The Berry Papers: Being the Correspondence Hitherto Unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852).John Lane, 1914 - 448 էջ |
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... REGENCY . SOME ECCENTRICS AND A WOMAN . BATH UNDER BEAU NASH . BRIGHTON : ITS HISTORY , ITS FOLLIES , and ITS FASHIONS . SOCIETY AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . 1 Mary vid Byrn from . thorgan collection . ING.
... REGENCY . SOME ECCENTRICS AND A WOMAN . BATH UNDER BEAU NASH . BRIGHTON : ITS HISTORY , ITS FOLLIES , and ITS FASHIONS . SOCIETY AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . 1 Mary vid Byrn from . thorgan collection . ING.
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... society of the reign of George III ; had known the Duchess of Queensberry , the patroness of Gay and Prior , the admired young beauty of the Court of Queen Anne . I often thought as I took my kind old friend's hand , how with it I held ...
... society of the reign of George III ; had known the Duchess of Queensberry , the patroness of Gay and Prior , the admired young beauty of the Court of Queen Anne . I often thought as I took my kind old friend's hand , how with it I held ...
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... SOCIETY ( 1804-1816 ) Agnes Berry's engagement to her cousin - It is broken off - Agnes Berry's illness - Miss Kate Perry's appreciation of her - The salon in Curzon Street - Some frequenters - Mary Berry and Sam Rogers- " The Dead ...
... SOCIETY ( 1804-1816 ) Agnes Berry's engagement to her cousin - It is broken off - Agnes Berry's illness - Miss Kate Perry's appreciation of her - The salon in Curzon Street - Some frequenters - Mary Berry and Sam Rogers- " The Dead ...
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... society - Henry Luttrell - A letter from Maria Edgeworth - Letters from Mary to Agnes Berry . 286 SECTION VII THE LATER LIFE OF THE BERRYS ( 1817-1852 ) The Berrys at Genoa - Society in that town - The Duke of Devonshire- Lord John ...
... society - Henry Luttrell - A letter from Maria Edgeworth - Letters from Mary to Agnes Berry . 286 SECTION VII THE LATER LIFE OF THE BERRYS ( 1817-1852 ) The Berrys at Genoa - Society in that town - The Duke of Devonshire- Lord John ...
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... society , little suited the hard , narrow mind of the man on whom his fortunes depended . " 1 It is clear that Robert , who is known to have been a weak man , was unhappily possessed of just those qualities which would alienate a hard ...
... society , little suited the hard , narrow mind of the man on whom his fortunes depended . " 1 It is clear that Robert , who is known to have been a weak man , was unhappily possessed of just those qualities which would alienate a hard ...
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The Berry Papers: Being the Correspondence Hitherto Unpublished of Mary and ... Mary Berry,Lewis Melville,Agnes Berry Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1914 |
The Berry Papers: Being the Correspondence Hitherto Unpublished of Mary and ... Mary Berry Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1914 |
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A. M. Broadley admire affection Agnes Berry anxiety Aylesbury believe Berry's bless you.¹ Calais Castle Howard certainly Charles Cliveden Collection of A. M. comfort Damer to Mary daughter dear Miss Berry death Demy 8vo dine dinner Duchess Duke Duke of Devonshire Earl Elizabeth England expect Farewell father fear feel France French Friday George give happiness hear heart Heaven bless Henry Seymour Conway hope Horace Walpole interest John John Playfair kind Lady Charlotte Lady Hardwicke Lady Sarah Lennox letter Madame Madame de Staël marriage married Mary Berry LONDON melancholy mind Monday morning never night O'Hara Paris present Princess of Wales received regret Richard Westmacott seems sister spirits Strawberry Hill Sunday sure talk tell thing thought to-day to-morrow told town Tuesday Twickenham wish write wrote yesterday
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Էջ 11 - There, Madam, surely this anecdote may take its place in the chapter of local fame. If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our Common, I have made a much more, to me, precious acquisition. It is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry, whom I first saw last winter, and who accidentally took a house here with their father for this season. Their story is singular enough to entertain you. The grandfather, a Scot, had a large estate in his own country, 5,ooo/.
Էջ 12 - Berry has since carried his daughters for two or three years to France and Italy, and they are returned the best-informed and the most perfect creatures I ever saw at their age. They are exceedingly sensible, entirely natural and unaffected, frank, and, being qualified to talk on any subject, nothing is so easy and agreeable as their conversation — not more apposite than their answers and observations.
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Էջ 15 - They are of pleasing figures: Mary, the eldest, sweet, with fine dark eyes, that are very lively when she speaks, with a symmetry of face that is the more interesting from being pale; Agnes, the younger, has an agreeable sensible countenance, hardly to be called handsome, but almost.
Էջ 192 - ... that could constitute present enjoyment. But I looked forward to a future existence which I felt, for the first time, would have called out all the powers of my mind, and all the warmest feelings of my heart...
Էջ 451 - man from God" who saved Europe from the terrible peril of a Turkish dominion ; triumphs in Tunis ; glimpses of life in the luxury loving Italy of the day; then the sad story of the war in the Netherlands, when our hero, victim of an infamous conspiracy, is left to die of a broken heart ; his end hastened by fever, and, maybe, by the
Էջ 289 - She was in her very best manner, and her conversation is certainly uncommonly lively, odd, and clever.* What a pity that she has not a grain of common sense ! not an ounce of ballast to prevent high spirits and a coarse mind allowing her to act indecorously and ridiculously whenever an occasion offers.