The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and Sciences, Том 4Hauer and Company, 1842 |
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... short , the whole court and literary world ; and all in their easiest and most familiar moods : -their words - their looks- their manners - and even their movements about the room- pencilled , as it would seem , with the most minute and ...
... short , the whole court and literary world ; and all in their easiest and most familiar moods : -their words - their looks- their manners - and even their movements about the room- pencilled , as it would seem , with the most minute and ...
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... short , it was the foundation of her fame and her fortune ; and it must be admitted , in excuse for her perseve- rance in this false position , that a retreat would have requir- ed an exertion of nerve and spirit from which even the ...
... short , it was the foundation of her fame and her fortune ; and it must be admitted , in excuse for her perseve- rance in this false position , that a retreat would have requir- ed an exertion of nerve and spirit from which even the ...
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... short her general literature seems to have been very slight ; but she had been so fêtée and flattered as a first - rate author , that we are not at all surprised to find that she expected that the Queen intended to make her a kind of li ...
... short her general literature seems to have been very slight ; but she had been so fêtée and flattered as a first - rate author , that we are not at all surprised to find that she expected that the Queen intended to make her a kind of li ...
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... short time , her dress is finished . She then says she won't detain me , and I hear and see no more of her till bed - time ... At five we have dinner . Mrs. Schwellenberg and I meet in the eating - room ... When we have dined we go ...
... short time , her dress is finished . She then says she won't detain me , and I hear and see no more of her till bed - time ... At five we have dinner . Mrs. Schwellenberg and I meet in the eating - room ... When we have dined we go ...
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... short , this grand affair , which so tor- mented her and so wearies her readers , was from beginning to end a mere mystification — the occasional amusement of the gentleman , but an obstinate and cherished self - delusion on the part of ...
... short , this grand affair , which so tor- mented her and so wearies her readers , was from beginning to end a mere mystification — the occasional amusement of the gentleman , but an obstinate and cherished self - delusion on the part of ...
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