Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Her Friends, Volumen5J. Walker, 1811 |
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Página 43
... lives wholly on a milk diet , and she has certainly the most delicate constitu- tion possible . This is precisely , I fear , your case , my dear child , for you do not know how to nurse yourself * See Letter of the 7th of October . as ...
... lives wholly on a milk diet , and she has certainly the most delicate constitu- tion possible . This is precisely , I fear , your case , my dear child , for you do not know how to nurse yourself * See Letter of the 7th of October . as ...
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... lives at Commer- cy * , he will not be there long : he kills himself with close application , which grieves me sadly . I easily con- ceive your affliction at the death of the young canon . I can think of nothing else . I see , as you do ...
... lives at Commer- cy * , he will not be there long : he kills himself with close application , which grieves me sadly . I easily con- ceive your affliction at the death of the young canon . I can think of nothing else . I see , as you do ...
Página 45
... live . M. de Saint Herem has been perfectly adored at Fon- tainbleau , so well did he acquit himself in doing all the honours : only his wife took into her head to trick her self out at all points , not forgetting plenty of diamonds and ...
... live . M. de Saint Herem has been perfectly adored at Fon- tainbleau , so well did he acquit himself in doing all the honours : only his wife took into her head to trick her self out at all points , not forgetting plenty of diamonds and ...
Página 46
... live quite in the open air ; all my people as busy as bees in packing up for our removal . I en- camped in my own bed - chamber ; and am now in that of the worthy , my whole furniture being a little table , on which I now write to you ...
... live quite in the open air ; all my people as busy as bees in packing up for our removal . I en- camped in my own bed - chamber ; and am now in that of the worthy , my whole furniture being a little table , on which I now write to you ...
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... lives depend ; for you will allow me , madam , to include you all on this head . How comfortable you are together ! How happy you are in finding in your own families , what is sought for in vain every where else ; that is to say , the ...
... lives depend ; for you will allow me , madam , to include you all on this head . How comfortable you are together ! How happy you are in finding in your own families , what is sought for in vain every where else ; that is to say , the ...
Términos y frases comunes
abbé Adieu admire affair affection amuse assure beautiful beloved child bishop of Evreux Britany charmed chevalier compliments Conti Corbinelli COUNT DE BUSSY countess court dame daughter dauphiness dear child dear cousin dearest child delightful duke embrace fancy favour Fayette Fontanges Friday friendship Germain give Grignan Guitaut handsome happy hear heart heavens journey Jussac king la Fayette La Voisin lady of honour letter Livri louis-d'ors Louvois Luxembourg madame de Coligny madame de Coulanges madame de Maintenon madame de Montespan MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ madame de Vins mademoiselle marriage Marsillac Montgobert never obliged occasion Paris pass Paulina perfectly person pleased pleasure Pomponne poor pray pretty prince prince de Conti princess Provence queen received Rochefoucault Saint seen short talk tell thing thought thousand livres tion told Trousse uneasiness Vardes Vibraye Vichi Wednesday wish word write yesterday
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Página 329 - ... in a talk with you. . . . I look forward with delight to the prospect of meeting you. I shall get to Philadelphia in the Friday morning train, and leave on Saturday morning. The Central American trip is undecided, but I am certainly going somewhere, though I may not leave before the end of summer. There is so much to be said on this subject that I shall wait till I see you. What you say about yourself at the same time gratifies and troubles me. I have thought the same thing of your quiet Philadelphia...
Página 311 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Página 153 - ... in the evening before. I learned this sad intelligence from the Abbe de Grignan, and I confess to you it pierced me to the heart. I went to their house in the evening ; they saw no company in public. I went up stairs, and found them all three. M. de Pomponne embraced me without being able to utter a word ; the ladies could not restrain their tears, nor I mine. You would have wept too, my child ; it was really a melancholy spectacle ; the circumstance of our quitting each other at Pomponne so...
Página 87 - Il n'ya point de déguisement qui puisse longtemps cacher l'amour ou il est, ni le feindre où il n'est pas. No mask can long conceal love where it exists, nor feign it where it is not. See (Ger.) Love cannot be concealed.
Página 307 - Abbey 2, which the King has given to one of her sisters. This is a parting that will do honour to the severity of the confessor. Some people will have it, that this advancement has the air of a dismission; for my part, I believe nothing of the matter, but time will uncover all.
Página 262 - Crequi had next to fire, and though an excellent shot, he went a foot further from the mark than the Dauphin. 'Ah! little serpent,' cried Montausier, 'you ought to be strangled.' When the Duke gave up his post, and was taking his final leave of the Prince, he did it with the words, 'Sir, if you are an honest man, you will love me; if you are not, you will hate me, and I shall console myself.
Página 241 - ... stroke related by Voltaire. " La Reynie, one of the presidents of this chamber, was so ill-advised as to ask the Duchess de Bouillon if she had seen the devil. She replied that she saw him at that moment; that he was very ugly, and very dirty, and was disguised as a counselor of state.
Página 69 - I suppose my niece, the canoness, will send it to you soon. I shall ask your opinion of it when you and the amiable widow have read it. It seems too soon for you to go to Chaseu. Are not your meadows and your pretty river still frozen? You have certainly taken four or five days of March sunshine for summer, but they will soon show you, as they have shown us, that they are gay deceivers. I know not how you can like my letters. They are written in a style of carelessness, which I feel without being...
Página 15 - One thing, however, charmed Toussaint still more: it was the true piety which he found in Margaret. She treated him with the kindness of a Christian woman, and soon put him at his ease. 'The most illustrious Duchess of...