The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... happiness as may lie at the purchase of pounds , shillings , and pence . Yet , how strange a destiny is mine ! A widow at five- and - twenty , with six thousand a year , and an honourable position in society , -good health , good ...
... happiness as may lie at the purchase of pounds , shillings , and pence . Yet , how strange a destiny is mine ! A widow at five- and - twenty , with six thousand a year , and an honourable position in society , -good health , good ...
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... happiest moment I have experienced in London was that in which , for the first time these four years , I fold- ed ... happiness , worth worlds of poetry . But , after all , is this possible ? —The spring comes with its blossoms to the ...
... happiest moment I have experienced in London was that in which , for the first time these four years , I fold- ed ... happiness , worth worlds of poetry . But , after all , is this possible ? —The spring comes with its blossoms to the ...
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... happiness of a visit from a very dear friend , Lady Southam , who is come to town to take her turn as lady - in - waiting ; still the same kind , amiable , straightforward person as when , as Lord Randall's daughter , she used to ...
... happiness of a visit from a very dear friend , Lady Southam , who is come to town to take her turn as lady - in - waiting ; still the same kind , amiable , straightforward person as when , as Lord Randall's daughter , she used to ...
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... happiness of doting upon his idol through an opera - glass the whole of the day . Lord Hartston passed us twice ; and I observed the Duke of Merioneth , who was talking to us at the time , take off his hat with the deference he would ...
... happiness of doting upon his idol through an opera - glass the whole of the day . Lord Hartston passed us twice ; and I observed the Duke of Merioneth , who was talking to us at the time , take off his hat with the deference he would ...
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... happiness . What have you done to improve these blessings ? Branded yourself with fashionable notoriety , and rendered your name as familiar in the mouths of the puppies of the clubs as those of the vile and worthless . One of the first ...
... happiness . What have you done to improve these blessings ? Branded yourself with fashionable notoriety , and rendered your name as familiar in the mouths of the puppies of the clubs as those of the vile and worthless . One of the first ...
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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.