The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic, and Lady's Magazine and Museum: A Family Journal of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashion, Etc, Volume 18Dobbs & Company, 1841 - English literature |
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... fair Maria was seized with illness of a most alarming nature . Her mother , frantic with grief and apprehension , was then repeatedly heard to declare , that she had always be- lieved that her beloved girl was doomed to an early death ...
... fair Maria was seized with illness of a most alarming nature . Her mother , frantic with grief and apprehension , was then repeatedly heard to declare , that she had always be- lieved that her beloved girl was doomed to an early death ...
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... fair hand she held in her own , told her that hers would be a checkered life , that there were great mis- fortunes , but likewise great prosperity in store for her ; that she would be one day at nearly the lowest ebb of human misery ...
... fair hand she held in her own , told her that hers would be a checkered life , that there were great mis- fortunes , but likewise great prosperity in store for her ; that she would be one day at nearly the lowest ebb of human misery ...
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... fair partner of Louis the sixteenth had in great measure done away with the imposing ceremonies attendant upon court presentations , but still there remained ancient forms of state that could by no means be infringed upon , and of these ...
... fair partner of Louis the sixteenth had in great measure done away with the imposing ceremonies attendant upon court presentations , but still there remained ancient forms of state that could by no means be infringed upon , and of these ...
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... fair means , promising her the immense sum of 300,000 francs and a passport for Spain if she would only conform to his wishes and those of his associates : the alternative to this compliance was death . Madame de Fontenay , for she was ...
... fair means , promising her the immense sum of 300,000 francs and a passport for Spain if she would only conform to his wishes and those of his associates : the alternative to this compliance was death . Madame de Fontenay , for she was ...
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... fair damsel , ' mine host ' now considered himself in duty bound to enquire into particulars , and demanded what were Lucien's intentions respecting his daughter . Upon the declaration of the young man that they were honorable , both ...
... fair damsel , ' mine host ' now considered himself in duty bound to enquire into particulars , and demanded what were Lucien's intentions respecting his daughter . Upon the declaration of the young man that they were honorable , both ...
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