A Family ChronicleJ. Murray, 1908 - 344 pages |
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... dinner on the summer evenings . story we were very fond of She used to say that at an This reminds me of the hearing from our granny . early age she came to the conclusion that there was some extraordinary satisfaction in getting drunk ...
... dinner on the summer evenings . story we were very fond of She used to say that at an This reminds me of the hearing from our granny . early age she came to the conclusion that there was some extraordinary satisfaction in getting drunk ...
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... dinner , with my feet upon the fender , and they ( I mean the Greeks ) seem to be prospering without , or rather before , our existence . What may we not expect them to do afterwards ? I shall go to town probably next week to arrange ...
... dinner , with my feet upon the fender , and they ( I mean the Greeks ) seem to be prospering without , or rather before , our existence . What may we not expect them to do afterwards ? I shall go to town probably next week to arrange ...
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... dinner , with all its jellies and whirli- gigs , and the dressed ladies playing at cards , etc. , and scarcely knew how to behave myself . Will you then , my dear Lady Dacre , help me out ? either with some MS . poetry , or give me ...
... dinner , with all its jellies and whirli- gigs , and the dressed ladies playing at cards , etc. , and scarcely knew how to behave myself . Will you then , my dear Lady Dacre , help me out ? either with some MS . poetry , or give me ...
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... dinner , and slept at Dôle . My wig ! what a night I had of it with the bugs ! I got up at last , put on my dressing - gown , and sat in a chair till three o'clock , and then I woke everybody , and we set off at four ... • 1824 ] AT ...
... dinner , and slept at Dôle . My wig ! what a night I had of it with the bugs ! I got up at last , put on my dressing - gown , and sat in a chair till three o'clock , and then I woke everybody , and we set off at four ... • 1824 ] AT ...
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... dinner ! . . . Have just had an excellent dinner , and we are going to walk on the beach to see the carriage on board . At five o'clock to - morrow morning we are to start our- selves , and if all goes well , I hope to have hugged my ...
... dinner ! . . . Have just had an excellent dinner , and we are going to walk on the beach to see the carriage on board . At five o'clock to - morrow morning we are to start our- selves , and if all goes well , I hope to have hugged my ...
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Page 188 - They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow; Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust...
Page 92 - Mais elle était du monde, où les plus belles choses Ont le pire destin ; Et, rose, elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin.
Page 239 - Let there be light" that shall not fail ! So, Angel guarded, may'st thou tread The narrow path which few may find. And at the end look back, nor dread To count the vanished years behind ! And pray that she. whose hand doth trace This heart-warm prayer — when life is past — . May see and know thy blessed face, In God's own glorious light at last...
Page 239 - Knowing no shadow and no change. Light! which of all the lovely shows To our poor world of shadows given, The fervent Prophet-voices chose Alone, as attribute of heaven! At a most solemn pause we stand, From this day forth, for evermore, The weak but loving human hand Must cease to guide thee as of yore. Then, as thro' life thy footsteps stray, And earthly beacons dimly shine, 'Let there be light' upon thy way, And holier guidance far than mine!
Page 140 - Many thanks, dear Lady Dacre, for your beautiful translations in your beautiful book — I read forthwith several beautiful sonnets upon Love, which paint with great fidelity some of the worst symptoms of that terrible disorder, than which none destroys more completely the happiness of common existence, and substitutes for the activity which Life demands a long and sickly dream with moments of pleasure and days of intolerable pain. The Poets are full of false views: they make mankind believe that...
Page 238 - How shall I bless thee ? Human Love Is all too poor in passionate words ! The heart aches with a sense above All language that the lip affords ! Therefore, a symbol shall express My love ; — a thing...
Page 93 - ... la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience, II est mal à propos; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 17 - Ogle, dean of Winchester, the author was related. It was not sufficiently successful to induce its repetition. It was printed in 1815, as produced on the stage, but in Lady Dacre's collected works she restored 'the original catastrophe, and some other parts which had been cut out.
Page 188 - We shall both be a brown infragrant powder in thirty or forty years. Let us contrive to last out for the same time, or nearly the same time.
Page 3 - We reached this place yesterday morning. You will judge of the size of the house, when I tell you there are eleven visitors, and all perfectly well accommodated. The Wilmots live in the greatest magnificence ; but what is a much better thing, they live also rationally and sensibly. On Sunday evening, however, I was a little alarmed ; they were preparing for music (sacred music was the ostensible thing), but before I had time to feel uneasy, Garrick turned round, and said, " Nine, you are a Sunday...