The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... seasons . Just so it is with us . Armine looks at life through the sum- mer window , I through the winter ! Our prospects are alike , " alike - but , oh ! how different ! " It is therefore with my little diary that I must phi ...
... seasons . Just so it is with us . Armine looks at life through the sum- mer window , I through the winter ! Our prospects are alike , " alike - but , oh ! how different ! " It is therefore with my little diary that I must phi ...
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... season in town , and are now doing penance for their folly in some barrack of a palace on the Arno . Poor little bride ! it must have cost her many a pang to quit the shrine where she had been worshipped . There are a thousand traces of ...
... season in town , and are now doing penance for their folly in some barrack of a palace on the Arno . Poor little bride ! it must have cost her many a pang to quit the shrine where she had been worshipped . There are a thousand traces of ...
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... season , when nothing better is to be had . Be- sides , the habitués of the set have a way of discussing those who do not belong to them , which makes it pru- dent to join their forces . " " What unsafe people for friends ! " " You ...
... season , when nothing better is to be had . Be- sides , the habitués of the set have a way of discussing those who do not belong to them , which makes it pru- dent to join their forces . " " What unsafe people for friends ! " " You ...
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... season after season . But during this , your first spring in town , you must stand , cap in hand , in the market- place , to secure the most sweet voices of the people worth knowing . " " But if I choose to be an independent member ...
... season after season . But during this , your first spring in town , you must stand , cap in hand , in the market- place , to secure the most sweet voices of the people worth knowing . " " But if I choose to be an independent member ...
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... season . By - the - way , my dear , do you like Mr. Pen- rhyn ? " " The man who sat so long with us last night at the opera ? " 66 So long , indeed , that I began to apprehend mis- chief from the double barrels of Mrs. Percy's lorgnette ...
... season . By - the - way , my dear , do you like Mr. Pen- rhyn ? " " The man who sat so long with us last night at the opera ? " 66 So long , indeed , that I began to apprehend mis- chief from the double barrels of Mrs. Percy's lorgnette ...
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acquaintance agreeable Almack's amused Andernach Armine arrived bal costumé ball beautiful Bedfordshire better bon-ton bore Buntingford by-the-way Carlists carriage charming Clarence court cousin cried Crowhurst dear Delaval Devonshire House dine dinner drawing-room dress duchess Duke of Merioneth England English eyes fancy fashion favour feel French George Hanton Gresham Ronsham heard Herbault Herbert Hollybridge honour hour husband inquired invited Lady Alicia Lady Cecilia Lady Clackmannan Lady Farrington Lady Hartston Lady Mardynville Lady Maria Lady Southam last night London look Lord Hampton Lord Hartston Lord Lancaster Lord Penrhyn Merioneth House morning never observed old lady opera Paris Park party passed Percy Père la Chaise person poor prince Princess Rawdon replied Rhine royal scarcely season seems Sir Henry Sir Jenison sister society Staffordshire talk thing tion to-morrow tone town Trentwood Tuileries Vanguyon Vinicombe wife woman women yesterday young
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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.