La Belle Assemblée, Հատոր 18J. Bell, 1818 |
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body with whom I live , judge me after their own situation , never after mine , and expect , that a man who has nothing , should live as if he had six thousand livres a year , and leisure besides . say ; she has been kind enough to ...
body with whom I live , judge me after their own situation , never after mine , and expect , that a man who has nothing , should live as if he had six thousand livres a year , and leisure besides . say ; she has been kind enough to ...
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... never should her gates was at the sight of this likeness , and on open to receive any male intruder , her bro - hearing the encomiums lavished by his ther alone excepted . sister on the original , that our young sol- dier had become so ...
... never should her gates was at the sight of this likeness , and on open to receive any male intruder , her bro - hearing the encomiums lavished by his ther alone excepted . sister on the original , that our young sol- dier had become so ...
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... never once mentioned the Chevalier's name in her correspondence with the Baroness ; whilst , on the other hand , she constantly spoke of Mathilda , of whom she would give such a whimsical description , that it was next to an ...
... never once mentioned the Chevalier's name in her correspondence with the Baroness ; whilst , on the other hand , she constantly spoke of Mathilda , of whom she would give such a whimsical description , that it was next to an ...
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... never without some fair nymph singing to it . it is that the gallants and ladies of the court take the air and divert themselves , as with us in Hyde Park , the circle being capable of containing a hundred coaches to turn commodiously ...
... never without some fair nymph singing to it . it is that the gallants and ladies of the court take the air and divert themselves , as with us in Hyde Park , the circle being capable of containing a hundred coaches to turn commodiously ...
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... never which he certainly had not ; the women , was a christening , marriage , or funeral , who , young or old , beautiful or ugly , are where he did not figure away as a god- all fond of flattery , seeing themselves ne- father , witness ...
... never which he certainly had not ; the women , was a christening , marriage , or funeral , who , young or old , beautiful or ugly , are where he did not figure away as a god- all fond of flattery , seeing themselves ne- father , witness ...
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Էջ 56 - Come, my friends, we will drink together. It is now forty years since I worked like you, at this Press, as a journeyman Printer.
Էջ 58 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Էջ 319 - I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.
Էջ 58 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...