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... beauty had first forged for our susceptible hero . Absorbed in these reflections , the marquis took the way back to his chateau : and now let us account for the appearance of Florimond . Madame de Rossily had given out at Paris , that ...
... beauty had first forged for our susceptible hero . Absorbed in these reflections , the marquis took the way back to his chateau : and now let us account for the appearance of Florimond . Madame de Rossily had given out at Paris , that ...
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... beauty proves not like a Broken Sword . I shall have a country- house at Windsor , where I hope you will join me ; we will certainly make The Devil to Pay , and be in fact and deed The Merry Wives of Wind- sor . Before I can do this , I ...
... beauty proves not like a Broken Sword . I shall have a country- house at Windsor , where I hope you will join me ; we will certainly make The Devil to Pay , and be in fact and deed The Merry Wives of Wind- sor . Before I can do this , I ...
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... beauty to the utmost possible advantage , by the due adjustment of dress to form and feature - an art that has been the boast of the French at least , as the song says , ' from good old Bes- sy's golden days . ' I doubt not , madam ...
... beauty to the utmost possible advantage , by the due adjustment of dress to form and feature - an art that has been the boast of the French at least , as the song says , ' from good old Bes- sy's golden days . ' I doubt not , madam ...
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... beauty of its execution , that the pope had sent for it when he was in Paris , and blessed it ere he returned the sad and holy representation to its distinguished owner . And she na- One of these persons was a mere littéraire de société ...
... beauty of its execution , that the pope had sent for it when he was in Paris , and blessed it ere he returned the sad and holy representation to its distinguished owner . And she na- One of these persons was a mere littéraire de société ...
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... beauty and nature which fascinate us so much in the works of Claude . Landscape , with Market - People.— Gainsborough . This is also a very natural and tion with all those terrific repre - pleasing landscape , very finely co- dom and ...
... beauty and nature which fascinate us so much in the works of Claude . Landscape , with Market - People.— Gainsborough . This is also a very natural and tion with all those terrific repre - pleasing landscape , very finely co- dom and ...
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Side 185 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Side 238 - I, and held a lucrative office in the ' court of wards,' till that singular court was abolished at the time of the restoration. In his own times he was called ' The great Audley,'* an epithet so often abused, and here applied to the creation of enormous wealth. But there are minds of great capacity, concealed by the nature of their pursuits ; and the wealth of AUDLEY may be considered as the cloudy medium through which a bright genius shone, of which, had it been thrown into a nobler sphere of action,...
Side 240 - Hence he considered marriage, with a modern political economist, as very dangerous; bitterly censuring the clergy, whose children, he said, never thrived, and whose widows were left destitute. An apostolical life, according to...
Side 185 - A gem away, that thou hadst sworn Should ever in thy heart be worn. Come, if the love thou hast for me Is pure and fresh as mine for thee, — Fresh as the fountain under ground, When first 'tis by the lapwing found...
Side 280 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Side 91 - ... deformity, Affectation; it will produce the grin, the simper, the stare, the languish, the pout, and innumerable other grimaces, that render folly ridiculous, and change pity to contempt. By...
Side 307 - Foes to light-heart jollity : May no winds careering high Drive the clouds along the sky, But may all nature smile with aspect boon, When in the heavens thou show'st thy face, oh Harvest Moon!
Side 170 - It was dusk, when two squadrons of Prussian cavalry, both of them two deep, passed over me in full trot, lifting me from the ground, and tumbling me about cruelly : the clatter of their approach, and the apprehensions it EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF COLONEL PONSONIJY.
Side 92 - The love of reason and of virtue is mingled with the love of beauty; because this beauty is little more than the emanation of intellectual excellence, which is not an object of corporeal appetite. As it excites a purer passion, it also more forcibly engages to fidelity: every man finds himself more powerfully restrained from giving pain to goodness than to beauty; and every look of a countenance in which they are blended, in which beauty is the expression of goodness, is a silent reproach...
Side 91 - It has been remarked that the predominant passion may generally be discovered in the countenance ; because the muscles by which it is expressed, being almost perpetually contracted, lose their tone, and never totally relax ; so that the expression remains when the passion is suspended ; thus, an angry, a disdainful, a subtle, and a suspicious temper, is displayed in characters that are almost universally understood. It is equally true of the pleasing and the softer passions, that they leave their...