The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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... round of the table ; turning first one cheek , and then the other , to her parents and her aunt , without the possibility of discomposing either the economy of her own ringlets , or , like her sister , disturbing anybody by her ...
... round of the table ; turning first one cheek , and then the other , to her parents and her aunt , without the possibility of discomposing either the economy of her own ringlets , or , like her sister , disturbing anybody by her ...
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... round her shoulders , without any regard to appearance or form ; and she was in the hall and ready to depart , while her sister's maid was still folding a cashmere gracefully on the neck of Amelia , under the superintendence of Lady ...
... round her shoulders , without any regard to appearance or form ; and she was in the hall and ready to depart , while her sister's maid was still folding a cashmere gracefully on the neck of Amelia , under the superintendence of Lady ...
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... round and bestow their admiration and affection upon one who was perhaps looking only with envy upon these qualifications without possessing any of them , and whose only claim to admiration was a title or an estate unencumbered by any ...
... round and bestow their admiration and affection upon one who was perhaps looking only with envy upon these qualifications without possessing any of them , and whose only claim to admiration was a title or an estate unencumbered by any ...
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... round the apartment ; resting first on the humble ornaments , and a pile of sonnets , sent to her by Augustus ; then on the more splendid decorations which glittered proudly in the jewel - case which had been forwarded that evening from ...
... round the apartment ; resting first on the humble ornaments , and a pile of sonnets , sent to her by Augustus ; then on the more splendid decorations which glittered proudly in the jewel - case which had been forwarded that evening from ...
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... round the busy circle by her mother , to account for her agitated appearance . 99 66 The signal was now given for departure , and all the horses ' heads were turned in the direction of St. James's ; the bride- groom's carriage being the ...
... round the busy circle by her mother , to account for her agitated appearance . 99 66 The signal was now given for departure , and all the horses ' heads were turned in the direction of St. James's ; the bride- groom's carriage being the ...
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Popular passages
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...