The Story of Two Noble Lives: Being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Том 1G. Allen, 1893 |
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Страница 227 - COME, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer ! Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast, And the heart and the hand all thy own to the last...
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Страница 378 - Nightingale is to lead them. Her family have consented, and no one is so well fitted as she is to do such work — she has such nerve and skill, and is so gentle and wise and quiet. Even now she is in no bustle or hurry, though so much is on her hands, and such numbers of people volunteer services.
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Страница 208 - Fitzharris had a magnificent dress of green velvet and fur, which would have made a good drawing. I did a number of studies, from which I must try to give some idea of the beauty of the sight. The ball and banquet one could easily have dispensed with, being the same as such like in London, but the procession into the lists, the tilting, the melee, were such beautiful sights as one can never expect to see again.