The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... fancy Lady Cecilia the most independent and easy person in the world ; but her ease turns out to be a labo- rious affair , -a perpetual warfare with the ceremonial of life . There is such a thing , I suspect , as being the slave of ...
... fancy Lady Cecilia the most independent and easy person in the world ; but her ease turns out to be a labo- rious affair , -a perpetual warfare with the ceremonial of life . There is such a thing , I suspect , as being the slave of ...
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... fancy takes him . No fashionable tradesman cares to be employed by those who have a right to examine his goods , and find fault with his prices . These people prefer clients many pages deep in their books , who dare not grumble at being ...
... fancy takes him . No fashionable tradesman cares to be employed by those who have a right to examine his goods , and find fault with his prices . These people prefer clients many pages deep in their books , who dare not grumble at being ...
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... fancy they are exercising their judgment . They see through the eyes of their heart , and hear with its ears ; and sometimes , unluckily , talk out of its abundance . Yesterday , at din- ner at the Delavals ' , a gradually rising murmur ...
... fancy they are exercising their judgment . They see through the eyes of their heart , and hear with its ears ; and sometimes , unluckily , talk out of its abundance . Yesterday , at din- ner at the Delavals ' , a gradually rising murmur ...
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... fancy ; to render life more easy and exquisite for those who know not a discomfiture beyond the rumpling of the rose - leaf ! Then , the two new quarters that arose under the reign of that king of the surfaces , George IV . ! - the ...
... fancy ; to render life more easy and exquisite for those who know not a discomfiture beyond the rumpling of the rose - leaf ! Then , the two new quarters that arose under the reign of that king of the surfaces , George IV . ! - the ...
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... fancy was confirmed . She said she should not live through the day , and ex- pired in the course of the evening . " 66 My dear Sir Jenison , believe me , it was some other person . Lady Clendinning is one of the last women in the world ...
... fancy was confirmed . She said she should not live through the day , and ex- pired in the course of the evening . " 66 My dear Sir Jenison , believe me , it was some other person . Lady Clendinning is one of the last women in the world ...
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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.