The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... once saw in a pa- vilion , near the Lake of Windermere , four contiguous windows of variously stained glass , imparting to the same landscape the aspect of the four seasons . Just so it is with us . Armine looks at life through the sum ...
... once saw in a pa- vilion , near the Lake of Windermere , four contiguous windows of variously stained glass , imparting to the same landscape the aspect of the four seasons . Just so it is with us . Armine looks at life through the sum ...
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... Once established as an agreeability , your reputation will carry you on , season after season . But during this , your first spring in town , you must stand , cap in hand , in the market- place , to secure the most sweet voices of the ...
... Once established as an agreeability , your reputation will carry you on , season after season . But during this , your first spring in town , you must stand , cap in hand , in the market- place , to secure the most sweet voices of the ...
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... once saw what pretended to be a suprême de volaille at his table , which was liter- ally made of veal . " or " And what then - do you suppose he ordered such a substitute ? " " No ! -but what an opinion must his cook have had of his ...
... once saw what pretended to be a suprême de volaille at his table , which was liter- ally made of veal . " or " And what then - do you suppose he ordered such a substitute ? " " No ! -but what an opinion must his cook have had of his ...
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... once resident in the vast , square , roomy mansions of its dark and narrow lanes , I learn that not a merchant of eminence sleeps within sound of Bow Bell ; and hence the difficulty of appropriately filling up those civic offices ...
... once resident in the vast , square , roomy mansions of its dark and narrow lanes , I learn that not a merchant of eminence sleeps within sound of Bow Bell ; and hence the difficulty of appropriately filling up those civic offices ...
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... once a beauty and a wit , -an heiress in her youth , a countess in her middle age . Yet she lived without a friend , and died without a mourner ; for she , alas ! had stooped to be disagreeable . As a beau- ty , she was envious ; as a ...
... once a beauty and a wit , -an heiress in her youth , a countess in her middle age . Yet she lived without a friend , and died without a mourner ; for she , alas ! had stooped to be disagreeable . As a beau- ty , she was envious ; as a ...
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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.