Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1852 |
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Page 89
... Molière thought so . ) At the same time with the French dancing- master did our new fellow - pupil arrive , led into the room by her father ; he did not stay five minutes , but that time was long enough to strike Monsieur with a horror ...
... Molière thought so . ) At the same time with the French dancing- master did our new fellow - pupil arrive , led into the room by her father ; he did not stay five minutes , but that time was long enough to strike Monsieur with a horror ...
Page 100
... Molière , and , once plunged into the gay realities of his delightful world , all the miseries of this globe of ours - harp , music - books , practisings , and lessons - were for- gotten ; Miss Essex melted into thin air , “ Ar Hyd y ...
... Molière , and , once plunged into the gay realities of his delightful world , all the miseries of this globe of ours - harp , music - books , practisings , and lessons - were for- gotten ; Miss Essex melted into thin air , “ Ar Hyd y ...
Page 101
... father . At all events , the issue of the affair was the dismissal of the poor little harp - mistress , and a present of a cheap edition of Molière for my own reading . I have got the set still - welve little foreign - A LITERARY LIFE .
... father . At all events , the issue of the affair was the dismissal of the poor little harp - mistress , and a present of a cheap edition of Molière for my own reading . I have got the set still - welve little foreign - A LITERARY LIFE .
Page 102
... Molière , the finest drama that exists ) , down to Claudie , the charming French pastoral , which fell in my way last month . Besides the plays themselves , the history of their writers has always had for me a singular attraction ...
... Molière , the finest drama that exists ) , down to Claudie , the charming French pastoral , which fell in my way last month . Besides the plays themselves , the history of their writers has always had for me a singular attraction ...
Page 206
... Molière him- self , gives a report of a consultation and its conse- quences : If ever I ate a good supper at night , I dreamt of the devil and waked in a fright ; And so as I grew every day worse and worse The doctor advised me to send ...
... Molière him- self , gives a report of a consultation and its conse- quences : If ever I ate a good supper at night , I dreamt of the devil and waked in a fright ; And so as I grew every day worse and worse The doctor advised me to send ...
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