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Pagina xi
... brother , who succeeded to the title , found on applying to the family jeweller that Lady had never returned the diamonds into his custody , nor were they , according to the on dit , ever recovered . About the year 1842 , it was also ...
... brother , who succeeded to the title , found on applying to the family jeweller that Lady had never returned the diamonds into his custody , nor were they , according to the on dit , ever recovered . About the year 1842 , it was also ...
Pagina xvii
... brothers ; and I am under so many obligations to her , and have such a deep respect for her generous and amiable conduct to me in our early friendship , and since , that I would rather go to jail than forfeit my word . She is the only ...
... brothers ; and I am under so many obligations to her , and have such a deep respect for her generous and amiable conduct to me in our early friendship , and since , that I would rather go to jail than forfeit my word . She is the only ...
Pagina xxviii
... Brother's claim - Les Mille Colonnes- Epigrams 282 CHAPTER XXII . Brummell at the Clubs - Watier's - Lord Byron and the Dandies— The ball at the Argyle - Brummell one of the four gentlemen who gave it - The Regent goes to it — The ...
... Brother's claim - Les Mille Colonnes- Epigrams 282 CHAPTER XXII . Brummell at the Clubs - Watier's - Lord Byron and the Dandies— The ball at the Argyle - Brummell one of the four gentlemen who gave it - The Regent goes to it — The ...
Pagina 11
... brother , says , " Recollect the time when we wore white habits , on which the least spot , or a plait ill - placed , would have been a subject of grief , and when our shoes were so tight , that we suffered martyrdom . " Lord Byron ...
... brother , says , " Recollect the time when we wore white habits , on which the least spot , or a plait ill - placed , would have been a subject of grief , and when our shoes were so tight , that we suffered martyrdom . " Lord Byron ...
Pagina 20
... brother was in the navy , and sailed in the Alarm frigate , the first in the service that was coppered ; he was also on board the Centurion , the ship in which Lord Anson circum- navigated the globe . At his brother's death he replaced ...
... brother was in the navy , and sailed in the Alarm frigate , the first in the service that was coppered ; he was also on board the Centurion , the ship in which Lord Anson circum- navigated the globe . At his brother's death he replaced ...
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The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Volume 1 William Jesse Volledige weergave - 1844 |
The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Volume 1 William Jesse Volledige weergave - 1886 |
The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Volume 1 William Jesse Volledige weergave - 1844 |
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acquaintance admiration afterwards alluded amiable amongst amusing anecdote appeared Beau Brummell Beau's beauty Belvoir brother Brum Brummell's Calais called celebrated CHAPTER character Charles Fox Colonel Countess of Bessborough dandy daughter dear death died dine dinner dress Duchess of Devonshire Duke Earl elegant England eyes fair fashion favourite feeling French gave gentleman George Brummell George Selwyn Georgiana give Grace hair heart honour Hunloke intimate Lady Hester ladyship late letter London look Lord Byron Lord Erskine Lord John Lord John Townshend Madame de Staël manner Marquis married morning never night noble o'er Oatlands occasion party perhaps person Pitt poem poetry pounds Prince of Wales probably R. B. SHERIDAN remark replied Royal Highness says scarcely sent Sheridan society spirit Street Sturt talent taste thee thou tion took town verses Watier's wrote young
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Pagina 2 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me.
Pagina 2 - That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed Under a shade on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.
Pagina 2 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Pagina 168 - 1 terzo cerchio serra La rividi più bella e meno altera. Per man mi prese e disse : In questa spera Sarai ancor meco, se '1 desir non erra. I* son colei che ti die' tanta guerra E compie
Pagina 134 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly; at dead of night; The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Pagina 252 - I hail with a smile and a sigh For his beer with an E, and his bier with an I; And still on that day in the hottest of weather, The whole Whitbread family dine all together.
Pagina 212 - Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Pagina 166 - Mais, si sur votre front je puis me voir un jour, La plus humble des fleurs sera la plus superbe.
Pagina 194 - Yes, on my faith, there are bouts-rime's on a buttered muffin, made by Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland ; receipts to make them, by Corydon the venerable, alias George Pitt ; others, very pretty, by Lord Palmerston ; some by Lord Carlisle ; many by Mrs. Miller herself, that have no fault but wanting metre : and immortality promised to her without end or measure.
Pagina 57 - But, though gradually undermined, and insensibly perishing of an atrophy, dress never fell till the era of Jacobinism and of Equality, in 1793 and 1794. It was then that pantaloons, cropped hair, and shoestrings, as well as the total abolition of buckles and ruffles, together with the disuse of hair-powder, characterised the...