The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 40-41Joseph Rogerson |
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... Marie Antoinette , and with this conviction aided him with his support - and many say his purse . During the imprisonment of M. de Richemont , at Sainte Pelagie , the carriage of the Duc might be seen waiting for hours at the prison ...
... Marie Antoinette , and with this conviction aided him with his support - and many say his purse . During the imprisonment of M. de Richemont , at Sainte Pelagie , the carriage of the Duc might be seen waiting for hours at the prison ...
Page 46
... Marie Amelie should be received at Seville as she is merely coquetting with them again . her own mother would be received ; the ap- It is quite certain that she can never hope for partement prepared for her was filled with the same ...
... Marie Amelie should be received at Seville as she is merely coquetting with them again . her own mother would be received ; the ap- It is quite certain that she can never hope for partement prepared for her was filled with the same ...
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... Marie's part , and wouldn't carve unless she sat opposite to him . Did you ever hear any- thing so ridiculous ? " " High life below stairs , ' certainly , " said Mrs. West . " Isn't Mrs. Cushing that very fashion- able lady who called ...
... Marie's part , and wouldn't carve unless she sat opposite to him . Did you ever hear any- thing so ridiculous ? " " High life below stairs , ' certainly , " said Mrs. West . " Isn't Mrs. Cushing that very fashion- able lady who called ...
Page 158
... as historical documents we may consider them as worthless . I can easily prove this , in citing from beginning to end that of which I am the subject . I am not called Marie , I was not born in 1805 , 158 Gossip from Paris .
... as historical documents we may consider them as worthless . I can easily prove this , in citing from beginning to end that of which I am the subject . I am not called Marie , I was not born in 1805 , 158 Gossip from Paris .
Page 159
... Marie , I was not born in 1805 , but in 1804. My grandmother never was a l'Abbaye aux Bois ; my father was not a colonel ; my grandmother esteemed l'Evangile far more highly than the Contrat Social . At the age of fifteen , I did not ...
... Marie , I was not born in 1805 , but in 1804. My grandmother never was a l'Abbaye aux Bois ; my father was not a colonel ; my grandmother esteemed l'Evangile far more highly than the Contrat Social . At the age of fifteen , I did not ...
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Page 81 - I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man. Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard ! Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow ; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts ; Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset ; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock.
Page 137 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 81 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 88 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 90 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Page 81 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange : Unlifted was the clinking latch ; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Page 54 - I shall say but very short prayers, and then thrust out my hands' - as the sign to strike. He put his hair up, under a white satin cap which the bishop had carried, and said, 'I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side.
Page 133 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, 28 If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.
Page 9 - Bra. Look to her, Moor ; have a quick eye to see ; She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Page 55 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun, Faint from the west, emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep-hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.