Cecil, a Peer: A Sequel to Cecil, Or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb, Volumen3T. and W. Boone, 1841 |
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Página 38
... Lucca for change of air . At that period , Lucca was a grand duchy attached to a picture gallery . Now , alas ! the picture gallery is dispersed hither and thither ; and if the grand duchy be ever heard of in civilized Europe again , it ...
... Lucca for change of air . At that period , Lucca was a grand duchy attached to a picture gallery . Now , alas ! the picture gallery is dispersed hither and thither ; and if the grand duchy be ever heard of in civilized Europe again , it ...
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... Lucca ; -and I should have found it pleasant , perhaps , to meet them by moon- light alone , or by daylight in flocks and herds , but for my anxiety on account of my brother . The population of bathing places is much the same all over ...
... Lucca ; -and I should have found it pleasant , perhaps , to meet them by moon- light alone , or by daylight in flocks and herds , but for my anxiety on account of my brother . The population of bathing places is much the same all over ...
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... Lucca ( which is at a two hour's distance from the Baths , ) the ducal gallery , then undispersed . -In passing through the city , Danby had been too much indisposed for the effort ; but now that he was what is called convalescent , the ...
... Lucca ( which is at a two hour's distance from the Baths , ) the ducal gallery , then undispersed . -In passing through the city , Danby had been too much indisposed for the effort ; but now that he was what is called convalescent , the ...
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... Lucca , overlooked by all the world save a miserable professor or two , and a few fusty friars.— On visiting the palace , the Prince's librarian recited a sonnet in honour of his illustrissimi English visitors , during which operation ...
... Lucca , overlooked by all the world save a miserable professor or two , and a few fusty friars.— On visiting the palace , the Prince's librarian recited a sonnet in honour of his illustrissimi English visitors , during which operation ...
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... Lucca . It was a beautiful spot . A mountain river , brawling through the grounds , formed a curious contrast with the immobility of the marble statues looking out upon its fruitless turmoil from their niches in the clipped hedges of ...
... Lucca . It was a beautiful spot . A mountain river , brawling through the grounds , formed a curious contrast with the immobility of the marble statues looking out upon its fruitless turmoil from their niches in the clipped hedges of ...
Términos y frases comunes
arms Arthur Cornwallis beauty become better Birchington Boodle's bore brother called Cayenne Locksley Cecil child Chipp Chippenham comfort Connaught Place Crutchley Danby daughter dear death Devereux dinner domestic Duchess Earl England English eyes fancied father favour feelings fellow felt Frank Walsingham George IV Greyvin half Hamadryad hand Hanover Square happiness Harris heard heart Heaven Herries honour Ilfracomb Italian Italy Jane John Danby Julia knew Lady Ormington Lady Phoebe Locksley Lincoln's Inn Fields London look Lord Ashby Lord Harris lordship loved Lucca ment Mereworths mind Mitchelston nature ness never noble Nunziata olive gardens one's Ormington Hall party peerage perceive pleasant pretend Prince Princess Public RHÆCUS risum Rotherhithe scarcely Scriven Screwham seemed smile society sorrow soul spirit talking tears thing thought tion Titian trust uncon venerable voice Whigs wife woman words young youth
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Página 1 - Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me : I .Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you. Why have my sisters husbands if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Página 284 - Locks of pure brown, display'd th' encroaching white ; " The blood once fervid now to cool began, " And Time's strong pressure to subdue the man : * I rode or walk'd as I was wont before, " But now the bounding spirit was no more ; " A moderate pace would now my body heat, " A walk of moderate length distress my feet. " I show'd my stranger-guest those hills sublime, " But said, ' The view is poor, we need not climb.
Página 284 - And bless'd the shower that gave me not to choose. In fact, I felt a languor stealing on ; The active arm, the agile hand were gone ; Small daily actions into habits grew, And new dislike to forms and...
Página 56 - God ordain'ed not so. Home flies the Prince and to his trembling Wife Relates the new-past hazard of his life, Which she with decent passion hears him tell ; For not her own fair Eyes she lov'ed so well.
Página 284 - I learn'd to play at chess ; I took my dog and gun, but saw the brute Was disappointed that I did not shoot ; My morning walks I now could bear to lose, And bless'd the shower that gave me not to choose.
Página 161 - Le caprice a taillé son petit nez charmant ; Sa bouche a des rougeurs de pêche et de framboise ; Ses mouvements sont pleins d'une grâce chinoise, Et près d'elle on respire, autour de sa beauté, . Quelque chose de doux comme l'odeur du thé.
Página 284 - Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white ; The blood, once fervid, now to cool began, And Time's strong pressure to subdue the man. I rode or walked as I was wont before, But now the bounding spirit was no more ; A moderate pace would now my body heat ; A walk of moderate length distress my feet. I showed my stranger guest those hills sublime, But said, " The view is poor ; we need not climb...
Página 161 - Pour veiner de son front la pâleur délicate, Le Japon a donné son plus limpide azur ; La blanche porcelaine est d'un blanc bien moins pur Que son col transparent et ses tempes d'agate. Dans sa prunelle humide un doux rayon éclate ; Le chant du rossignol près de sa voix est dur, Et, quand elle se lève à notre ciel obscur, On dirait de la lune en sa robe d'ouate. Ses yeux d'argent bruni roulent moelleusement ; Le caprice a taillé...
Página 165 - Locksley had a dozen such volumes; and it was probably in the hope of getting them inscribed therein, in the most delicately illegible of hands upon the most satin of papers, that I strung together the following Delia Cruscan STANZAS. I dreamt one day a waking dream, Brighter than Slumber's are, Of wandering where the planets gleam, Like an unsphered star; Round a Chimera's yielding neck With grasping hands I clung; No need of spur, — no fear of check, — Those fields of air among.
Página 105 - But I am apt to grow too metaphysical : " The time is out of joint," and so am I : I quite forget this poem's merely quizzical, And deviate into matters rather dry. I ne'er decide what I shall say, and this I call Much too poetical : men should know why They write, and for what end ; but, note or text, I never know the word which will come next.