The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... leaving me and my jointure free liberty to search the world for as much happiness as may lie at the purchase of pounds , shillings , and pence . Yet , how strange a destiny is mine ! A widow at five- and - twenty , with six thousand a ...
... leaving me and my jointure free liberty to search the world for as much happiness as may lie at the purchase of pounds , shillings , and pence . Yet , how strange a destiny is mine ! A widow at five- and - twenty , with six thousand a ...
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... leave , " than you seem to have had wit to discover . The man has a gift of solemn irony , which victimizes even the most wary . But for the di- version he has found in making game of the Percy by his persiflage , he never would have ...
... leave , " than you seem to have had wit to discover . The man has a gift of solemn irony , which victimizes even the most wary . But for the di- version he has found in making game of the Percy by his persiflage , he never would have ...
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... leaves ! First came Lady Evelyn Beres- ford , all softness and grace , who never speaks above a whisper , and dies of every breath of air , even in a west- erly wind . She has always a very little cough - so small , that it seems , like ...
... leaves ! First came Lady Evelyn Beres- ford , all softness and grace , who never speaks above a whisper , and dies of every breath of air , even in a west- erly wind . She has always a very little cough - so small , that it seems , like ...
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... leaves him no excuse for being a pique- assiette . Although a man of family and high connex ions , Penrhyn is as abject a tuft - hunter as if born a feather - merchant in the borough . " " He must have grievously incensed you , " said I ...
... leaves him no excuse for being a pique- assiette . Although a man of family and high connex ions , Penrhyn is as abject a tuft - hunter as if born a feather - merchant in the borough . " " He must have grievously incensed you , " said I ...
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... who have basked in the sunny side of society , are apt to fancy virtue a thing of descent , or matter of course , leaving it to be inculca- ted by the governess , with geography and the use 50 DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
... who have basked in the sunny side of society , are apt to fancy virtue a thing of descent , or matter of course , leaving it to be inculca- ted by the governess , with geography and the use 50 DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
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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.