London Characters: Or, Fashions and Customs, of the Present Century, Том 1booksellers in Bondstreet, 1809 - 3 страници |
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... true honest Man - refined Economy - Avarice chills the Heart - Conclusion . LADY LAURA PEMBERTON 179 Her Character - she appears a dashing Woman -her Husband goes Abroad - a rigid Disciple of the Old School - she repairs to a Cottage ...
... true honest Man - refined Economy - Avarice chills the Heart - Conclusion . LADY LAURA PEMBERTON 179 Her Character - she appears a dashing Woman -her Husband goes Abroad - a rigid Disciple of the Old School - she repairs to a Cottage ...
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... true imi- tators of the great , if they do but adopt their vices * . ” * This observation of the Duchess of Pyrmont is but too true ; and there is , in those sorts of under- matches , a hidden tendency to that levelling system which ...
... true imi- tators of the great , if they do but adopt their vices * . ” * This observation of the Duchess of Pyrmont is but too true ; and there is , in those sorts of under- matches , a hidden tendency to that levelling system which ...
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... true . driving style , like the French postillions he has heard on the continent , ( but which here always gives the idea of a carman , ) he stood , taking up the whole door - way of Madame Lanchestre's , the milliner . You know his ...
... true . driving style , like the French postillions he has heard on the continent , ( but which here always gives the idea of a carman , ) he stood , taking up the whole door - way of Madame Lanchestre's , the milliner . You know his ...
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... true zest of fashion , scandal , and the spirit of the times ! " " Excellent ! ' said the Duchess ; " This will do ; our country amusements are ex- cessively insipid , owing to the immense distance of that horrid mansion from every ...
... true zest of fashion , scandal , and the spirit of the times ! " " Excellent ! ' said the Duchess ; " This will do ; our country amusements are ex- cessively insipid , owing to the immense distance of that horrid mansion from every ...
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... true Turkish hue , in point of colour ; and that the Beauties of the Ottoman Empire had a custom of enlarging the orbit of their eyes , by a powder of lead ore , finely ground , and prepared with sweet - oil on a porphyry stone , and ...
... true Turkish hue , in point of colour ; and that the Beauties of the Ottoman Empire had a custom of enlarging the orbit of their eyes , by a powder of lead ore , finely ground , and prepared with sweet - oil on a porphyry stone , and ...
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