The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... things at Ballyshumna ! Here I am not ashamed of living in comfort , or travelling for my en- joyment . The lofty pyramid of society , whose regu- lar gradation is so perceptible , from the wide basis to the tapering apex , seems as if ...
... things at Ballyshumna ! Here I am not ashamed of living in comfort , or travelling for my en- joyment . The lofty pyramid of society , whose regu- lar gradation is so perceptible , from the wide basis to the tapering apex , seems as if ...
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... thing I am determin- ed : I bid defiance to the mere ennuis of life . Never again will I submit to be bored ! 66 My cousin , Lady Cecilia Delaval , writes me word , that the house she has engaged for me , in St. James's Place , is a ...
... thing I am determin- ed : I bid defiance to the mere ennuis of life . Never again will I submit to be bored ! 66 My cousin , Lady Cecilia Delaval , writes me word , that the house she has engaged for me , in St. James's Place , is a ...
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... thing , I suspect , as being the slave of one's liberty . I believe , however , I cannot put myself under safer tutelage than hers . No one is so much the fash- ion . She commands the interest and influence of her sister , the ...
... thing , I suspect , as being the slave of one's liberty . I believe , however , I cannot put myself under safer tutelage than hers . No one is so much the fash- ion . She commands the interest and influence of her sister , the ...
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... thing I like least is a dowager dandy , - -a superannuated London man - an out - pensioner of White's - without an idea or an ambition beyond St. James's Street . Your Mr. Penrhyn connaît bien son Londres , but he knows nothing else ; I ...
... thing I like least is a dowager dandy , - -a superannuated London man - an out - pensioner of White's - without an idea or an ambition beyond St. James's Street . Your Mr. Penrhyn connaît bien son Londres , but he knows nothing else ; I ...
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... thing in the eyes of such people as the Mardyn- villes . In the course of ten minutes , up came Lady Dunbar , all smiles , -Lady Mardynville , all courtesies , — determined to make my acquaintance . " Long desirous of the honour ...
... thing in the eyes of such people as the Mardyn- villes . In the course of ten minutes , up came Lady Dunbar , all smiles , -Lady Mardynville , all courtesies , — determined to make my acquaintance . " Long desirous of the honour ...
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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.