Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story, Volumen2Henry Colburn, 1849 |
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... told him it might be one hundred thousand pounds in her way . She sealed up the register , and left it with Mrs. Amis , in charge , upon her husband's death , to deliver it to Mr. Merrill . This event hap- pened in a few weeks , and the ...
... told him it might be one hundred thousand pounds in her way . She sealed up the register , and left it with Mrs. Amis , in charge , upon her husband's death , to deliver it to Mr. Merrill . This event hap- pened in a few weeks , and the ...
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... told your lord- ship , that he read with me those scenes to which your lordship objected , that he found them collected from general nature , and applicable to none but those , who , through consciousness , were compelled to a self ...
... told your lord- ship , that he read with me those scenes to which your lordship objected , that he found them collected from general nature , and applicable to none but those , who , through consciousness , were compelled to a self ...
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... told her comrogues she had them from her mother , a poor distrest widow woman in the country . And how she met with the great squire Pepper - pint , a mighty rich and great gentleman ; and how she spread her net , and the squire fell ...
... told her comrogues she had them from her mother , a poor distrest widow woman in the country . And how she met with the great squire Pepper - pint , a mighty rich and great gentleman ; and how she spread her net , and the squire fell ...
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... told , but it was fully believed at the time , and has not since been con- tradicted , that some of the more unscrupulous of the Whigs resolved to get rid of the new ambassador . With this view they cast their eyes upon Lord Mohun , who ...
... told , but it was fully believed at the time , and has not since been con- tradicted , that some of the more unscrupulous of the Whigs resolved to get rid of the new ambassador . With this view they cast their eyes upon Lord Mohun , who ...
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... told , that there can be anything pleasant to the eye in the smoke of London ; and yet the Colonel was quite right ; the capital at an early hour is by no means the same pleasant- looking place that it is when every chimney is smoking ...
... told , that there can be anything pleasant to the eye in the smoke of London ; and yet the Colonel was quite right ; the capital at an early hour is by no means the same pleasant- looking place that it is when every chimney is smoking ...
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Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story, Volumen2 Bernard Burke Vista completa - 1849 |
Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story, Volumen2 Bernard Burke Vista completa - 1849 |
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Página 188 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps. And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 401 - So proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must laugh, the master when he sees, A puny insect, shivering at a breeze ! Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around ! The whole, a labour'd quarry above ground.
Página 402 - Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land.
Página 402 - ... and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions.
Página 186 - To render her widowed situation more desolate, she had incurred her father's displeasure by her unfortunate attachment, and was an exile from the paternal roof. But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation, for the Irish are a people of •quick and generous sensibilities.
Página 186 - The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay, — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.
Página 399 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 48 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Página 1 - We must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the most entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose.
Página 398 - Commend me to thy lovely lady, Bear to her this chain of gold; And these bracelets for a token; Grieving that I was so bold: All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me.