Women of Fashion and Representative Women in Letters and Society: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies, כרך 1Tinsley Bros., 1878 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
admirers affection afterwards agreeable amusement Anne beauty believe Berry's Blenheim brilliant Carabosse character charming Churchill Countess Court daughter dear dearest delight desire dressed Duchess of Buckingham Duchess of Marlborough Duchess of Somerset Duke Earl England English eyes father favour favourite feeling give Glorvina grace happy heart honour hope Horace Walpole husband imagine Irish King Lady Marlborough Lady Mary Lady Mary's Lady Morgan letter live London look Lord Lord Houghton lover Madame Madame de Sévigné Madame de Staël manner Masham mind Miss Berry Montagu nature never Owenson passion person pleased pleasure Pope Prince Princess Princess of Wales Queen reader received reign replied royal satire seems sister society spirit Sydney Sydney Owenson taste tell temper thing thought tion took Tory truth vivacity Walpole Whig wife Wild Irish Girl women Wortley write wrote young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 11 - 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...
עמוד 251 - No thought advances, but her eddy brain Whisks it about, and down it goes again. Full sixty years the world has been her trade, The wisest fool much time has ever made. From loveless youth to unrespected age...
עמוד 88 - Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Rufa, whose eye quick-glancing o'er the park, Attracts each light gay meteor of a spark...
עמוד 122 - To say truth, there is no part of the world where our sex is treated with so much contempt as in England. I do not complain of men for having engrossed the government ; in excluding us from all degrees of power, they preserve us from many fatigues, many dangers, and perhaps many crimes.
עמוד 252 - Who breaks with her, provokes revenge from hell, But he's a bolder man who dares be well. Her every turn with violence pursued, Nor more a storm her hate than gratitude : To that each passion turns, or soon or late ; Love, if it makes her yield, must make her hate : Superiors ? death ! and equals ? what a curse ! But an inferior not dependent ? worse.
עמוד 55 - I went to the bagnio about ten o'clock. It was already full of women. It is built of stone, in the shape of a dome, with no windows but in the roof, which gives light enough. There were five of these domes joined together, the outmost being less than the rest, and serving only as a hall, where the portress stood at the door.
עמוד 78 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
עמוד 79 - I must applaud your good nature in supposing that your pastoral lovers (vulgarly called haymakers) would have lived in everlasting joy and harmony, if the lightning had not interrupted their scheme of happiness.
עמוד 253 - Last night, her lord was all that's good and great; A knave this morning, and his will a cheat. Strange ! by the means defeated of the ends, By spirit...
עמוד 29 - ... tis principally my concern to think of the most probable method of making that love eternal. You object against living in London; I am not fond of it myself, and readily give it up to you; though I am assured there needs more art to keep a fondness alive in solitude, where it generally preys upon itself. There is one article absolutely necessary— to be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable.