The Book of the Boudoir, Band 1H. Colburn, 1829 - 662 Seiten |
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... play will be given to national tenden- cies , and when the sarcastic author of the O'Don- nels and the O'Briens , having nothing to find fault with , will be reduced to write , " à l'eau rose , ” books for boudoirs , or albums for ...
... play will be given to national tenden- cies , and when the sarcastic author of the O'Don- nels and the O'Briens , having nothing to find fault with , will be reduced to write , " à l'eau rose , ” books for boudoirs , or albums for ...
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... in such apt and gracious words , That aged ears play truant to his tales , And younger hearings are quite ravished : So sweet and voluble is his discourse . " ETERNITY . A COLLECTION of the opinions and desires of 50 RACONTEURS .
... in such apt and gracious words , That aged ears play truant to his tales , And younger hearings are quite ravished : So sweet and voluble is his discourse . " ETERNITY . A COLLECTION of the opinions and desires of 50 RACONTEURS .
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... play of the centre of a salon . As we stood wedged on the threshold of fashion , my dazzled eyes rested for a moment , on a strikingly sullen - looking hand- some creature , whose boyish person was distin- guished by an air of ...
... play of the centre of a salon . As we stood wedged on the threshold of fashion , my dazzled eyes rested for a moment , on a strikingly sullen - looking hand- some creature , whose boyish person was distin- guished by an air of ...
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... play the short - armed orator with her ; she will be here by and by . This is the Duchess of St. A― , she has your • Wild Irish Girl ' by heart . Where is Sheridan ? Do , my dear Mr. T- ; ( this is Mr. T , my dear- Geniuses should know ...
... play the short - armed orator with her ; she will be here by and by . This is the Duchess of St. A― , she has your • Wild Irish Girl ' by heart . Where is Sheridan ? Do , my dear Mr. T- ; ( this is Mr. T , my dear- Geniuses should know ...
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... play ; but my howl was fune- real ; I was ready to cry in character , but endea- voured to laugh , and to cover out my real timidity by an affected ease , which was both awkward and impolitic . The best coquetry of the young and in ...
... play ; but my howl was fune- real ; I was ready to cry in character , but endea- voured to laugh , and to cover out my real timidity by an affected ease , which was both awkward and impolitic . The best coquetry of the young and in ...
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Seite 50 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 124 - ... vanished. I remembered that his wife carried on some little trade in the old town ; I remembered even the house and flat she occupied, which I had often visited in my boyhood. Having made it out, I found the old woman in widow's mourning. Her husband had been dead for some months, and had told her, on his death-bed, that my father's steward had wronged him of some money ; but that when Master Tom returned he would see her righted.
Seite viii - O'Briens' was going through the press, Mr. Colburn was sufficiently pleased with the subscription (as it is called in the trade) to the first edition, to desire a new work from the author. I was just setting off for Ireland, the horses literally putting-to—when Mr.
Seite 110 - Mr. Kemble was evidently much pre-occupied, and a little exalted ; and he appeared actuated by some intention, which he had the will, but not the power, to execute. He was seated...
Seite 123 - I was descending the steps of a close, or coming out from a bookseller's shop, I met our old family butler. He looked greatly changed, pale, wan, and shadowy as a ghost. " Eh! old boy," I said, "what brings you here ?" He replied, " To meet your honour, and solicit your interference with my lord, to recover a sum due to me, which the steward...
Seite 100 - English tan, without time to go through the necessary course of training in manners or millinery, for such an awful transition : so, with no chaperon but my incipient notoriety, and actually no toilet but the frock and...
Seite 109 - I had got into a very delightful conversation with my veteran beaux, when Mr. Kemble was announced. Lady C k reproached him as " the late Mr. Kemble ;" and then, looking significantly at me, told him who I was. Kemble, to whom I had been already presented by Mrs. Lefanu, acknowledged me by a kindly nod; but the intense stare which succeeded, was not one of mere recognition. It was the glazed, fixed look, so common to those who have been making libations to altars which rarely qualify them for ladies
Seite 104 - ... of a salon. As we stood wedged on the threshold of fashion my dazzled eyes rested for a moment on a strikingly sullen-looking handsome creature, whose boyish person was distinguished by an air of singularity, which seemed to vibrate between hauteur and shyness. He stood with his arms crossed, and alone, occupying a corner near the door, and though in the brilliant bustling crowd, was 'not of it.
Seite 111 - C k), and, reading, with his deep emphatic voice, one of the most high-flown of its passages, he paused, and patting the page with his fore-finger, with the look of 'Hamlet' addressing ' Polonius,' he said, 'Little girl, -why did you write such nonsense ? and where did you get all these dd hard words ? ' Thus taken by surprise, and ' smarting with my wounds ' of mortified authorship, I answered unwittingly and witlessly, the truth : ' Sir, I wrote as well as I could, and I got the hard words out...
Seite 125 - I remember you having expressed your approbation of my style of writing, and a wish that I would lose no occasion of rendering it useful. I wish I could agree with your ladyship in your kind and partial opinion ; but, as there never was an occasion in which it can be more useful to excite popular feeling than in the cause of the Greeks, I send your ladyship a copy of the second edition, published a few days ago. "With regard and esteem, &c. &c. E. " No. 13, Arabella Row, Pimlico, London, October...