Peers and Parvenus: A Novel, Band 2H. Colburn, 1846 |
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... course render impossible . It was not so much the orgies of men like Cleveland that were likely to endanger his reason , as the enervation arising from the frivolities of the gay world . As yet , his experience of female society was ...
... course render impossible . It was not so much the orgies of men like Cleveland that were likely to endanger his reason , as the enervation arising from the frivolities of the gay world . As yet , his experience of female society was ...
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... course of his visits to public monuments and historical sites , his fine person attracted notice . True to his resolution of living a retired life , he had forwarded , unaccompanied by his name or address , the letters intrusted to him ...
... course of his visits to public monuments and historical sites , his fine person attracted notice . True to his resolution of living a retired life , he had forwarded , unaccompanied by his name or address , the letters intrusted to him ...
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... course a despot in his turn , Jervis Cleve was startled by the abject and machine - like subjection of every member of the household . The will of Prince Lobanoff was executed almost before it was ex- pressed ; the service of the ...
... course a despot in his turn , Jervis Cleve was startled by the abject and machine - like subjection of every member of the household . The will of Prince Lobanoff was executed almost before it was ex- pressed ; the service of the ...
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... course , that Hindon will bore you to death . It always did me . - But what can you do better ? As you do not belong to the yacht club , to fall from the skies at Cowes , would only be a show - up . - And as to Brighton , where I should ...
... course , that Hindon will bore you to death . It always did me . - But what can you do better ? As you do not belong to the yacht club , to fall from the skies at Cowes , would only be a show - up . - And as to Brighton , where I should ...
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... Sir Robert and Lady Dashwood , I am happy to say , are equally enchanted with the match . " The unconcealable irritation of Lady Hill- ingdon at finding herself thus distanced on the matrimonial course PEERS AND PARVENUS . 109.
... Sir Robert and Lady Dashwood , I am happy to say , are equally enchanted with the match . " The unconcealable irritation of Lady Hill- ingdon at finding herself thus distanced on the matrimonial course PEERS AND PARVENUS . 109.
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acquaintance Admirable Crichton admit afford Agatha ambassadress aunt Morris ball beauty Benedictine Bilston Park BOOK BUE Brighton brother cerning Charlotte Corbet charming cher Clarendon Hill Cleveland Clutterbuck companion countenance Countess von Adlerberg cousin Crescentia cried Dashwood daugh daughters dear Dick Towler Duke of Attleborough English Englishman eyes fair Fairford youth fancy father favour fêtes fortune Frà George Joddrell girls Glebestone hand heart heiress Herbert Davenport Hindon Manor honour hope Italy Jane Cleve Jervis Cleve Joddrell's Julia Lady Hill Lady Hillingdon Lady Ursula letters London look Lord John Howard Lucy madam ment Miss Hecksworth Miss Joddrells Monsieur Gervais morning mother Naples never object OVERDUE FEE party person Philip Fairfax Pietracatella pleasure Portici Portland place Prince Lobanoff protégé rejoined replied Cleve scarcely scholar sister smile society St Petersburg suppose sure thing tion Venice woman Wrexhill young
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Seite 54 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 194 - Love is an offering of the whole heart, Madam, A sacrifice of all that poor life hath ; And he who gives his ' all,' — whate'er that be, Gives greatly, — and deserveth no one's scorn ! 131.
Seite 133 - My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne, And all the day an unaccustom'd spirit Raises me from the ground with cheerful thoughts, — burst simultaneously from the lips of the three girls.
Seite 267 - But now our joys are fled On winter blasts awa; Yet maiden May, in rich array, Again shall bring them a'. But my white pow, nae kindly thowe Shall melt the snaws of age ; My trunk of eild, but buss or bield, Sinks in Time's wint'ry rage. Oh, age has weary days, And nights o' sleepless pain; Thou golden time o' youthful prime, Why com'st thou not again?
Seite 42 - to whom much is given, from him much shall be required.' " This letter, far from serving the purpose for which it was intended, of rousing...