The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... minds , in the plainest English ever uttered by lips polite ; each reviling the particular friends or par- ticular party of the other . Lady Cecilia , who hates to have the pleasantness of her parties broken in upon , kept trying to ...
... minds , in the plainest English ever uttered by lips polite ; each reviling the particular friends or par- ticular party of the other . Lady Cecilia , who hates to have the pleasantness of her parties broken in upon , kept trying to ...
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... mind whether he was a man to be known . How- ard was rash enough to put him up at White's ; which was amazingly wrong of Howard , who has himself only one leg to stand upon . ' 66 99 Now , do just look at those Dresden vases , and those ...
... mind whether he was a man to be known . How- ard was rash enough to put him up at White's ; which was amazingly wrong of Howard , who has himself only one leg to stand upon . ' 66 99 Now , do just look at those Dresden vases , and those ...
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... mind to push forward into society . A ball seemed their readiest mounting - stone , and a ball they determined to give , under the sponsorship of some Lady Ap Shenkin or other , the wife of a Welsh baronet neighbour . The company ...
... mind to push forward into society . A ball seemed their readiest mounting - stone , and a ball they determined to give , under the sponsorship of some Lady Ap Shenkin or other , the wife of a Welsh baronet neighbour . The company ...
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... mind . After making the tour of Europe , Sir William O'Blarney will probably return to his country a polished , open - minded , open - hearted man . But it will require many a rub to teach him the useful art of self - knowledge . One ...
... mind . After making the tour of Europe , Sir William O'Blarney will probably return to his country a polished , open - minded , open - hearted man . But it will require many a rub to teach him the useful art of self - knowledge . One ...
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... mind to accept a man universally stigmatized as the cavaliere servente of a married woman . Poor Sir Jenison Delaval has just attained a crisis in his destiny , which makes the matrimonial yoke he has been wearing , till it has grown ...
... mind to accept a man universally stigmatized as the cavaliere servente of a married woman . Poor Sir Jenison Delaval has just attained a crisis in his destiny , which makes the matrimonial yoke he has been wearing , till it has grown ...
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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.