The Roué ...Collins & Hannay, 1828 |
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Página 196
... Villars , was wont to call him the " most impudent man alive , with the most modest demeanour in the world ; " and often said , that he envied him more for this appearance of modesty , than for any other of the many high qualifications ...
... Villars , was wont to call him the " most impudent man alive , with the most modest demeanour in the world ; " and often said , that he envied him more for this appearance of modesty , than for any other of the many high qualifications ...
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... Changed , Leslie ! not a jot ; you and Villars will find me just the same fellow you did in Naples ( another visit from La Tour's shoulders to his head ) , ready to follow where you and he will lead - as I have often done 204 THE ROUÉ .
... Changed , Leslie ! not a jot ; you and Villars will find me just the same fellow you did in Naples ( another visit from La Tour's shoulders to his head ) , ready to follow where you and he will lead - as I have often done 204 THE ROUÉ .
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... Villars had been his school - fellow at Eton , his chum at Christchurch , his companion in all his Sybaritian intrigues of London and the Continent . Reading the same books , form- ing themselves upon the same models , they made all ...
... Villars had been his school - fellow at Eton , his chum at Christchurch , his companion in all his Sybaritian intrigues of London and the Continent . Reading the same books , form- ing themselves upon the same models , they made all ...
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... VILLARS . Talk not to me , Fred , of your olive - coloured ladies of Spain -your dark - eyed women of Tuscany - nor of your conver- sational and piquant demoiselles of France , for I am more than ever confirmed in my theory , that ...
... VILLARS . Talk not to me , Fred , of your olive - coloured ladies of Spain -your dark - eyed women of Tuscany - nor of your conver- sational and piquant demoiselles of France , for I am more than ever confirmed in my theory , that ...
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... Villars ! had you heard the buzz that went from circle to circle , and from room to room , as the name of Leslie once more echoed through a London staircase ! I verily thought the dancers would have become motionless , and the lights ...
... Villars ! had you heard the buzz that went from circle to circle , and from room to room , as the name of Leslie once more echoed through a London staircase ! I verily thought the dancers would have become motionless , and the lights ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration agitation Agnes agony Amelia anticipations appeared BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty Brighton Calisthenics carriage character circumstances Clifton contemplation conversation countenance cursed D'Oyley dear death delight determined devil door drawing-room dress excited exclaimed eyes fashion favour fear feelings felt female Fleming Fleming's Flounce Fred gave give Grosvenor Square hand happiness Hartley heard heart honour hope husband idea imagination Italy knew Lady Emily Lady Pomeroy LESLIE rushed Leslie's libertine lips lived look Lord Arlington lover Macbeth married ment mind Miss Wheeler mistress morning mother nature never night object once parties passed passion perhaps person pleasure Pomeroy's present pursuit quadrille racter recollection rendered scene seemed sentiments sigh silent Sir Robert Leslie smile society soul spite talent tears thing thought tion Tour trembling Trevor Trevor Hall turned uttered Villars virtue voice Walmer whole wife wish woman women wonder young ladies
Pasajes populares
Página 53 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 234 - And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Página 231 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 156 - I render you ; Only, this one : — Lord Angelo is precise ; Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : Hence shall we see.
Página 72 - Which come, in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, — You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 223 - ... on this head have almost been given up, and the subject generally thought to be a matter of too high and too delicate a nature to admit of any true or intelligible discussion.
Página 212 - To charm me with thy softness : 'tis in vain : Thou can'st no more betray, nor I be ruin'd. The hours of folly, and of fond delight, Are wasted all, and fled ; those that remain Are doom'd to weeping, anguish, and repentance.
Página 226 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Página 84 - Her serious sayings darken'd to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morning dress was dimity, Her evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin, And other stuffs, with which I won't stay puzzling. XIII She knew the Latin — that is, 'the Lord's prayer...
Página 241 - I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please...