The Diary of a Désennuyée, Volumen1Harper, 1836 - 212 páginas |
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... town with my aunt Mar- garet Montresor , who , every year or two , used to mi- grate from Staffordshire to a ready - furnished house , where the windows would not open , nor the doors close , to persecute her solicitors with a new plea ...
... town with my aunt Mar- garet Montresor , who , every year or two , used to mi- grate from Staffordshire to a ready - furnished house , where the windows would not open , nor the doors close , to persecute her solicitors with a new plea ...
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... town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people to spoil me , -to set me in a wrong pattern . 99 66 After all , her notions are rather arbitrary . I used to fancy Lady Cecilia the most ...
... town for some months ; and declares that the Herberts are just the sort of humdrum people to spoil me , -to set me in a wrong pattern . 99 66 After all , her notions are rather arbitrary . I used to fancy Lady Cecilia the most ...
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... town till after Easter ; and nothing go- ing on till the end of May . The " nothing , " so called , consists , however , in nightly parties , twice as numer- ous and brilliant as any I have been in the habit of en- joying ; and last ...
... town till after Easter ; and nothing go- ing on till the end of May . The " nothing , " so called , consists , however , in nightly parties , twice as numer- ous and brilliant as any I have been in the habit of en- joying ; and last ...
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... 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 , and disdain the courtship of votes ? " " Absurd ! No one living ...
... 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 , and disdain the courtship of votes ? " " Absurd ! No one living ...
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... I am told they do in Paris . Lady Cecilia declares that three or four of the best houses in town have become insupportable during the last few years , on account of the state of parties ; among others , that of DIARY OF A Désennuyée . 15.
... I am told they do in Paris . Lady Cecilia declares that three or four of the best houses in town have become insupportable during the last few years , on account of the state of parties ; among others , that of DIARY OF A Désennuyée . 15.
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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.