ever welcomed to the house from ...
... invited there to render them justice . Lady Dunbar piques herself on her proficiency in the etiquettes of life , and loves to im press you with due admiration of her savoir vivre ; but not a creature was ever welcomed to the house from ...
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... 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 has not the fatal fruit engendered ! Yet , surely , the factions of ...
... 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 has not the fatal fruit engendered ! Yet , surely , the factions of ...
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... invitation to one of his dinners , which I hear highly extolled by those , bien entendu , who hold " That to live well means nothing but to eat . " May 1. - What a beautiful city , is London at this season of the year , when the spring ...
... invitation to one of his dinners , which I hear highly extolled by those , bien entendu , who hold " That to live well means nothing but to eat . " May 1. - What a beautiful city , is London at this season of the year , when the spring ...
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... invited to some two hundred humdrum en- tertainments in exchange for their one . So far , so fair ! But , among the admirals ' wives , alas ! was a Lady La- vinia Tarpaulin , who had spritsailed her way through a fashionable winter at ...
... invited to some two hundred humdrum en- tertainments in exchange for their one . So far , so fair ! But , among the admirals ' wives , alas ! was a Lady La- vinia Tarpaulin , who had spritsailed her way through a fashionable winter at ...
Página 22
... invited to the duke's ball , and Lady That noticed by the dutchess . On Wednesday mornings she is always in a nervous flutter of spirits , about a voucher for Miss Ellen , or a subscription for Lady Sophia . Mr. Penrhyn , indeed , de ...
... invited to the duke's ball , and Lady That noticed by the dutchess . On Wednesday mornings she is always in a nervous flutter of spirits , about a voucher for Miss Ellen , or a subscription for Lady Sophia . Mr. Penrhyn , indeed , de ...
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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.