The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... to proceed in doubly slow time this evening , they arrived at the theatre just as the curtain was rising . Agnes could scarcely repress her delight as she first caught a glimpse of the stage from the private - box 12 THE ROUÉ .
... to proceed in doubly slow time this evening , they arrived at the theatre just as the curtain was rising . Agnes could scarcely repress her delight as she first caught a glimpse of the stage from the private - box 12 THE ROUÉ .
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... arrive in which she might be an impediment to the fortune or exertions of Augustus . On the other hand , Lady Mary sent for Clifton , and repre- sented to him the injustice of his preventing the establishment of Agnes , while there was ...
... arrive in which she might be an impediment to the fortune or exertions of Augustus . On the other hand , Lady Mary sent for Clifton , and repre- sented to him the injustice of his preventing the establishment of Agnes , while there was ...
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... arrived , ac- companied by a perfumed note of compliment and ceremony . From these she withdrew her eyes , and they fell upon a superb dress of white satin , trimmed with lace from the looms of Mecklin and Brussels , and ornamented ...
... arrived , ac- companied by a perfumed note of compliment and ceremony . From these she withdrew her eyes , and they fell upon a superb dress of white satin , trimmed with lace from the looms of Mecklin and Brussels , and ornamented ...
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... was decorating her for her wedding . Carriage after carriage arrived , and set down the invited guests at Lady Mary Dornton's ; all was hurry and bustle and congratulation ; and the formal Mr. Fleming was gratified THE ROUÉ . 31.
... was decorating her for her wedding . Carriage after carriage arrived , and set down the invited guests at Lady Mary Dornton's ; all was hurry and bustle and congratulation ; and the formal Mr. Fleming was gratified THE ROUÉ . 31.
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... arrival , they found cards were just issued for a juvenile ball to be given to the little scions of the fashionable elite at Brighton . It would not do for the Flemings to be left out their names were therefore immediately inserted ...
... arrival , they found cards were just issued for a juvenile ball to be given to the little scions of the fashionable elite at Brighton . It would not do for the Flemings to be left out their names were therefore immediately inserted ...
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Page 53 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 234 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 231 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 156 - I render you ; Only, this one : — Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see.
Page 72 - Which come, in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 223 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.
Page 212 - To charm me with thy softness : 'tis in vain : Thou can'st no more betray, nor I be ruin'd. The hours of folly, and of fond delight, Are wasted all, and fled ; those that remain Are doom'd to weeping, anguish, and repentance.
Page 226 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 84 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII She knew the Latin — that is, 'the Lord's prayer...
Page 241 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...