Had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket! Littell's Living Age - Seite 441855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1855 - 626 Seiten
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried ' Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they... | |
| 1855 - 622 Seiten
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried ' Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried " Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they... | |
| 1855 - 624 Seiten
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried ' Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...shudder as they read ; but we question if the diabolical reverse and coldblooded wickedness of an Italian woman ever invented much more deadly trifles than... | |
| 1856 - 778 Seiten
...made sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried " Pure death in an ear-ring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some of these articles of bonbonnerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they... | |
| Andrew Wynter - 1860 - 554 Seiten
...sweetmeats, or trinkets, in which death lurked in the most engaging manner ; she carried — " Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount,...on the largest scale. We select from some ,of these articles of bonbonerie the following feast, which we set before doting mothers, in order that they... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 878 Seiten
...I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, Such a wild crowd of invisible pleasures ! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket 1 The sense of possessing such an irresponsible power would no doubt be intoxicating to some people,... | |
| Tom Hood - 1867 - 310 Seiten
...been fascinating work in the old days to be a com pounder of poisons — to be able to enshrine Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket — to make such exquisite drugs that their mere beauty disarmed suspicion — to handle little bright-hued... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1868 - 316 Seiten
...a species of Brinvilliers, who would have rejoiced to carry, morally not actually, of course, Pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket. She was perfectly delighted at the idea of strangling love with a cambric pockethandkerchief — garrotting,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 Seiten
...I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures ! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket ! VI. Soon, at the King's, a mere lozenge to give And Pauline should have just thirty minutes to live... | |
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