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the ball , lightly flung among them , “ Last year , - on the day that he they thought
within themselves how spoke in terms of admiration so much more sparkling the
financier ' s merited of the lady whom M . Du pretty , lively daughter was than ...
the ball , lightly flung among them , “ Last year , - on the day that he they thought
within themselves how spoke in terms of admiration so much more sparkling the
financier ' s merited of the lady whom M . Du pretty , lively daughter was than ...
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You talk as if the Emwine together after the ladies retire . peror had an interest
apart from So when the signal was given all the nation . I tell you that he has the
guests adjourned to the salon ; not a corner of his heart — not even and Alain ...
You talk as if the Emwine together after the ladies retire . peror had an interest
apart from So when the signal was given all the nation . I tell you that he has the
guests adjourned to the salon ; not a corner of his heart — not even and Alain ...
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The early prime of imperial loveliness . celebrated Lady Townsend - fortuEarth
has not anything to show nate in another string to her bowmore fair to the painter
or the poet wit succeeding to beauty - expressed than the brilliant glorified youth
...
The early prime of imperial loveliness . celebrated Lady Townsend - fortuEarth
has not anything to show nate in another string to her bowmore fair to the painter
or the poet wit succeeding to beauty - expressed than the brilliant glorified youth
...
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In society of ladies , addressimperious lover , and I believe was ing them in
graceful persiflage , glad she had not refused him the thought is still uppermost .
To point blank , for they were married Lady Hervey he describes the old last
Thursday ...
In society of ladies , addressimperious lover , and I believe was ing them in
graceful persiflage , glad she had not refused him the thought is still uppermost .
To point blank , for they were married Lady Hervey he describes the old last
Thursday ...
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Ex - lower classes who are driven to it cept Lady Anne , and by courtesy on pain
of want or loss of selfLady Mary , we were none of us respect ; and perhaps it is in
the young enough for a pastoral . These middle class especially that it acts ...
Ex - lower classes who are driven to it cept Lady Anne , and by courtesy on pain
of want or loss of selfLady Mary , we were none of us respect ; and perhaps it is in
the young enough for a pastoral . These middle class especially that it acts ...
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Page 604 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Page 259 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 604 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Page 271 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Page 604 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Page 345 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Page 73 - Even be it so ; yet still among your tribe, Our daily world's true Worldlings, rank not me ! Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced ; partly at their feet, And part far from them : sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes, He is a slave; the meanest we can meet!
Page 604 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Page 78 - My resolutions of growing old and staid are admirable: I wake with a sober plan, and intend to pass the day with my friends — then comes the Duke of Richmond...
Page 357 - The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty.