Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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Pagina 32
... ladies in her suite . They were mostly German serving wenches , who performed the duties of nurses , bedchamber- women , cooks , and laundresses . Nearly each of these creatures carried a richly - dressed babe in her arms ; and when ...
... ladies in her suite . They were mostly German serving wenches , who performed the duties of nurses , bedchamber- women , cooks , and laundresses . Nearly each of these creatures carried a richly - dressed babe in her arms ; and when ...
Pagina 33
... lady- in - waiting , the widow of General von Balk . Not only were they the channels through which petitions reached Catha- rine - and probably they did not go unre- warded for their intercession - but Peter formed a suspicion that Mons ...
... lady- in - waiting , the widow of General von Balk . Not only were they the channels through which petitions reached Catha- rine - and probably they did not go unre- warded for their intercession - but Peter formed a suspicion that Mons ...
Pagina 34
... lady , " so fearful , enough to restrain her tears , and not dis- so threatening , so beside himself , that play the slightest emotion . every body was frightened on seeing him come in . He was pale as death , and his eyes flashed and ...
... lady , " so fearful , enough to restrain her tears , and not dis- so threatening , so beside himself , that play the slightest emotion . every body was frightened on seeing him come in . He was pale as death , and his eyes flashed and ...
Pagina 41
... Lady Kew is hardly less worldly , less intrigu- ing , less unprincipled than Becky - indeed she is Becky placed in a different position ; with the same predominant selfishness , the same cynical contempt of goodness , the same resolute ...
... Lady Kew is hardly less worldly , less intrigu- ing , less unprincipled than Becky - indeed she is Becky placed in a different position ; with the same predominant selfishness , the same cynical contempt of goodness , the same resolute ...
Pagina 42
... Lady Clara , whom she would fain have shield- ed from harm , though she would not or could not learn the obvious lesson of her unhappy story - plead on behalf of this miserable creature , in whom Thackeray has sketched , as it never was ...
... Lady Clara , whom she would fain have shield- ed from harm , though she would not or could not learn the obvious lesson of her unhappy story - plead on behalf of this miserable creature , in whom Thackeray has sketched , as it never was ...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40 John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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Pagina 130 - Artesian wells had been opened, around which, as vegetation thrives luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm-trees and one thousand fruit-trees were planted, and two thriving villages established. At the depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two of them live fish have been thrown up, showing that there was a large body of water underneath. The French government, by this means, hopes to make the route across the desert, to Timbuctoo, fertile, and fit...