Recollections of a Chaperon, Volum 2Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. (successor to Henry Colburn.), 1833 |
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Pàgina 16
... spirit when we get low in the world , and how easy it is to go on from bad to worse ! The next night I hoped to get to my husband . They told me to keep along the banks of a great river on my left , where there was something of a path ...
... spirit when we get low in the world , and how easy it is to go on from bad to worse ! The next night I hoped to get to my husband . They told me to keep along the banks of a great river on my left , where there was something of a path ...
Pàgina 30
... spirit of darkness , that she might rejoin her mur- dered lover's ghost in another , but not a better , world . Miss Pennefeather's nose was small , and somewhat retroussé ; her eyes were large , black , and round ( they were her beauty ) ...
... spirit of darkness , that she might rejoin her mur- dered lover's ghost in another , but not a better , world . Miss Pennefeather's nose was small , and somewhat retroussé ; her eyes were large , black , and round ( they were her beauty ) ...
Pàgina 34
... spirits . - I mean to be so quiet and den as soon as the people begin to talk to me , I forge really believe Lord Montreville is very good - natured , not think the worse of me . " " La ! miss , I'm sure your mamma can't think the harm ...
... spirits . - I mean to be so quiet and den as soon as the people begin to talk to me , I forge really believe Lord Montreville is very good - natured , not think the worse of me . " " La ! miss , I'm sure your mamma can't think the harm ...
Pàgina 51
... spirits were somewhat de- pressed ; but at others , she was dazzled and excited by the beautiful presents that arrived every day . The diamonds , the Montreville diamonds , which were now hers . The large pearl , which had belonged to ...
... spirits were somewhat de- pressed ; but at others , she was dazzled and excited by the beautiful presents that arrived every day . The diamonds , the Montreville diamonds , which were now hers . The large pearl , which had belonged to ...
Pàgina 58
... spirits running away with her . She watched narrowly every thing that was said after dinner : and upon Major Smith asking her if she was fond of riding , she cast a glance towards Lord Montreville , to see if that was near enough the ...
... spirits running away with her . She watched narrowly every thing that was said after dinner : and upon Major Smith asking her if she was fond of riding , she cast a glance towards Lord Montreville , to see if that was near enough the ...
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Recollections of a Chaperon, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) Arabella Jane Sullivan Previsualització no disponible - 2015 |
Recollections of a Chaperon, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) Arabella Jane Sullivan Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 101 - So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
Pàgina 106 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Pàgina 119 - When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest depravations of human nature, by giving wrong...
Pàgina 149 - Concerning the Materials of seditions. It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For, if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Pàgina 120 - God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged: but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest depravations of human nature, by giving wrong ambitions and false ideas of what is good and laudable ; and should therefore be exploded by all governments, and driven out as the bane and plague of human society.
Pàgina 109 - When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find, He most of all doth bathe in bliss that hath a quiet mind; And, clear from worldly cares, to deem can be content The sweetest time in all his life in thinking to be spent. The body subject is to fickle fortune's power, And to a million of mishaps is casual every hour. And death in time doth change it to a clod of clay...