Penruddock," and subscribed to a circulating-library to weep over " The Father and Daughter." The severest poetry tolerated by May Fair was that of Hayley, William Spencer, and Samuel Rogers. In short, people had supped full of horrors during the Revolution,... Cecil: Or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb, a Novel - Page 9by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1845 - 398 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1841 - 606 pages
...went to the play to cry at the " Stranger" or " Penruddock," and subscribed to a circulating library to weep over " The Father and Daughter." The severest...business of the devoted beings left for execution.' As Mr Cecil Danby takes care to tell us soon afterwards that he is twenty and a half, and has already... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1841 - 976 pages
...ten in my boots, with a trifling hint of the Piping Faun softening the severity of my Roman nose and finely-chiselled mouth, I should, perhaps, have passed...measures. My languid smile and hazel eyes were the very o 2 thing to settle the business of the devoted beings left for execution. Self-reliance was one of... | |
| 1841 - 610 pages
...went to the play to cry at the " Stranger" or " Penruddock," and subscribed to a circulating library to weep over " The Father and Daughter." The severest...William Spencer, and Samuel Rogers. In short, people had sopped full of horrors during the Revolution, and were now devoted to elegiac measures. My languid... | |
| Clara Helen Whitmore - Authors, English - 1910 - 336 pages
...with this man's impertinence, and they became sworn friends. When Cecil went to London, he found that "people had supped full of horrors, during the Revolution,...business of the devoted beings left for execution." Of course all the women fell desperately in love with him. "I had always a predisposition to womanslaughter,... | |
| Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - English fiction - 1841 - 194 pages
...wcep over " The Father and Danghter." The severest poetry tolerated by Mayfair was that of Hiiyley, William Spencer, and Samuel Rogers. In short, people...Self-reliance was one of the strong points of my character. 1 had always a predisposition to woman-slanghter, with extenuating circumstances ; as well as a stirring... | |
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