The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volume 1T. C. Newby, 1855 - 599 páginas |
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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volume 1 Richard Robert Madden Visualização integral - 1855 |
The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volume 1 Richard Robert Madden Visualização integral - 1855 |
The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volume 1 Richard Robert Madden Visualização integral - 1855 |
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abbé abode acquaintance admiration agreeable Alfred D'Orsay amusing appear Bagwell beautiful bien brother Byron C'est celebrated character Charles Clogheen Clonmel Colonel conversation Count D'Orsay Countess of Blessington Craven D'Orsay's daughter death deceased died Dublin Duke Earl of Blessington Edmund Power Edmund Sheehy England estates EUGENE SUE fashion father feelings France French friends Gardiner Genoa gentleman give Gore House Grammont heart honor ington Italy J'ai John Joseph Lonergan kind knew Lady Bless Lady Blessington ladyship letter libel literary living London Lord Blessington Lord Byron Lord Mountjoy lordship M'Carthy Madame marriage married mind Miss Power Monsieur Mountjoy Naples Napoleon nature never observed occasion Paris party person poor present Prince residence Rome salons seemed Sir Thomas Maude Sir William Gell sister society talents taste thing thought tion Tipperary trial Viscount Watson write young
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Página 513 - Service according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland...
Página 154 - A thick heavy mass of jet-black ringlets falls over his left cheek almost to his collarless stock, while on the right temple it is parted and put away with the smooth carefulness of a girl's, and shines most unctuously " With thy incomparable oil, Macassar...
Página 483 - When all was done ; when you had been "received into the congregation of Christ's flock, and signed with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter you should not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, but manfully fight under His banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant to your life's end...
Página 43 - He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained the...
Página 311 - The park was, it seems, used by the late king and nobility for the freshness of the air and the goodly prospect, but it is that which now (besides all other...
Página 132 - For my own part, I have ever gained the most profit and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most : and, when the difficulties have once been . overcome, these are the books which have struck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
Página 310 - And fondly dictate to a faithful Muse The prime distinction of the friend they lose. 'Twas social wit, which, never kindling strife, Blazed in the small, sweet courtesies of life ; Those little sapphires round the diamond shone, Lending soft radiance to the richer stone.
Página 200 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Página 166 - Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come...
Página 533 - In presence of God, and before the French people, represented by the National Assembly, I swear to remain faithful to the Democratic Republic One and Indivisible, and to fulfil all the duties which the Constitution imposes upon me.