The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... 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 one's liberty . I believe , however , I cannot put ...
... 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 one's liberty . I believe , however , I cannot put ...
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... person who changes or dismisses his tradesmen as the 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 ...
... person who changes or dismisses his tradesmen as the 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 ...
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... persons ; or , if persons , those whose conversation was improving , and whose example edifying . Living , as I have done , in what the Americans would call " the bush , " I longed to form for myself a circle of enlightened men and ...
... persons ; or , if persons , those whose conversation was improving , and whose example edifying . Living , as I have done , in what the Americans would call " the bush , " I longed to form for myself a circle of enlightened men and ...
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... person . He is fond of naked truths , and I am modest enough to like even the truth a little drapée . Armine admired ... persons I named as my intimate associates . Had he not been there , she would have probably explained herself ; but ...
... person . He is fond of naked truths , and I am modest enough to like even the truth a little drapée . Armine admired ... persons I named as my intimate associates . Had he not been there , she would have probably explained herself ; but ...
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... person . Lady Clendinning is one of the last women in the world to die in that sort of way , of a common cold . " " But it was not a common cold - it was an inflamma- tion of the lungs . " " Well ! common or uncommon , I know she was at ...
... person . Lady Clendinning is one of the last women in the world to die in that sort of way , of a common cold . " " But it was not a common cold - it was an inflamma- tion of the lungs . " " Well ! common or uncommon , I know she was at ...
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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.