Fashionable Life: Or, Paris and London, المجلد 1Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1856 |
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acquaintance agreeable amusement Anastasia Annie appeared assuredly aunt Sarah aware backgammon beauty believe bestowed Bois de Boulogne bourg Brix Brixbourg cation certainly cholera Clara Holmwood comfort conscious daughter dear child dear Clarkson decidedly degree dislike doctor Dormont doubt drawing-room earnest enjoyment exclaimed eyes fact fancy father feel felt fortune gentleman girl give greatly guardian handsome happiness heart heiress HENRY COLBURN Henry Hamilton honour hope idea Lady Amelia Wharton ladyship lapwing laughing less listened living look manner marriage marry ment Miss Holmwood monstrance moreover never noble old lady opinion painful Paris perfectly perhaps physician pleasant poor Clara Portman Square position possessed possible pretty nearly reason replied Clara respecting schoolmaster seemed sincerity Sir William Lawrence smile society sort speedily tell tête-à-tête thing thought tone truth tutor uttered wealth Wellby Williamson wish words young lady
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الصفحة 300 - AND CABINETS OF GEORGE THE THIRD, FROM ORIGINAL FAMILY DOCUMENTS. By the DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, KG, &c.
الصفحة 300 - On many parts of this story the documents published by the Duke of Buckingham cast new jets of light, clearing up much secret history. Old stories are confirmed — new traits of character are brought out. In short, many new and pleasant additions are made to our knowledge of those times.'*— Atheneeum.
الصفحة 300 - Borodino; the fire of Moscow; the retreat of Napoleon ; the conquest of Spain ; the surrender of Napoleon ; the return from Elba ,- the Congress of Vienna ; the Hundred Days ; the crowning carnage of Waterloo ; the exile to St. Helena; the return of the Bourbons; the settlement of Europe; the public scandals at the English Court; the popular discontent, and the massacre...
الصفحة 232 - If all people set about carrying out their own arrangements and their own intentions, in as business-like and rational a manner as did the female co-partnership I am describing, there would be much fewer disappointments in life" (1: 242). Knowing their goal, these women worked persistently and cooperatively to achieve it. Their friendly arrangement consisted of four females in different states of life. Lady Amelia is a widow; Annie, her young daughter, is a woman of marriageable age; Aunt Sarah is...
الصفحة 20 - Holmwood was not, nor ever had been, in the habit of talking to ^ the ladies of his family concerning his financial affairs, either private or commercial...
الصفحة 299 - Just published, in 2 vols. 8vo., with Portraits, 30s. bound, MEMOIES OF THE COURT OF THE REGENCY. FROM ORIGINAL FAMILY DOCUMENTS. By the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and CHANDOS, EG " Here are two more goodly volumes on the English Court ; volumes full of new sayings, pictures, anecdotes, and scenes. The Duke of Buckingham travels over nine years of English history. But what years those...