The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... beautiful it looks after my seven years ' banishment ! how beautiful and how prosper- ous ! What neatness , what completeness , after the rag- ged aspect of things at Ballyshumna ! Here I am not ashamed of living in comfort , or ...
... beautiful it looks after my seven years ' banishment ! how beautiful and how prosper- ous ! What neatness , what completeness , after the rag- ged aspect of things at Ballyshumna ! Here I am not ashamed of living in comfort , or ...
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... beautiful city , is London at this season of the year , when the spring breezes , disper- sing both fog and smoke , afford glimpses of blue sky ! What order in the streets ; -what courtesy , what splen- dour in the shops ! -Regent ...
... beautiful city , is London at this season of the year , when the spring breezes , disper- sing both fog and smoke , afford glimpses of blue sky ! What order in the streets ; -what courtesy , what splen- dour in the shops ! -Regent ...
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... beautiful face of my sister . Surely vanity does not mislead me into believing that , although a year younger than myself , she might pass for ten years my senior ? Yet I have spent a life of disappointment and repining , while she is ...
... beautiful face of my sister . Surely vanity does not mislead me into believing that , although a year younger than myself , she might pass for ten years my senior ? Yet I have spent a life of disappointment and repining , while she is ...
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... beautiful ! I dined first with Cecilia , and sat next Hanton ; who , between the courses , no- ticed that the frîacheur of my toilet was equal to that of the mullet , a great compliment from him . " You are going to a ball , eh ? -Great ...
... beautiful ! I dined first with Cecilia , and sat next Hanton ; who , between the courses , no- ticed that the frîacheur of my toilet was equal to that of the mullet , a great compliment from him . " You are going to a ball , eh ? -Great ...
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... beautiful . Nothing there to distract attention from the human face divine ; -no pic- tures - no statues - no gilding - no porcelain - no flow- ers . You have pretty music to listen to , pretty faces to look at , and the best society ...
... beautiful . Nothing there to distract attention from the human face divine ; -no pic- tures - no statues - no gilding - no porcelain - no flow- ers . You have pretty music to listen to , pretty faces to look at , and the best society ...
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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.