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... bring Home a Portrait of Rigaud IX . The Original of the Portrait comes to England X. We entertain a very Distinguished Guest at Kensington XI . Our Guest quits us as not being Hospitable enough XII . A great Scheme , and who Balked it ...
... bring Home a Portrait of Rigaud IX . The Original of the Portrait comes to England X. We entertain a very Distinguished Guest at Kensington XI . Our Guest quits us as not being Hospitable enough XII . A great Scheme , and who Balked it ...
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... bring most persons who came near her , Lady Castlewood could command her husband's obedience , and so broke up her establishment at London ; she had removed . from Lincoln's - Inn - Fields to Chelsey , to a pretty new house she bought ...
... bring most persons who came near her , Lady Castlewood could command her husband's obedience , and so broke up her establishment at London ; she had removed . from Lincoln's - Inn - Fields to Chelsey , to a pretty new house she bought ...
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... bringing her lord after her , scaring the country folks with the splendor of her diamonds , which she always wore in public . They said she wore them in private , too , and slept with them round her neck ; though the writer can pledge ...
... bringing her lord after her , scaring the country folks with the splendor of her diamonds , which she always wore in public . They said she wore them in private , too , and slept with them round her neck ; though the writer can pledge ...
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... bring enough money to the Lord Castlewood to restore this ruined part of his house ; where were the morning parlors , above them the long music - gallery , and before which stretched the garden - terrace , where , however , the flowers ...
... bring enough money to the Lord Castlewood to restore this ruined part of his house ; where were the morning parlors , above them the long music - gallery , and before which stretched the garden - terrace , where , however , the flowers ...
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... bringing her scented water and the silver basin after dinner- sitting on her car- riage - step on state occasions , or on public days introducing her company to her . This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry , of whom there were a pretty ...
... bringing her scented water and the silver basin after dinner- sitting on her car- riage - step on state occasions , or on public days introducing her company to her . This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry , of whom there were a pretty ...
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Page 207 - Our duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon, as at the door of a drawingroom. Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, had he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret, or remorse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation of thought, as he performed the very meanest action of which a man is capable ; told a lie, or cheated a fond woman, or robbed a poor beggar of a half-penny with a like awful serenity and equal capacity of the highest...
Page 2 - I am for having her rise up off her knees, and take a natural posture : not to be for ever performing cringes and congees like a courtchamberlain, and shuffling backwards out of doors in the presence of the sovereign. In a word, I would have History familiar rather than heroic : and think that Mr.
Page 186 - I thought, yes, like them that dream — them that dream. And then it went, - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy ; and he that goeth forth and...
Page 193 - ... inflame him ; to make him even forget ; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him ; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
Page 208 - ... yet those of the army, who knew him best and had suffered most from him, admired him most of all: and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.
Page 207 - His qualities were pretty well known in the army, where there were parties of all politics, and of plenty of shrewdness and wit; but there existed such a perfect confidence in him, as the first captain of the world, and such a faith and admiration in his prodigious genius and fortune, that the very men whom he notoriously cheated of their pay, the chiefs whom he used and...
Page 246 - Lord's as the heaven is ; we are alike his creatures here aud yonder. I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way, like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again. Silent receptacle of death ; tranquil depth of calm, Out of reach of tempest and trouble ! I felt as one who had been walking below the sea, and treading amidst the bones of shipwrecks.