The Queens of Society: By Grace and Philip Wharton [pseuds.] Illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle and the Brothers DalzielHarper & brothers, 1861 - 488 páginas |
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... London , and the domestic happiness of the young couple seem- ed to be complete . It is curious to find the great Marlborough , the terror of Europe , writing to his young wife about their child in these terms , thus affording a proof ...
... London , and the domestic happiness of the young couple seem- ed to be complete . It is curious to find the great Marlborough , the terror of Europe , writing to his young wife about their child in these terms , thus affording a proof ...
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... London , Dr. Compton , who had been Anne's tutor , they passed through the streets , and , unobserved , arrived at the episcopal palace , then in the city . On the ensuing day the fugitives went to Copt Hall , the seat of the Earl of ...
... London , Dr. Compton , who had been Anne's tutor , they passed through the streets , and , unobserved , arrived at the episcopal palace , then in the city . On the ensuing day the fugitives went to Copt Hall , the seat of the Earl of ...
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... London that winter ; his desire to see her , if only for one moment ; his hopes that she was going to make him the happiest man in the world , while he was to make her ( who was already the wisest and the best ) the happiest of women ...
... London that winter ; his desire to see her , if only for one moment ; his hopes that she was going to make him the happiest man in the world , while he was to make her ( who was already the wisest and the best ) the happiest of women ...
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... London world as Smith de Hog - lane , or Green - Bottom Jones , Esq . This silly preten- sion is rare in England , though , we believe , common in Scot- land , where every Thomson or Johnson gives himself an air of antiquity by tacking ...
... London world as Smith de Hog - lane , or Green - Bottom Jones , Esq . This silly preten- sion is rare in England , though , we believe , common in Scot- land , where every Thomson or Johnson gives himself an air of antiquity by tacking ...
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... London by Turgot on a secret mis- sion , and there became editor of the " Courrier de l'Europe , " a paper at that time bearing a not very good reputation . He was there associated with a set of foreigners of the worst char- acter ; and ...
... London by Turgot on a secret mis- sion , and there became editor of the " Courrier de l'Europe , " a paper at that time bearing a not very good reputation . He was there associated with a set of foreigners of the worst char- acter ; and ...
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Página 81 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
Página 471 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 373 - I do not believe it beguiling, Because it reminds me of thine; And when winds are at war with the ocean, As the breasts I believed in with me, If their billows excite an emotion It is that they bear me from thee.
Página 239 - Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore : And all the while harmonious airs were heard Of chiming strings, or charming pipes, and winds Of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned From their soft wings, and Flora's earliest smells.
Página 465 - Many that then saw his tears, and heard his faint and hollow voice, professing they thought the text prophetically chosen, and that Dr. Donne had preached his own funeral sermon.
Página 121 - I found her in a little miserable bedchamber of a ready-furnished house, with two tallow candles, and a bureau covered with pots and pans. On her head, in full of all accounts, she had an old black-laced hood, wrapped entirely round, so as to conceal all hair or want of hair. No handkerchief, but up to her chin a kind of horseman's ridingcoat, calling itself a...
Página 111 - ... very well to be distinguished through it. The antery is a waistcoat, made close to the shape, of white and gold damask, with very long sleeves falling back, and fringed with deep gold fringe, and should have diamond or pearl buttons.
Página 348 - I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to soothe and conciliate him, and not as a humiliating abasement at the expense of my country. But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky ; for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland...