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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... eyes , the sweet expression of her countenance , her exquisite form and dignity , gained her the reputation of great beauty , which her portraits do not seem to verify . Sarah lived occasionally only in the duchess's household ; and ...
... eyes , the sweet expression of her countenance , her exquisite form and dignity , gained her the reputation of great beauty , which her portraits do not seem to verify . Sarah lived occasionally only in the duchess's household ; and ...
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... eyes , and a mouth expressive of sweetness , Churchill might well at- tract the fancy of a young girl who must have seen him almost daily . His merits as an officer had even then been owned by Turenne , who had added to his praise of ...
... eyes , and a mouth expressive of sweetness , Churchill might well at- tract the fancy of a young girl who must have seen him almost daily . His merits as an officer had even then been owned by Turenne , who had added to his praise of ...
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... eyes of Mary Beatrix , her patroness , and , her disguise half suspect- ed , had vaunted of the compliments paid her . But Sarah ab- stained from lowering herself ; and though afterward reigning over fashion as over politics , was ...
... eyes of Mary Beatrix , her patroness , and , her disguise half suspect- ed , had vaunted of the compliments paid her . But Sarah ab- stained from lowering herself ; and though afterward reigning over fashion as over politics , was ...
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... eyes were riveted by her graceful beauty . He could see nothing , hear nothing else . CC ,, " Being so near the table , " he wrote fifty years afterward , " you may naturally ask me what I might have heard to have passed in conversation ...
... eyes were riveted by her graceful beauty . He could see nothing , hear nothing else . CC ,, " Being so near the table , " he wrote fifty years afterward , " you may naturally ask me what I might have heard to have passed in conversation ...
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... eyes were dark and penetrating . Such was the man , to whose honor be it spoken that he even cherished for Mary of Modena a romantic and generous devotion , and to injure whom it was alleged by contemporaries that the wife of his friend ...
... eyes were dark and penetrating . Such was the man , to whose honor be it spoken that he even cherished for Mary of Modena a romantic and generous devotion , and to injure whom it was alleged by contemporaries that the wife of his friend ...
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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...