The Works of Lady Blessington: The two friends. The repealers. Confessions of an elderly gentlemanE. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838 |
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Página 190 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
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Página 335 - ... as the bowing shopman observed, I was rash enough to conclude my purchases by a necklace of rubies, set in diamonds, requiring ear-rings, brooches, head ornaments, and bracelets, en suite. Thus, instead of the few hundreds I had intended to disburse, I found, on a hasty and reluctant retrospect of my expenditure, that I must have dissipated some thousands; and I consequently returned from...
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Página 340 - I shan't give you that affectionate appellation while you are so odd and so cross. And why am I not to see them, pray ? Surely you do not intend to prevent my associating with my sweet child when she becomes your wife? No, you never could be so cruel." And the old hypocrite laid her hand on my arm in her most fawning manner. " I have no intention, madam, of separating two persons who seem so peculiarly formed for each other.