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... class , " old women , " was well entitled to be considered a counsellor in all matters relating to court patron- age , such as the whole world could not produce . CHAPTER II . THE GREAT DUCHESS . That face , 18 MAIDS OF HONOUR .
... class , " old women , " was well entitled to be considered a counsellor in all matters relating to court patron- age , such as the whole world could not produce . CHAPTER II . THE GREAT DUCHESS . That face , 18 MAIDS OF HONOUR .
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Robert Folkestone Williams. CHAPTER II . THE GREAT DUCHESS . That face , that form , that dignity , that ease , Those powers of pleasing , with that will to please , By which Lepel , when in her youthful days , Even from the currish Pope ...
Robert Folkestone Williams. CHAPTER II . THE GREAT DUCHESS . That face , that form , that dignity , that ease , Those powers of pleasing , with that will to please , By which Lepel , when in her youthful days , Even from the currish Pope ...
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... Duchess of Marlborough ! " " Madam Lepel , " observed the General in his stateliest manner , as he rose from his seat , " you will be so good as to meet the Duchess in the amber - room , and prepare to find in her Grace the lady of ...
... Duchess of Marlborough ! " " Madam Lepel , " observed the General in his stateliest manner , as he rose from his seat , " you will be so good as to meet the Duchess in the amber - room , and prepare to find in her Grace the lady of ...
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... Duchess as much as the knowledge she had acquired at Minerva House would allow . Acting on this resolution it was impossible for the most perfect of the inmates of that fashionable seat of learning , to have acquitted herself in the ...
... Duchess as much as the knowledge she had acquired at Minerva House would allow . Acting on this resolution it was impossible for the most perfect of the inmates of that fashionable seat of learning , to have acquitted herself in the ...
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... Duchess ; and those much ad- mired features awakened in her Grace a whole flood of recollections that had lain dormant long enough to have been forgotten . The intimacy which had existed between the young officer and his influential ...
... Duchess ; and those much ad- mired features awakened in her Grace a whole flood of recollections that had lain dormant long enough to have been forgotten . The intimacy which had existed between the young officer and his influential ...
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acquaintance admiration agreeable amongst amused Anthony Lowther appeared astonishment attention beau beauty Bishop Brigadier Brigadier's daughter Buckingham chair chariot Colonel Argyle companion countenance Court creature cried dear delighted door dress Duchess Duchess of Bolton Duchess of Marlborough Duke of Somerset Duke of Wharton entertained evidently excited exclaimed expression extraordinary extremely eyes fair Fanny Meadows favour favourite feeling felt gallantry gentleman glance Grace hand Handsome Hervey Hanoverian heard heart heroine Jacob Tonson John Coachman Kielmansegge King King's Kitty knew laugh looked Lord Hervey Madam Lepel Maid of Honour Majesty manner Marlborough Mary Bellenden Mary Lepel ment Minister mistress Mohocks Molly never observed person Petersham Manor Philip Dormer Pompey possessed pretty Princess Princess of Wales proceeded replied respect rival Royal Highness scarcely Schulenburg seemed shewed Sir Robert soon Sophy sovereign thing thought tion took visitor voice Wales whilst young lady
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Seite 164 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 300 - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here ; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Seite 118 - What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Seite 115 - Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. Oh blind to truth, and God's whole scheme below, Who fancy bliss to vice, to virtue woe! Who sees and follows that great scheme the best, Best knows the blessing, and will most be blest.
Seite 219 - May you enjoy a state of repose in this life, not unlike that sleep of the soul which some have believed is to succeed it, where we lie utterly forgetful of that world from which we are gone, and...
Seite 129 - ... and are ornamental even to a chimney. One would, by the bulk they appear in and the value that is set upon them, think they might be very useful ; but look into a thousand of them, and you will find nothing in them but dust and cobwebs.
Seite 93 - O wonderful creature, a woman of reason ! Never grave out of pride, never gay out of season ! When so easy to guess who this angel should be, Who would think Mrs. Howard ne'er dreamt it was she ?
Seite 75 - ... the idea of gaining some instruction, he never scrupled to go over a passage two or three times, or to take any liberties, or to make any blunders that seemed good to him, without consulting, or in any way warning, the rest of the orchestra ; it was therefore necessary for every member of it, while giving...
Seite 41 - From hence it arises, that they are but in a lower degree what their masters themselves are ; and usually affect an imitation of their manners : and you have in liveries, beaux, fops, and coxcombs, in as high perfection as among people that keep equipages. It is a common humour among the retinue of people of quality, when they are in their revels, that is when they are out of their masters' sight, to assume in a humorous way the names and titles of those whose liveries they wear.
Seite 246 - This sword I think I was telling you of, Mr. Sharper. This sword I'll maintain to be the best divine, anatomist, lawyer, or casuist in Europe; it shall decide a controversy or split a cause SIR JO.