Child-life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women: A Series of Chapters from Female BiographyW. Swann Sonnenschein, 1883 - 350 Seiten |
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... delighted the older members of the brilliant circle , his powers of mimicry infinitely amused the younger . Fanny Burney's keen eye found here a wide field of observation . But that her opportunities of studying human character might be ...
... delighted the older members of the brilliant circle , his powers of mimicry infinitely amused the younger . Fanny Burney's keen eye found here a wide field of observation . But that her opportunities of studying human character might be ...
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... delight , and pronounced it far superior ( Heaven save the mark ! ) to Madame Riccoborie's tales . She recommended it to Dr. Johnson , and when the literary Rhadamanthus had read it , he too declared warmly in its favour . " Why , madam ...
... delight , and pronounced it far superior ( Heaven save the mark ! ) to Madame Riccoborie's tales . She recommended it to Dr. Johnson , and when the literary Rhadamanthus had read it , he too declared warmly in its favour . " Why , madam ...
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... leisure not only to taste of the delights of fame , but thoroughly to enjoy them . There was no risk of her speedy supercession by a new favourite . And now what are we to say of the book 42 CHILD - LIFE OF REMARKABLE WOMEN .
... leisure not only to taste of the delights of fame , but thoroughly to enjoy them . There was no risk of her speedy supercession by a new favourite . And now what are we to say of the book 42 CHILD - LIFE OF REMARKABLE WOMEN .
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... delight ap- pears to be tormenting and ridiculing his sisters ; who , in return , most heartily despise him . " Miss Broughton , the eldest daughter , is by no means ugly ; but looks proud , ill - tempered , and con- ceited . She hates ...
... delight ap- pears to be tormenting and ridiculing his sisters ; who , in return , most heartily despise him . " Miss Broughton , the eldest daughter , is by no means ugly ; but looks proud , ill - tempered , and con- ceited . She hates ...
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... delightful to look back upon the pleasures of these sands , and of the animal and vegetable life which they sustained ; the little close white Scotch roses , the shells , the crabs of every size , from Lilliputian to Brobdignagian ...
... delightful to look back upon the pleasures of these sands , and of the animal and vegetable life which they sustained ; the little close white Scotch roses , the shells , the crabs of every size , from Lilliputian to Brobdignagian ...
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Seite 134 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 187 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At ev'ry word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that...
Seite 135 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 159 - Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Seite 166 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the...
Seite 144 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I...
Seite 133 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 59 - Our Fellows, July, 1827; Islanders, December, 1827. These are our three great plays, that are not kept secret. Emily's and my best plays were established the ist of December, 1827; the 'others March, 1828. Best plays mean secret plays; they are very nice ones. All our plays are very strange ones. Their nature I need not write on paper, for I think I shall always remember them. The Young Men's...
Seite 306 - Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Seite 59 - Leeds; when Papa came home it was night, and we were in bed, so next morning Branwell came to our door with a box of soldiers. Emily and I jumped out of bed, and I snatched up one and exclaimed, 'This is the Duke of Wellington! This shall be the Duke!