Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 - 359 Seiten |
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... Miss Wynn's accuracy of recollection , and to shew that her versions of current stories are well authenticated ; as in the case of the Ricketts ' Ghost Story ( p . 222 , note ) . The technical objections to her story of Revenge ' are ...
... Miss Wynn's accuracy of recollection , and to shew that her versions of current stories are well authenticated ; as in the case of the Ricketts ' Ghost Story ( p . 222 , note ) . The technical objections to her story of Revenge ' are ...
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... Miss Frances Williams Wynn , the lady in question , was the daughter of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn ( the fourth baronet ) and Charlotte , daughter of George Grenville ( First Lord of the Treasury , 1763-1765 ) . The uncles to whom she ...
... Miss Frances Williams Wynn , the lady in question , was the daughter of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn ( the fourth baronet ) and Charlotte , daughter of George Grenville ( First Lord of the Treasury , 1763-1765 ) . The uncles to whom she ...
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... Miss Wynn during the last sixteen or seventeen years of her life , and I spoke from personal knowledge when , on a former occasion , I mentioned her as distinguished by her literary taste and acquirements , as well as highly esteemed ...
... Miss Wynn during the last sixteen or seventeen years of her life , and I spoke from personal knowledge when , on a former occasion , I mentioned her as distinguished by her literary taste and acquirements , as well as highly esteemed ...
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... Miss Wynn had been in print . All I could do was to refer to the likeliest repositories , and having done so , boldly to take for granted that what was still new to me would prove new to the majority of readers . As she professedly ...
... Miss Wynn had been in print . All I could do was to refer to the likeliest repositories , and having done so , boldly to take for granted that what was still new to me would prove new to the majority of readers . As she professedly ...
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... 81-88 Anecdotes of Denon 89-91 Early Impressions of Celebrated Men - Pitt , Fox , Lord Wellesley , and Windham 91-96 Imperial and Royal Visitors in 1814 - Visit to Oxford 96-101 PAGE The Stage : Miss Farren , Mrs. Siddons ,
... 81-88 Anecdotes of Denon 89-91 Early Impressions of Celebrated Men - Pitt , Fox , Lord Wellesley , and Windham 91-96 Imperial and Royal Visitors in 1814 - Visit to Oxford 96-101 PAGE The Stage : Miss Farren , Mrs. Siddons ,
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Diaries of A Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844 Frances W. Wynn,A. Hayward Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
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Seite 153 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Seite 367 - The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold ; The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold ; The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers ; The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours.
Seite viii - That if any man were to form a book, of what he had seen or heard himself, it must, in whatever hands, prove a most useful and entertaining one.
Seite 59 - The two Miss Gunnings," and a late extravagant dinner at White's, are twenty times more the subject of conversation than the two brothers and Lord Granville. These are two Irish girls, of no fortune, who are declared the handsomest women alive. I think their being two so handsome and both such perfect figures is their chief excellence, for singly I have seen much handsomer women than either ; however, they can't walk in the park, or go to Vauxhall, but such mobs follow them that they are generally...
Seite 249 - All this is very flattering,' he would say, ' and very civil : and if people are amused with hearing me tell a parcel of old stories, or recite a pack of ballads, to lovely young girls and gaping matrons, they are easily pleased ; and a man would be very illnatured who would not give pleasure so cheaply conferred.
Seite 56 - In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
Seite 50 - I have this day heard from indisputable authority, that I have hitherto lain under a mistake with regard to my age, and that I am but forty-seven to-day. Of the near approach of my death...
Seite 65 - ... her little theatre, and puts in the performers when they are out in their parts; she is a doctor, an apothecary, a surgeon, a farrier, a carpenter, a magistrate, a lawyer...
Seite 209 - God's goodness and compassion through His Son, as what can do them no harm, and may, and I hope will, be of service to them.
Seite 332 - A brief view of the state of the Church of England, as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James his reigne, to the yeere 1608.