The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... Poor little bride ! it must have cost her many a pang to quit the shrine where she had been worshipped . There are a thousand traces of womanli- ness in the house , such as were never impressed by the hand of an upholsterer ...
... Poor little bride ! it must have cost her many a pang to quit the shrine where she had been worshipped . There are a thousand traces of womanli- ness in the house , such as were never impressed by the hand of an upholsterer ...
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... poor Penrhyn ; a very pretty woman , with no further harm in her than an ap petite for being talked about with the most fashionable man of the season , be he who he may . Just now , she will not allow Penrhyn to call his soul his own ...
... poor Penrhyn ; a very pretty woman , with no further harm in her than an ap petite for being talked about with the most fashionable man of the season , be he who he may . Just now , she will not allow Penrhyn to call his soul his own ...
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... poor Mrs. Percy will make herself more ridic- ulous than ever . By - the - way , my dear , I recommend you to marry Penrhyn , and put them both out of their pain . 99 " Pray , find them some other cure , ” said I. " The thing I like ...
... poor Mrs. Percy will make herself more ridic- ulous than ever . By - the - way , my dear , I recommend you to marry Penrhyn , and put them both out of their pain . 99 " Pray , find them some other cure , ” said I. " The thing I like ...
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... poor Thistledown's house . Didn't he die , or something of that sort ? Ruined ? —Ah ! very true ! —I recollect now . He played - both hazard and the fool - and was done up before one had made up one's mind whether he was a man to be ...
... poor Thistledown's house . Didn't he die , or something of that sort ? Ruined ? —Ah ! very true ! —I recollect now . He played - both hazard and the fool - and was done up before one had made up one's mind whether he was a man to be ...
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... poor friend Thistledown , " added Armine , apparently with a view to his conciliation . " Was it ? I should have fancied it fitted up for an actress , " replied Herbert , rising , and trying to look through the conservatory into the ...
... poor friend Thistledown , " added Armine , apparently with a view to his conciliation . " Was it ? I should have fancied it fitted up for an actress , " replied Herbert , rising , and trying to look through the conservatory into the ...
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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.