London Society, Volume 16; Volume 18James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1870 - English literature |
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... called the plongeon , the dip or diving , that is , the disappearance of a new - married man , does not ex- ceed six months on an average . Two preparatory months , for paying his court , and four months of decent and proper convenance ...
... called the plongeon , the dip or diving , that is , the disappearance of a new - married man , does not ex- ceed six months on an average . Two preparatory months , for paying his court , and four months of decent and proper convenance ...
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... called vin des maitres , company wine , but greatly prefer the vin pour les gens , servants ' wine , because it is rough and ' scratches ' their palate . The other , according to their notions , is mere lap for invalids , with no ...
... called vin des maitres , company wine , but greatly prefer the vin pour les gens , servants ' wine , because it is rough and ' scratches ' their palate . The other , according to their notions , is mere lap for invalids , with no ...
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... called " The Honeymoon on the Alps . " ' And so on : for this is the sort of cackle you may hear ad infinitum in the rooms at Burlington House . Talking about honeymoons , a visit to the Academy always brings one into contact with a ...
... called " The Honeymoon on the Alps . " ' And so on : for this is the sort of cackle you may hear ad infinitum in the rooms at Burlington House . Talking about honeymoons , a visit to the Academy always brings one into contact with a ...
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... called the flirta- tion room . Its seclusion is con- venient , and there is a seductive influence in its quiet . When mamma cannot make out what has become of two certain members of her party , she is quite sure to be able eventually to ...
... called the flirta- tion room . Its seclusion is con- venient , and there is a seductive influence in its quiet . When mamma cannot make out what has become of two certain members of her party , she is quite sure to be able eventually to ...
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... called on me one morning , and asked me if I would join a new cricket- club which was being formed in the neighbourhood . The club was to have some peculiar features . It was to consist entirely of unmarried men , because married men ...
... called on me one morning , and asked me if I would join a new cricket- club which was being formed in the neighbourhood . The club was to have some peculiar features . It was to consist entirely of unmarried men , because married men ...
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Page 80 - ... that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes. I have seen a fan so very angry, that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing, that I have been glad for the lady's sake the lover was at a sufficient distance from it.
Page 80 - There is an infinite variety of motions to be made use of in the flutter of a fan. There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter.
Page 93 - tis a quiet spirit-healing nook! Which all, methinks, would love; but chiefly he, The humble man, who, in his youthful years, Knew just so much of folly, as had made His early manhood more securely wise! Here he might lie on fern or...
Page 20 - But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that to the Registry books. A man is as old as he's feeling ; A woman, as old as she looks...
Page 478 - Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of their garments, the waving of the robes of those whose faces see God.
Page 93 - While from the singing lark (that sings unseen The minstrelsy that solitude loves best) , And from the sun, and from the breezy air, Sweet influences trembled o'er his frame; And he, with many feelings, many thoughts, Made up a meditative joy, and found Religious meanings in the forms of Nature!
Page 80 - Fans, each of them shakes her fan at me with a smile, then gives her right-hand woman a tap upon the shoulder, then presses her lips with the extremity of her fan, then lets her arms fall in an easy motion, and stands in readiness to receive the next word of command.
Page 555 - Not only all common Speech, but Science, Poetry ' itself is no other, if thou consider it, than a right
Page 273 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Page 271 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of...