The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and RomanceMargaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy G. Henderson, Old Bailey, 1832 An illustrated women's magazine; includes extracts from novels, short stories, reviews, aphorisms, songs, philosophical discussions, and detailed descriptions of the latest clothing fashions from London and Paris. |
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... humble cottage , as many ladies who spend fortunes on dress and other vain show , and never have anything to give to the hundreds starving round them . Martha was a little girl when her father died , and it may be 13.
... humble cottage , as many ladies who spend fortunes on dress and other vain show , and never have anything to give to the hundreds starving round them . Martha was a little girl when her father died , and it may be 13.
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... dress ; and the arts that are used to convey her to our minds , are no argument that she is deficient , but so many testimonies of the corruption of our nature , when truth , of all things the plainest and the most sincere , is forced ...
... dress ; and the arts that are used to convey her to our minds , are no argument that she is deficient , but so many testimonies of the corruption of our nature , when truth , of all things the plainest and the most sincere , is forced ...
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... dress , raised her from the ground , and , with the velocity of an arrow darting from the bow , burried her along amidst the horrors of surrounding darkness . No accent broke the dreadful silence . For some moments she was borne ...
... dress , raised her from the ground , and , with the velocity of an arrow darting from the bow , burried her along amidst the horrors of surrounding darkness . No accent broke the dreadful silence . For some moments she was borne ...
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... dress of the cavaliers of the time ; -in all respects he was a model of that manly beauty which so peculiarly characterised the Italian youths . But how pale , pale as the snowy feather that waved in his cap ! He stretched forth his ...
... dress of the cavaliers of the time ; -in all respects he was a model of that manly beauty which so peculiarly characterised the Italian youths . But how pale , pale as the snowy feather that waved in his cap ! He stretched forth his ...
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... dress in general , and they are nearly all of the lightest kind , —silk ones being very little seen , and Italian straw , elegant and expensive as it is , still less . Rice straw , crape , tulle , gauze , lace , and various kinds of ...
... dress in general , and they are nearly all of the lightest kind , —silk ones being very little seen , and Italian straw , elegant and expensive as it is , still less . Rice straw , crape , tulle , gauze , lace , and various kinds of ...
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Algiers appeared arms Aurelia Barberoussa Baron beauty behold black lace blonde lace bosom bouillonné breath Bryan cambric capotes castle Celestina chapeau child Claireville colours composed corsage countenance courser crape dark daughter dear death deep Don Carlos dress Earl Emily EMILY GERARD exclaimed eyes fair fancy fashionable father favour fear feelings flounces flowers garniture gentle girl hand happy heard heart Heaven honour hope knew lace lady light Llangollen look Lord Louisa mantelets marabouts marriage Mexina morning MORNING DRESS mother muslin nature Nethertown never night once Osmond passed passementerie pink possessed proud redingote ribbon rich robe rose round satin scene seemed shade Signor silk Sir Eustace skirt smile soon soul spirit stranger taffeta tarlatane tears tell tender thee thou thought tight sleeves tion trimmed tulle Valenciennes lace velvet Villiers voice Wernerstoff wife woman young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 170 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Seite 168 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night...
Seite 248 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Seite 322 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Seite 353 - ... the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Seite 168 - By morrow evening, and from land to land In order, though to nations yet unborn, Ministering light prepared, they set and rise; Lest total darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life In nature and all things ; which these soft fires Not only...
Seite 352 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Seite 353 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died.
Seite 352 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Seite 147 - Achtermannshohe, a human figure of a monstrous size. A violent gust of wind having almost carried away my hat, I clapped my hand to it by moving my arm towards my head, and the colossal figure did the same.