Belgravia, Volume 25Willmer & Rogers, 1875 - London (England) |
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... dress ; whose gravest reading was a risqué social article in the Saturday Review , and whose poetry and sentiment were derived from modern French novels . Such women as these Herman had hitherto found ineffably charming ; not good ...
... dress ; whose gravest reading was a risqué social article in the Saturday Review , and whose poetry and sentiment were derived from modern French novels . Such women as these Herman had hitherto found ineffably charming ; not good ...
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... dress is of some palish - gray stuff , of wide sweeping folds . and simplest fashion , altogether regardless of the last puffing , pleat- ing , quilling , flouncing , or gaging ordained by Parisian man- milliners . Her dark - brown hair ...
... dress is of some palish - gray stuff , of wide sweeping folds . and simplest fashion , altogether regardless of the last puffing , pleat- ing , quilling , flouncing , or gaging ordained by Parisian man- milliners . Her dark - brown hair ...
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... dress herself , especially her head , in the kitchen , for that is abominable sluttish ' ( surely Swift must have read this passage ; and do you remember Thackeray's passive allusion to the man - cook who was so fond of his master's ...
... dress herself , especially her head , in the kitchen , for that is abominable sluttish ' ( surely Swift must have read this passage ; and do you remember Thackeray's passive allusion to the man - cook who was so fond of his master's ...
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... dress ; but they roll in the mud to such an extent during their manifestations of delight , that it's quite impossible to pet them as much as they de- serve for being so friendly and forgiving . Jack , the old pony I used to ride when a ...
... dress ; but they roll in the mud to such an extent during their manifestations of delight , that it's quite impossible to pet them as much as they de- serve for being so friendly and forgiving . Jack , the old pony I used to ride when a ...
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... dress . In a word , you are in an intellectual salon . A queer lot , ' says your host under his breath ; but my wife , you know , goes in for this kind of business . " Just at present authors do not rank particularly high in the favour ...
... dress . In a word , you are in an intellectual salon . A queer lot , ' says your host under his breath ; but my wife , you know , goes in for this kind of business . " Just at present authors do not rank particularly high in the favour ...
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Page 48 - Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
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Page 70 - ... Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
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Page 503 - Cuckolds all awry,' 2 the old dance of England. Of the ladies that danced, the Duke of Monmouth's mistress, and my Lady Castlemaine, and a daughter of Sir Harry de Vicke's," were the best. The manner was, when the King dances, all the ladies in the room, and the Queen herself, stand up : and indeed he dances rarely, and much better than the Duke of York.
Page 126 - Remember the old man, and what he was Years after he had heard this heavy news. His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength.
Page 154 - But you will go on working ?' exclaims Editha, with a surprised look ; ' your ambition is not dead ?' His only answer for the moment is a sigh. ' Progress is a grand word,' he says at last. ' but how few they are who have the elements of progress in their nature ! To go up like a rocket and come down like a stick seems the natural tendency of human genius. Bulwer Lytton, the most varied genius since Shakespeare, is the only man I can think of at this moment whose power was always growing.
Page 65 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small. Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all.
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Page 504 - So in our court in Queen Elizabeth's time gravity and state were kept up. In King James's time things were pretty well. But in King Charles's time there has been nothing but Trenchmore and the cushion dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite cum toite.