The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volume 1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... talk was so very small , and the big looks so very big , that I took refuge in my own observations . " You will like them better when their jargon ceases to be an unknown tongue , " said Lady Cecilia , after pre- senting me to our ...
... talk was so very small , and the big looks so very big , that I took refuge in my own observations . " You will like them better when their jargon ceases to be an unknown tongue , " said Lady Cecilia , after pre- senting me to our ...
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... talk- ing delightfully with all my might for the gratification of strangers . " " My dear , you must give yourself a few months " trouble , if you intend to be popular . Once established as an agreeability , your reputation will carry ...
... talk- ing delightfully with all my might for the gratification of strangers . " " My dear , you must give yourself a few months " trouble , if you intend to be popular . Once established as an agreeability , your reputation will carry ...
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... talk out of its abundance . Yesterday , at din- ner at the Delavals ' , a gradually rising murmur reached us from the end of the table farthest from the place where I was quietly eating my soup , which at length deepened into a decided ...
... talk out of its abundance . Yesterday , at din- ner at the Delavals ' , a gradually rising murmur reached us from the end of the table farthest from the place where I was quietly eating my soup , which at length deepened into a decided ...
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... Talk to him of the state of the arts during the middle ages , and he will answer that , in those times , forest venison was a most delicious thing ; and , in the way of chronology , instead of dating from " before the invention of ...
... Talk to him of the state of the arts during the middle ages , and he will answer that , in those times , forest venison was a most delicious thing ; and , in the way of chronology , instead of dating from " before the invention of ...
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... talk over things and people whom I could not frankly dis- cuss in his presence ; indeed , I was quite sufficiently taken up with examining his wife , and noting the prog- ress of time in her dear familiar face . And how dear , -how very ...
... talk over things and people whom I could not frankly dis- cuss in his presence ; indeed , I was quite sufficiently taken up with examining his wife , and noting the prog- ress of time in her dear familiar face . And how dear , -how very ...
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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.