The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... Armine for whisper- ing , on the eve of our union , that an acquaintance of six weeks scarcely justified me in placing my happiness within his keeping . What prescience , alas ! rendered her so wise ? How came she to guess that Delaval ...
... Armine for whisper- ing , on the eve of our union , that an acquaintance of six weeks scarcely justified me in placing my happiness within his keeping . What prescience , alas ! rendered her so wise ? How came she to guess that Delaval ...
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... Armine and myself with vis- its to the dentist , staymaker , shoemaker , the waxwork , and the Eidouranion , -Hatchard's and Rivington's , ― to torment our souls and bodies into the way they should go ! Ten years , however , have since ...
... Armine and myself with vis- its to the dentist , staymaker , shoemaker , the waxwork , and the Eidouranion , -Hatchard's and Rivington's , ― to torment our souls and bodies into the way they should go ! Ten years , however , have since ...
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... Armine and her husband will not be in town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people to spoil me , -to set me in a wrong pattern . 99 66 After all , her notions are rather arbitrary . I used to ...
... Armine and her husband will not be in town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people to spoil me , -to set me in a wrong pattern . 99 66 After all , her notions are rather arbitrary . I used to ...
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... feel safe in their society ; nor can I help lis- tening to ascertain whether the ice on which we are sliding together be not giving way under our feet 99 Would that Armine and my brother - in - law 12 DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
... feel safe in their society ; nor can I help lis- tening to ascertain whether the ice on which we are sliding together be not giving way under our feet 99 Would that Armine and my brother - in - law 12 DIARY OF A DÉSENNUYÉE .
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... Armine and I were young and disengaged ; and then , as now , having eyes only for an entrée . His time and fortune are spent in ministering to his palate ; and a firstrate education seems to have instructed him in nothing but the ...
... Armine and I were young and disengaged ; and then , as now , having eyes only for an entrée . His time and fortune are spent in ministering to his palate ; and a firstrate education seems to have instructed him in nothing but 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.