31 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Keine Beschreibung.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelThe internal arrangements were on the same model. A large hall, with a fire-place, a smaller one for the two staircases: four rooms surrounding these. Every body knows the rest of the place.Out of the four rooms, two were drawing rooms, thrown together with folding-doors, and furnished, tassel for tassel, the same as nine tenths of the drawing-rooms in the parish of Mary-le-bone. Even the ¿owers had a ...

Excerpt from English Fashionables Abroad, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelEven the likeness which she still fancied she could trace, though not identify, was surely not su¿icient ground for either a desire or a sus picion of acquaintance. In thinking, however, of them, her mind involuntarily turned on Lady Mary Norton and on Lord Vanderville, though what reverberation of thought had touched those strings, she could not satisfactorily determine. Other idea...

Excerpt from High Life, a Novel, Vol. 2 of 3: "'Tis From High Life High Characters Are Drawn, "The lovely creature, exclaimed the Count ess, in a tone of rapture.The little angel 1 ejaculated her daughter, kissing the child, who was indeed a perfect beauty, with lips and cheeks red as the coral that hung about its neck, and eyes whose lids.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelBut the question is only, how are we to manage an introduction to her! That's what we are come to ask your advice about.You know, replied Julia, my old maxim, that the straightest line is always the shortest. If Lady Harriet Moreton is so very desirable an acquaintance for you to make, and if, as you say, Lady Weldon is so anxious you should make it, I am sure 'there is hardly a doubt that Sir James wi...

Excerpt from English Fashionables Abroad, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelI wonder who was the fool that first brought travelling into fashion! Said Lord Vanderville, in no very amiable tone of voice, as he vainly endeavoured to regain the comfort able posture from which a sudden, but not unwonted jolt, had just disturbed him. Italian posting and Italian roads would wear out the patience of Job, and the best carriage Leader ever made. - How can you read s...

Excerpt from High Life, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelHere woman reigns, the mother, daughter, Wife, Strews with fresh ¿owers the narrow path of life Around her knees domestic duties meet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from English Fashionables Abroad, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelAnd brightened as they passed the exquisite figures that so richly ornament the church of St. John de Lateran. Those pines of the Villa Pamfili were almost the first objects that had risen to Emily's view'on entering Rome, and they were the last that bounded her horizon as she quitted it, but her prospects in life had been widely changed since she had first beheld them, and, as this...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelProbably it was owing to this unacknowledged speculation that her toilet was so carefully attended to on the morning after Lady Cole raine's ball: she found, too, in the course of the day, a variety of reasons for preferring the front drawing-room to her usual favourite, the library, and even in cutting her pencils, repairing her pens, and performing such other little operations as required the immedia...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel The internal arrangements were on the same model. A large hall, with a fire-place, a smaller one for the two staircases: four rooms surrounding' these. Every body knows the rest of the place. Out of the four rooms, two were drawing rooms, thrown together with folding-doors, and furnished, tassel for tassel, the same as nine tenths of the drawing-rooms in the parish of Mary-le-bone. Even the ¿owers h...

Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Probably it was owing to this unacknowledged speculation that her toilet was so carefully attended to on the morning after Lady Cole raine's ball: she found, too, in the course of the day, a variety of reasons for preferring the front drawing-room to her usual favourite, the library, and even in cutting her pencils, repairing her pens, and performing such other little operations as required the immed...

Excerpt from High Life, a Novel, Vol. 2 of 3: "'Tis From High Life High Characters Are Drawn, " "Your Author treats of loves delights, Of Halycon days, and joyous nights, To the gay fancy lovely themes, And fain I'd hope they're more than dreams." - Cotton. According to a previous arrangement, the Countess of Malverton and Lady Georgiana Granville set out to pay a visit of a few days at Hermitage, the morning after the Vignoles' departure...