Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-mondeJ. Bell, 1832 - Women |
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... passing in my mind , and with an air at once refined and familiar , by which I intended to indicate both the genius and the gentleman , I was about to open a conversation with the fair florist by likening myself to the flowers she had ...
... passing in my mind , and with an air at once refined and familiar , by which I intended to indicate both the genius and the gentleman , I was about to open a conversation with the fair florist by likening myself to the flowers she had ...
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... passed away , Alike from banquet - hall and battle - fray , Leaving memorials for the thoughtful heart , Mournful as music heard when friends depart . He was a King , of whom the record brief Is told of fated power and fated grief . And ...
... passed away , Alike from banquet - hall and battle - fray , Leaving memorials for the thoughtful heart , Mournful as music heard when friends depart . He was a King , of whom the record brief Is told of fated power and fated grief . And ...
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... passed since their union . " Nature ! " echoed the lady , " would you metamorphose me into a red - armed milk - maid ? feed me upon blackberries and buttermilk ? send me to tend kine ? watch The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea ...
... passed since their union . " Nature ! " echoed the lady , " would you metamorphose me into a red - armed milk - maid ? feed me upon blackberries and buttermilk ? send me to tend kine ? watch The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea ...
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... passed the pier - glass , she paused for a moment to adjust a ringlet , pulled the blond trimming of her " bon- net " a little more to the left , and saunter- ed out of the room , with the most pro- " Enough , enough , Saville ...
... passed the pier - glass , she paused for a moment to adjust a ringlet , pulled the blond trimming of her " bon- net " a little more to the left , and saunter- ed out of the room , with the most pro- " Enough , enough , Saville ...
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... passed off delightfully . Mr. Greythorn was a man not of the new , but the old world ; and could manage to make himself most entertaining , particularly when he had any object to attain by being so . Mrs. Clarence had not many moments ...
... passed off delightfully . Mr. Greythorn was a man not of the new , but the old world ; and could manage to make himself most entertaining , particularly when he had any object to attain by being so . Mrs. Clarence had not many moments ...
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Page 42 - EVEN is come ; and from the dark Park, hark, The signal of the setting sun — one gun ! And six is sounding from the chime, prime time To go and see the Drury-Lane Dane slain, — Or hear Othello's jealous doubt spout out, — Or Macbeth raving at that shade-made blade, Denying to his frantic clutch much touch...
Page 270 - Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 271 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 161 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Page 161 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 270 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Page 269 - The love that is so chaste and dignified in Portia — so airy-delicate, and fearless in Miranda — so sweetly confiding in Perdita— so playfully fond in Rosalind — so constant in Imogen — so devoted in Desdemona — so fervent in Helen — so tender in Viola, — is each and all of these in Juliet.
Page 246 - If pursued, they made marches of extraordinary length (sometimes upwards of sixty miles) by roads almost impracticable for regular troops. If overtaken, they dispersed, and reassembled at an appointed rendezvous; if followed to the country from which they issued, they broke into small parties. Their wealth, their booty and their families, were scattered over a wide region, in which they found protection amid the mountains, and in the fastnesses belonging to themselves...
Page 43 - THE gentle reader is acquainted that these are, in all probability, the last tales which it will be the lot of the Author to submit to the public. He is now on the eve of visiting foreign parts ; a ship of war is commissioned by its Eoyal Master to carry the. Author of Waverley...
Page 269 - Shakspeare's women, being essentially women, either love or have loved, or are capable of loving ; but Juliet is love itself. The passion is her state of being, and out of it she has no existence. It is the soul within her soul ; the pulse within her heart ; the life-blood along her veins, " blending with every atom of her frame.