The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... never so fairly submitted to our judgment as when arrayed in black and white before us . Here , therefore , begins my first chapter of a new existence . A sad one , or a merry ? Oh ! for a sibyl to unfold ! On one thing I am determin ...
... never so fairly submitted to our judgment as when arrayed in black and white before us . Here , therefore , begins my first chapter of a new existence . A sad one , or a merry ? Oh ! for a sibyl to unfold ! On one thing I am determin ...
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... never to see him in private .. Lady C. is , in short , a woman of what is called the world . She has prodigious tact ; always some little scheme or other on foot , and which invariably suc- ceeds . But , after all , the objects she ...
... never to see him in private .. Lady C. is , in short , a woman of what is called the world . She has prodigious tact ; always some little scheme or other on foot , and which invariably suc- ceeds . But , after all , the objects she ...
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... never beheld so bored a man ! Yet he seems afraid of declaring off ; for there is no sort of esclandre she is not capable of provoking , in order to appear the heroine of a romance . 66 ' Why does he not manage to get out of fashion ...
... never beheld so bored a man ! Yet he seems afraid of declaring off ; for there is no sort of esclandre she is not capable of provoking , in order to appear the heroine of a romance . 66 ' Why does he not manage to get out of fashion ...
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... never carried their barbarian ani- mosities to so unchristian a pitch , as the polite hatred of modern Whig and Tory . Since the triumph of the Catholic Question , political spleen has become a spe- cies of endemic at the west end ; a ...
... never carried their barbarian ani- mosities to so unchristian a pitch , as the polite hatred of modern Whig and Tory . Since the triumph of the Catholic Question , political spleen has become a spe- cies of endemic at the west end ; a ...
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... never have thought of them again . " Such is the worldliness of the world ! Thus easily are broken those brittle ties of spun - glass , which one forms in the chance - medley of a season . People are true to their relations , and ...
... never have thought of them again . " Such is the worldliness of the world ! Thus easily are broken those brittle ties of spun - glass , which one forms in the chance - medley of a season . People are true to their relations , and ...
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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.