 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 1074 pàgines
...how to make her presence felt as the soul of life, and life in her absence a dreary day of nothingne She had little true sensibility or generosity (they...becoming from day to day more and more inthralled by the &be semblance. " Is man's heart," he asked himself, " a mere surface, over which one shadow chaseth... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pàgines
...the best scenes. " Without being beautiful, by the help of grace and versatility, and artful adaption of the aids and artifices of the toilet, Miss Ruthven...impulsive friend becoming from day to day more and more enthralled by the false semblance. ' Is man's heart,' he asked himself, ' a mere surface, over which... | |
 | 1836 - 612 pàgines
...the best scenes. " Without being beautiful, by the help of grace and versatility, and artful adaption of the aids and artifices of the toilet, Miss Ruthven...impulsive friend becoming from day to day more and more enthralled by the false semblance. ' Is man's heart,' he asked himself, ' a mere surface, over which... | |
 | 1836 - 598 pàgines
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 | 1844 - 668 pàgines
...as u dreary day of nothingness. Sho had little true sensibility or generosity (they go tocelier) ; but selecting a single object on which to lavish her feeling, like a shallow stream comprcsied into a narrow channel, it mada great show and noise. Eliot stood on disenchanted ground;... | |
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She knew how to infuse into a glance ' thoughts that breathe,' how to play off those flatteries that create an atmosphere of perfume and beauty, how to make her presence felt as the soul of life, and life in her absence a dreary day of nothingness. She... 