Customs and Characters: Contemporary Portraits |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 19
Page 3
... social trivia . They fre- quently escape the serious historian . Yet they alone give us a true picture of the situation he describes . How significant that , if the King walked beside Madame de Maintenon's sedan and showed that he ...
... social trivia . They fre- quently escape the serious historian . Yet they alone give us a true picture of the situation he describes . How significant that , if the King walked beside Madame de Maintenon's sedan and showed that he ...
Page 27
... social epoch . ' Anything [ Byron wrote ] that confirms , or extends , one's observations on life and character delights me , even when I don't know people - for this reason I would give the world to pass a month with Sheridan , or any ...
... social epoch . ' Anything [ Byron wrote ] that confirms , or extends , one's observations on life and character delights me , even when I don't know people - for this reason I would give the world to pass a month with Sheridan , or any ...
Page 133
... social sphere . The degree of her wickedness , I think , has very often been exaggerated ; but one or two of the stories current in her lifetime have a horrid ring of truth . It is said , for example , that she deliberately ruined a ...
... social sphere . The degree of her wickedness , I think , has very often been exaggerated ; but one or two of the stories current in her lifetime have a horrid ring of truth . It is said , for example , that she deliberately ruined a ...
Contents
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admired already amusing appeared arrived artist asked attractive Augustus beauty become believed called character charm conversation course Court Daisy daughter death described devoted difficult doubt early effect Elizabeth English enjoyed entered example explain eyes face feelings fellow French garden gifts girl guests hand happy head heard helped human Hythe imaginative impressions interest Italy James John kind knew Lady later learned less literary lived London look lost married meeting moved natural never noticed novel once painted particularly passion perhaps period play poet portrait published reached remained remember resembled Roger romantic Saint-Simon seemed sense showed side social sometimes soon story strange talked thought told took turned Virginia whole wife woman women writing wrote young youth